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Triggering Intensity Changes over Time and Space as Measured by Continuous Waveforms in Southern California
  • Huiyun Guo,
  • Emily E. Brodsky,
  • Masatoshi Miyazawa
Huiyun Guo
University of California Santa Cruz

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Emily E. Brodsky
University of California, Santa Cruz
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Masatoshi Miyazawa
Kyoto University
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Abstract

Dynamic triggering of earthquakes is when seismic waves from earthquakes induce seismic activity at a distance. The observability of the seismic wave stresses and their results presents a unique opportunity to understand earthquake interactions and associated hazard implications. The extent and timing of dynamic triggering at given specific stress changes still remain inadequately predicted due to limited studies and datasets. In particular, the requirement for complete, well-characterized catalogs to detect triggering systematically seriously limits the types of studies possible. To address this, we utilized 7-year continuous waveform data from 239 stations in southern California and used PhaseNet for phase picking to identify local earthquakes and measure triggering without constructing any earthquake catalog. We map the triggering intensity over the region and find that overall, the Mojave segment of the San Andreas is the most easily triggered region. However, the spatial pattern changes after the Ridgecrest earthquake and the area becomes much less prone to triggering, likely due to an exhaustion of the faults near failure in the immediate aftermath of the Ridgecrest sequence. We further observe a slow decay rate of dynamic triggering and conclude that low-frequency waves (0.04-0.1 Hz) may be more effective in dynamic triggering than high-frequency waves (1-3 Hz) which is consistent with a rate-state assisted aseismic creep or hydrological triggering mechanism.
26 Jul 2024Submitted to ESS Open Archive
29 Jul 2024Published in ESS Open Archive