JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2017

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[JJ]Eveningポスター発表

セッション記号 S (固体地球科学) » S-SS 地震学

[S-SS16] [JJ] 地殻構造

2017年5月24日(水) 17:15 〜 18:30 ポスター会場 (国際展示場 7ホール)

[SSS16-P05] レシーバ関数による大和海盆下のリソスフェア構造推定

*悪原 岳1,2中東 和夫3篠原 雅尚2山田 知朗2山下 裕亮4塩原 肇2望月 公廣2 (1.Now at Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, University of British Columbia、2.東京大学地震研究所、3.東京海洋大学、4.京都大学防災研究所)

キーワード:リソスフェア構造、海底地震計、レシーバ関数解析

Large earthquakes have occurred around the Japan Sea, including the 2007 Chuetsu-oki Earthquake. To estimate the risk of potential earthquakes and tsunami, better understanding of the lithosphere structure beneath the Japan Sea is an issue of importance. Revealing the lithosphere structure would also help constrain the formation process of the Japan Sea, which has been considered due to back-arc opening. In this study, we conducted receiver function analysis using broad-band ocean-bottom seismometers (BBOBS) installed at the Yamato Basin from 2013 to 2016. The final goal of this study is to detect a lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary (LAB), which provides fundamental information of the oceanic plate i.e., thickness of the lithosphere. Teleseismic P waveforms recorded by horizontal sensors at offshore sites are significantly affected by multiple reflections and conversions within the sediment layer beneath the seafloor. These multiple phases have potential to overprint signals from the LAB. We, therefore, first estimated shallow (< 20 km) crustal velocity structure from receiver function waveform inversion. Then we searched for the depth and contrast of the LAB which can better explain observed waveforms than any structure models without the LAB. As a result, we acquired good waveform fitting with only the shallow crustal structure. We also found that the LAB located at 70 km depth can improve the waveform fitting. Unfortunately, we could not identify LAB-related signals visually due to dominating sediment reverberations. Statistical approach is left for future studies to confirm whether this improvement in the waveform fitting truly represents the existence of the LAB or not.