Stronger Peak Ground Motion, Beyond the Threshold to Initiate a Response, Does Not Lead to Larger Stream Discharge Responses to Earthquakes

Mohr, Christian H.; Manga, Michael; Wald, David

doi:10.1029/2018GL078621

Title: Stronger Peak Ground Motion, Beyond the Threshold to Initiate a Response, Does Not Lead to Larger Stream Discharge Responses to Earthquakes

Journal Article · Thu Jun 21 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Geophysical Research Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL078621· OSTI ID:1479427

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Univ. of Potsdam (Germany). Inst. of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Earth and Planetary Science
U.S. Geological Survey, Golden, CO (United States)

The impressive number of stream gauges in Chile, combined with a suite of past and recent large earthquakes, makes Chile a unique natural laboratory to study several streams that recorded responses to multiple seismic events. Here we document changes in discharge in eight streams in Chile following two or more large earthquakes. In all cases, discharge increases. Changes in discharge occur for peak ground velocities greater than about 7–11 cm/s. Above that threshold, the magnitude of both the increase in discharge and the total excess water do not increase with increasing peak ground velocities. While these observations are consistent with previous work in California, they conflict with lab experiments that show that the magnitude of permeability changes increases with increasing amplitude of ground motion. Instead, our study suggests that streamflow responses are binary.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE; National Science Foundation (NSF)

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OSTI ID:: 1479427

Journal Information:: Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 45, Issue 13; ISSN 0094-8276

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