Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2023

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[J] Online Poster

S (Solid Earth Sciences ) » S-GD Geodesy

[S-GD02] Crustal Deformation

Wed. May 24, 2023 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM Online Poster Zoom Room (11) (Online Poster)

convener:Masayuki Kano(Graduate school of science, Tohoku University), Tadafumi Ochi(Institute of Earthquake and Volcano Geology, Geological Survey of Japan, The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology), Fumiaki Tomita(International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University)

On-site poster schedule(2023/5/23 17:15-18:45)

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM

[SGD02-P09] Coseismic crustal deformations and gravity changes of the 2018 Fiji deep-focus earthquake

*Yusaku Tanaka1 (1.Earthquake and Volcano Research Center Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University)

Keywords:Coseismic gravity changes, 2018 Fiji deep-focus earthquake, GRACE, GRACE-FO

Here I will introduce my peer-reviewed report published in January 2023.

[paper]
Tanaka, Y. (2023) Coseismic Gravity Changes and Crustal Deformation Induced by the 2018 Fiji Deep-Focus Earthquake Observed by GRACE and GRACE-FO Satellites, Remote Sens. 15(2), 495, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15020495

[abstract of this paper]
Earthquakes at depths of 300 km or deeper are generally called deep-focus earthquakes. Only two deep-focus earthquakes with Mw 8.0 or more have occurred in this century; the 2013 Okhotsk earthquake (Mw 8.3) and the 2018 Fiji earthquake (Mw 8.2) on 19 August 2018. However, the 2018 Fiji earthquake was only reported on seismographs, and the related crustal deformations were not observed by the Global Navigation Satellite System because the observation network did not exist around the epicenter. This study analyzed the time series of gravity data observed by the Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment (GRACE) and its successor, GRACE Follow-On, and detected the spatial distribution of coseismic gravity changes mainly due to crustal deformation by the 2018 Fiji earthquake. The results in this study were not consistent with the numerical calculation of gravity changes when using the fault parameters estimated by the data of seismic waves. Thus, numerical calculations were used to construct a uniform slip rectangle fault model to explain coseismic gravity changes and provide a spatial distribution map of crustal deformation. However, this fault model is only based on gravity changes; thus, new research combining satellite gravimetry and seismic wave data will be necessary in the future.