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Detailed spatiotemporal evolution of microseismicity and repeating earthquakes following the 2012 Mw 7.6 Nicoya earthquake
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica., 2017) Yao, Dongdong; Walter, Jacob; Meng, Xiaofeng; Hobbs, Tiegan; Peng, Zhigang; Newman, Andrew V.; Schwartz, Susan Y.; Protti, Marino
We apply a waveform matching technique to obtain a detailed earthquake catalog around therupture zone of the 5 September 2012 moment magnitude 7.6 Nicoya earthquake, with emphasis on itsaftershock sequence. Starting from a preliminary catalog, we relocate ~7900 events using TomoDD to betterquantify their spatiotemporal behavior. Relocated aftershocks are mostly clustered in two groups. Thefirst isimmediately above the major coseismic slip patch, partially overlapping with shallow afterslip. The secondone is 50 km SE to the main shock nucleation point and near the terminus of coseismic rupture, in a zone thatexhibited little resolvable afterslip. Using the relocated events as templates, we scan through the continuousrecording from 29 June 2012 to 30 December 2012, detecting approximately 17 times more than templateevents. Wefind 190 aftershocks in thefirst half hour following the main shock, mostly along the plateinterface. Later events become more scattered in location, showing moderate expansion in both along-trench and downdip directions. From the detected catalog we identify 53 repeating aftershock clusters withmean cross-correlation values larger than 0.9, and indistinguishably intracluster event locations, suggestingslip on the same fault patch. Most repeating clusters occurred within thefirst major aftershock group. Veryfew repeating clusters were found in the aftershock grouping along the southern edge of the Peninsula,which is not associated with substantial afterslip. Our observations suggest that loading from nearby afterslipalong the plate interface drives spatiotemporal evolution of aftershocks just above the main shock rupturepatch, while aftershocks in the SE group are to the SE of the observed updip afterslip and poorly constrained.
Multiscale postseismic behavior on a megathrust: the 2012 Nicoya earthquake, Costa Rica
(American Geophysical Union, 2015-06-17) Malservisi, Rocco; Schwartz, Susan Y.; Voss, Nicholas; Protti, Marino; Gonzalez, Victor; Dixon, Timothy H.; Jiang, Yan; Newman, Andy V.; Richardson, Jacob; Walter, Jacob I.; Voyenko, Denis
La Península de Nicoya, en el noroeste de Costa Rica, se encuentra sobre una sección del megaembotamiento de subducción a lo largo de la Fosa Mesoamericana. El 5 de septiembre de 2012, un megaembotamiento de magnitud de momento 7,6 se produjo bajo una densa red de estaciones GPS y sísmicas continuas. Muchas de las estaciones GPS registraron el evento a alta frecuencia, 1 Hz o mejor. Analizamos la evolución temporal y espacial de la deformación superficial tras el terremoto. Nuestros resultados muestran que la ruptura principal fue seguida por un deslizamiento posterior significativo dentro de las primeras 3 h posteriores al evento principal. El comportamiento del desplazamiento superficial puede representarse mediante procesos de relajación con tres tiempos característicos: 7, 70 y más de 400 días. Suponemos que el tiempo de relajación largo corresponde a la relajación viscoelástica y el tiempo de relajación intermedio corresponde al deslizamiento posterior en la falla principal. El tiempo de relajación corto puede representar una combinación de deslizamiento posterior rápido, ajuste poroelástico en la corteza superior u otros procesos. Durante los primeros meses posteriores al terremoto, el deslizamiento posterior probablemente liberó una cantidad significativa del déficit de deslizamiento aún presente tras la ruptura cosímica, en particular el buzamiento ascendente de la ruptura. El deslizamiento posterior parece estar limitado por el buzamiento ascendente de las regiones afectadas por deslizamientos lentos previos al terremoto, lo que sugiere que ambos procesos se ven influenciados por diferentes propiedades de fricción.
