JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2020

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M (Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary) » M-IS Intersection

[M-IS09] Interdisciplinary studies on pre-earthquake processes

convener:Katsumi Hattori(Department of Earth Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Chiba University), Dimitar Ouzounov(Center of Excellence in Earth Systems Modeling & Observations (CEESMO) , Schmid College of Science & Technology Chapman University, Orange, California, USA), Jann-Yenq LIU(Department of Space Science and Engineering, National Central University, Taiwan), Qinghua Huang(Peking University)

[MIS09-11] Relationships between seismogenic areas and crustal vibration before earthquakes

★Invited Papers

*Chieh-Hung Chen1, Yang-Yi Sun1, Strong Wen2, Peng Han3, Li-Ching Lin4 (1.Institute of Geophysics and Geomatics, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China, 2.Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, National Chung Cheng University,Chia-Yi, Taiwan, 3.Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China, 4.Science and Technology Policy Research and Information Center Taiwan, Taipei, Taiwan)

Keywords:Foreshocks, Seismogenic zones, Crustal vibrations, Crustal resonance

Earthquake catalogs with a duration of 10 years in Taiwan and Japan are constructed by using dense seismic arrays that are utilized to determine seismogenic zones in this study. We assume that entire earthquakes are “crack” in the crust. In contrast, earthquakes with relatively-large (M >= 3) magnitude are “break”. The “cracks” occurred within epicentral distances ranging from 0 km to 400 km during a period of 60 days before and after the “beaks” that are utilized to construct spatiotemporal seismicity maps. We superimpose entire spatiotemporal seismicity maps and find that the increase seismicity initially concentrates in the fault zones. The increase seismicity gradually expands outward to over 50 km away from the epicenters approximately 40 days before the “breaks” and become more rapidly around the fault zones approximately 20 days before. These suggest that seismogenic zones, which can be referred to areas with increase seismicity, associated with the “breaks” being more than 50 times to regions of the fault rupture. We compute resonant frequencies of areas with increase seismicity by using a resonant frequency model. Resonant frequencies vary from ~3×10-4 Hz to ~10-3 Hz (i.e., variable frequency) that can be observed along with changes of the areas migrating from exterior areas to approach the fault zones. The variable frequency can also be supported by the observation of continuous seismic waveforms through superimposition processes. These results suggest that the variable frequency of ground vibrations is a function of the areas with increase seismicity leading to earthquakes.