1. Focal mechanisms and the stress field in the aftershock area of the 2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake (MJMA = 6.7).
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Susukida, Yuki, Katsumata, Kei, Ichiyanagi, Masayoshi, Ohzono, Mako, Aoyama, Hiroshi, Tanaka, Ryo, Takada, Masamitsu, Yamaguchi, Teruhiro, Okada, Kazumi, Takahashi, Hiroaki, Sakai, Shin'ichi, Matsumoto, Satoshi, Okada, Tomomi, Matsuzawa, Toru, Miyamachi, Hiroki, Hirano, Shuichiro, Yamanaka, Yoshiko, Horikawa, Shinichiro, Kosuga, Masahiro, and Katao, Hiroshi
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EARTHQUAKE aftershocks ,SEISMIC waves ,SEISMIC networks ,EARTHQUAKES ,SEISMOMETERS - Abstract
The tectonic stress field was investigated in and around the aftershock area of the Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake (M
JMA = 6.7) occurred on 6 September 2018. We deployed 26 temporary seismic stations in the aftershock area for approximately 2 months and located 1785 aftershocks precisely. Among these aftershocks, 894 focal mechanism solutions were determined using the first-motion polarity of P wave from the temporary observation and the permanent seismic networks of Hokkaido University, Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), and High Sensitivity Seismograph Network Japan (Hi-net). We found that (1) the reverse faulting and the strike-slip faulting are dominant in the aftershock area, (2) the average trend of P- and T-axes is 78° ± 33° and 352° ± 51°, respectively, and (3) the average plunge of P- and T-axes is 25° ± 16° and 44° ± 20°, respectively: the P-axis is close to be horizontal and the T-axis is more vertical than the average of the P-axes. We applied a stress inversion method to the focal mechanism solutions to estimate a stress field in the aftershock area. As a result, we found that the reverse fault type stress field is dominant in the aftershock area. An axis of the maximum principal stress (σ1 ) has the trend of 72° ± 7° and the dipping eastward of 19° ± 4° and an axis of the intermediate principal stress (σ2 ) has the trend of 131° ± 73° and the dipping southward of 10° ± 9°, indicating that both of σ1 - and σ2 -axes are close to be horizontal. An axis of the minimum principal stress (σ3 ) has the dipping westward of 67° ± 6° that is close to be vertical. The results strongly suggest that the reverse-fault-type stress field is predominant as an average over the aftershock area which is in the western boundary of the Hidaka Collision Zone. The average of the stress ratio R = (σ1 − σ2 )/(σ1 − σ3 ) is 0.61 ± 0.13 in the whole aftershock area. Although not statistically significant, we suggest that R decreases systematically as the depth is getting deep, which is modeled by a quadratic polynomial of depth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2021
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