Persistent tremor within the northern Costa Rica seismogenic zone
(American Geophysical Union Advancing Earth and Space Sciences, 2011-01-13) Walter, Jacob I.; Schwartz, Susan Y.; Protti, Marino; Gonzalez, Victor
We identify tremor using a spectral detection method and characterize its occurrence over a period of four years (2006–2009) in the vicinity of the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica. Although a few major tremor events accompanied by geodetic slow slip occur, much of the tremor record consists of minor episodes with short duration and no detectable geodetic slip. Its persistent occurrence suggests that some portion of the interface is experiencing slow slip nearly continuously driving small patches to fail in accelerated slip. Locations indicate that much of the tremor occurs at shallow depth, in freely slipping regions of the seismogenic zone. This result is significant in that locations of slow slip and tremor at other subduction zones are largely limited to the downdip frictional transition. Tremor locations may help to refine the heterogeneous distribution of locked and freely slipping patches within the Costa Rica seismogenic zone.
Seismogenic zone structure along the middle America trench: results from the Costa Rica seismogenic zone experiment
(IUGG General Assembly, 2003-06-30) Deshon, Heather R.; Schwartz, Susan Y.; Bilek, Susan; Newman, Andrew V.; Dorman, LeRoy; Protti, Marino
Summary of the paper Seismogenic zone structure along the middle america trench: Results fromthe costa rica seismogenic zone experiment
Strain release at the trench during shallow slow slip: The example of Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2017-05-29) Jiang, Yan; Zhen, Liu; Davis, Earl E.; Schwartz, Susan Y.; Dixon, Timothy H.; Voss, Nick; Malservisi, Rocco; Protti, Marino
The near-trench behavior of subduction megathrust faults is critical for understanding earthquake hazard and tsunami generation. The shallow subduction interface is typically located in unconsolidated sediments that are considered too weak to accumulate elastic strain. However, the spectrum of shallow fault slip behavior is still elusive, due in large part to the lack of near-field observations. Here we combine measurements from seafloor pressure sensors near the trench and an onshore GPS network in a time-dependent inversion to image the initiation and migration of a well-documented slow slip event (SSE) in 2007 at the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica. Our results show that the shallow SSE initiated on the shallow subduction interface at a depth of ~15 km, where pore fluid pressure is inferred to be high, and propagated all the way to the trench. The migrating event may have triggered a second subevent that occurred 1 month later. Our results document the release of elastic strain at the shallow part of the subduction megathrust and suggest prior accumulation of elastic strain. In conjunction with near-trench shallow slow slip recently reported for the Hikurangi subduction zone and trench breaching ruptures revealed in some large earthquakes, our results suggest that near-trench strain accumulation and release at the shallower portions of the subduction interface is more common than previously thought.
The synchronous occurrence of shallow tremor and very low frequency earthquakes offshore of the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica
(American Geophysical Union, 2013-03-05) Walter, Jacob I.; Schwartz, Susan Y.; Protti, Marino; Gonzalez, Victor
The occurrence of transient, shallow slow slip at seismogenic zones has important implications for earthquake and tsunami hazards. Here we provide evidence that a tremor and slow slip event occurred at shallow depth offshore of the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica, in August 2008. The temporal coincidence of offshore tremor, very low frequency earthquakes (VLFEs), motions consistent with slow slip on the plate interface on western coastal GPS stations, and a pressure transient in an IODP borehole all indicate slow slip occurring at shallow depths. Large ocean loading stresses on the shallow plate interface modulate tremor activity, with the peak Coulomb stress forced by semi-diurnal ocean tides correlating with tremor productivity. Based on beamforming data, we constrain that the VLFE activity occurs in the same region as the tremor and slow slip. The presence of slow slip at shallow depth has important implications for the up-dip extent of earthquake rupture. The proximity of the 5 September 2012, Mw 7.6 megathrust earthquake to slow slip, tremor, and VLFE activity in the 2008 event suggests abrupt frictional transitions from locked to conditionally stable behavior on the plate interface offshore of the Nicoya Peninsula.