Afterslip Enhanced Aftershock Activity During the 2017 Earthquake Sequence Near Sulphur Peak, Idaho
Abstract
An energetic earthquake sequence occurred during September to October 2017 near Sulphur Peak, Idaho. The normal–faulting Mw 5.3 mainshock of 2 September 2017 was widely felt in Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming. Over 1,000 aftershocks were located within the first 2 months, 29 of which had magnitudes ≥4.0 ML. High–accuracy locations derived with data from a temporary seismic array show that the sequence occurred in the upper (<10 km) crust of the Aspen Range, east of the northern section of the range–bounding, west–dipping East Bear Lake Fault. Moment tensors for 77 of the largest events show normal and strike–slip faulting with a summed aftershock moment that is 1.8–2.4 times larger than the mainshock moment. Here, we propose that the unusually high productivity of the 2017 Sulphur Peak sequence can be explained by aseismic afterslip, which triggered a secondary swarm south of the coseismic rupture zone beginning ~1 day after the mainshock.
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- Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (United States)
- U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO (United States)
- Saint Louis Univ., St. Louis, MO (United States)
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Univ. of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA (United States)
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- Research Org.:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- U.S. Geological Survey; USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1440499
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-18-22721
Journal ID: ISSN 0094-8276
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC52-06NA25396; G15AC00028
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Geophysical Research Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 45; Journal Issue: 11; Journal ID: ISSN 0094-8276
- Publisher:
- American Geophysical Union
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 58 GEOSCIENCES; Earth Sciences; earthquake seismology, seismic hazard, aftershocks
Citation Formats
Koper, Keith D., Pankow, Kristine L., Pechmann, James C., Hale, J. Mark, Burlacu, Relu, Yeck, William L., Benz, Harley M., Herrmann, Robert B., Trugman, Daniel Taylor, and Shearer, Peter M. Afterslip Enhanced Aftershock Activity During the 2017 Earthquake Sequence Near Sulphur Peak, Idaho. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1029/2018GL078196.
Koper, Keith D., Pankow, Kristine L., Pechmann, James C., Hale, J. Mark, Burlacu, Relu, Yeck, William L., Benz, Harley M., Herrmann, Robert B., Trugman, Daniel Taylor, & Shearer, Peter M. Afterslip Enhanced Aftershock Activity During the 2017 Earthquake Sequence Near Sulphur Peak, Idaho. United States. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL078196
Koper, Keith D., Pankow, Kristine L., Pechmann, James C., Hale, J. Mark, Burlacu, Relu, Yeck, William L., Benz, Harley M., Herrmann, Robert B., Trugman, Daniel Taylor, and Shearer, Peter M. Tue .
"Afterslip Enhanced Aftershock Activity During the 2017 Earthquake Sequence Near Sulphur Peak, Idaho". United States. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL078196. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1440499.
@article{osti_1440499,
title = {Afterslip Enhanced Aftershock Activity During the 2017 Earthquake Sequence Near Sulphur Peak, Idaho},
author = {Koper, Keith D. and Pankow, Kristine L. and Pechmann, James C. and Hale, J. Mark and Burlacu, Relu and Yeck, William L. and Benz, Harley M. and Herrmann, Robert B. and Trugman, Daniel Taylor and Shearer, Peter M.},
abstractNote = {An energetic earthquake sequence occurred during September to October 2017 near Sulphur Peak, Idaho. The normal–faulting Mw 5.3 mainshock of 2 September 2017 was widely felt in Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming. Over 1,000 aftershocks were located within the first 2 months, 29 of which had magnitudes ≥4.0 ML. High–accuracy locations derived with data from a temporary seismic array show that the sequence occurred in the upper (<10 km) crust of the Aspen Range, east of the northern section of the range–bounding, west–dipping East Bear Lake Fault. Moment tensors for 77 of the largest events show normal and strike–slip faulting with a summed aftershock moment that is 1.8–2.4 times larger than the mainshock moment. Here, we propose that the unusually high productivity of the 2017 Sulphur Peak sequence can be explained by aseismic afterslip, which triggered a secondary swarm south of the coseismic rupture zone beginning ~1 day after the mainshock.},
doi = {10.1029/2018GL078196},
journal = {Geophysical Research Letters},
number = 11,
volume = 45,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue May 29 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Tue May 29 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}
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Figure 1: (a) Seismicity in the University of Utah Seismograph Stations event catalog from 1 January 1981 through 31 December 2017. Most of the earthquakes are concentrated within the Intermountain Seismic Belt (ISB), which is the 100-200-km-wide zone of seismicity trending south-southwest to north-northeast near the center of the mapmore »
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