| Striations, duration, migration and tidal response in deep tremor. | |
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PMID: 20631797 Owner: NLM Status: PubMed-not-MEDLINE |
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Deep tremor in subduction zones is thought to be caused by small repeating shear slip events on the plate interface with significant slow components. It occurs at a depth of about 30 kilometres and provides valuable information on deep plate motion and shallow stress accumulation on the fault plane of megathrust earthquakes. Tremor has been suggested to repeat at a regular interval, migrate at various velocities and be modulated by tidal stress. Here I show that some time-invariant interface property controls tremor behaviour, using precise location of tremor sources with event duration in western Shikoku in the Nankai subduction zone, Japan. In areas where tremor duration is short, tremor is more strongly affected by tidal stress and migration is inhibited. Where tremor lasts longer, diffusive migration occurs with a constant diffusivity of 10(4) m(2) s(-1). The control property may be the ratio of brittle to ductile areas, perhaps determined by the influence of mantle wedge serpentinization on the plate interface. The spatial variation of the controlling property seems to be characterized by striations in tremor source distribution, which follows either the current or previous plate subduction directions. This suggests that the striations and corresponding interface properties are formed through the subduction of inhomogeneous structure, such as seamounts, for periods as long as ten million years. |
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Authors:
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Satoshi Ide |
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Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't |
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Title: Nature Volume: 466 ISSN: 1476-4687 ISO Abbreviation: Nature Publication Date: 2010 Jul |
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Created Date: 2010-07-15 Completed Date: 2010-08-30 Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0410462 Medline TA: Nature Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 356-9 Citation Subset: - |
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Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan. ide@eps.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp |
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