11:30 AM - 11:45 AM
[SCG62-20] Imaging the distribution of transient viscosity following the 2016 Mw 7.1 Kumamoto earthquake
★Invited papers
Keywords:Rheology, Kumamoto, Geodesy
We present a novel approach to invert for on-fault and off-fault deformation simultaneously using analytical Green’s functions for distributed deformation at depth [Barbot, Moore and Lambert., 2016] and on-fault deformation [Okada 1992, Nikkhoo and Walter 2015]. Using these Green’s functions, we jointly invert InSAR images and GEONET GPS time series following the Kumamoto earthquakes for afterslip and lower-crustal viscoelastic flow.
The calculated strain-rates in the lower crust are directly converted to effective viscosities and we investigate the implications of the effective viscosity structure within an outlier-senstitive Bayesian statistical framework to estimate in-situ parameters, such as temperature. Using our new method, we are able to interrogate the transient deformation in the first few months of the postseismic deformation to obtain these parameters.
The postseismic deformation at Kumamoto brings new insights into the distribution of brittle and ductile crustal processes beneath Japan and can be used to infer lower crustal properties.