日本地球惑星科学連合2018年大会

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セッション記号 S (固体地球科学) » S-CG 固体地球科学複合領域・一般

[S-CG53] Science of slow earthquakes: Toward unified understandings of whole earthquake process

2018年5月23日(水) 15:30 〜 17:00 ポスター会場 (幕張メッセ国際展示場 7ホール)

コンビーナ:井出 哲(東京大学大学院理学系研究科地球惑星科学専攻)、廣瀬 仁(神戸大学都市安全研究センター)、氏家 恒太郎(筑波大学生命環境系、共同)、波多野 恭弘(東京大学地震研究所)

[SCG53-P02] Strength of tremor patches along deep transition zone of a megathrust

*加納 将行1,2加藤 愛太郎2安藤 亮輔3小原 一成2 (1.東北大学理学研究科、2.東京大学地震研究所、3.東京大学理学系研究科)

キーワード:Slow earthquakes、Tremor、Western Shikoku

Deep low frequency tremors are indicators of slow slip transients in the brittle-ductile transition zone along subducting plates. Investigation of comprehensive tremor activities is therefore an important issue for understanding the seismic/aseismic characteristics in transition zones. Here, we focus on the radiated energy from tremors to reveal the along-strike heterogeneity in the strength of tremor patches. Based on a tremor catalog that more accurately evaluates radiated energy (Annoura et al. 2016), we examine the spatio-temporal activities of tremors accompanied by slow slip events in western Shikoku, southwestern Japan. The new findings of this analysis is that the energy radiation of tremor is positively correlated with the migration speed and slip velocity inferred from tilt records (Hirose and Obara, 2010). This can be qualitatively explained by a stress diffusion model (Ando et al., 2012) consisting of along-strike heterogeneities in the effective strength of tremor patches within a background ductile shear zone. This strength contrast is supported by a lateral variation in the stress drop; it is consistent with the fluid pressure distribution along the plate boundary fault (Nakajima and Hasegawa, 2016) and the tidal sensitivity of tremors (Ide, 2010). Accurate evaluation of tremor activities, especially the radiated energy, can be used to infer the spatial distribution of the strength of tremor patches in the worldwide transition zones.



Acknowledgments

We used a tremor catalog downloaded from ‘Slow Earthquake Database’ (Kano, Aso et al., 2017, AGU) (http://www-solid.eps.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~sloweq/), which is supported by JSPS KAKENHI JP16H06472. This research was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP16H06473 in Scientific Research on Innovative Areas “Science of Slow Earthquakes”.