Fault geometry inversion and slip distribution of the 2010 Mw 7.2 El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake from geodetic data
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- California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Jet Propulsion Lab.
- Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States). Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
- China Earthquake Administration, Beijing (China). State Key Lab. of Earthquake Dynamics. Inst. of Geology
- Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States). Inst. of Geophysics and Planetary Physics. Scripps Inst. of Oceanography
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Earth and Planetary Science. Berkeley Seismological Lab.
The 4 April 2010 Mw 7.2 El Mayor-Cucapah (EMC) earthquake in Baja, California, and Sonora, Mexico, had primarily right-lateral strike-slip motion and a minor normal-slip component. The surface rupture extended about 120 km in a NW-SE direction, west of the Cerro Prieto fault. We use geodetic measurements including near- to far-field GPS, interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR), and subpixel offset measurements of radar and optical images to characterize the fault slip during the EMC event. We use dislocation inversion methods and determine an optimal nine-segment fault geometry, as well as a subfault slip distribution from the geodetic measurements. With systematic perturbation of the fault dip angles, randomly removing one geodetic data constraint, or different data combinations, we are able to explore the robustness of the inferred slip distribution along fault strike and depth. The model fitting residuals imply contributions of early postseismic deformation to the InSAR measurements as well as lateral heterogeneity in the crustal elastic structure between the Peninsular Ranges and the Salton Trough. We also find that with incorporation of near-field geodetic data and finer fault patch size, the shallow slip deficit is reduced in the EMC event by reductions in the level of smoothing. Finally, these results show that the outcomes of coseismic inversions can vary greatly depending on model parameterization and methodology.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE; National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231
- OSTI ID:
- 1480758
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth, Vol. 122, Issue 1; ISSN 2169-9313
- Publisher:
- American Geophysical UnionCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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