Source Parameters for 1999 North Anatolian Fault Zone Aftershocks |
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Authors: | Rengin Gök Lawrence Hutchings Kevin Mayeda Doğan Kalafat |
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Institution: | (1) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Atmospheric, Earth, and Energy Division, Livermore, CA 94551, USA;(2) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA;(3) Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94702, USA;(4) Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, Istanbul, Turkey |
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Abstract: | We develop a data set of aftershock recordings of the 1999, M = 7.4 Izmit and M = 7.2 Duzce (Turkey) earthquakes to study
their source parameters. We combined seismograms from 44 stations maintained by several sources (organizations) to obtain
a unified data set of events (2.1 ≤ Mw ≤ 5.5). We calculate source parameters of these small earthquakes by two methods that use different techniques to address
the difficulty in obtaining source spectra for small earthquakes subject to interference from site response. One method (program
NetMoment (NM), Hutchings, 2004) uses spectra of direct S waves in a simultaneous inversion of local high-frequency network data to estimate seismic
moment, source corner frequency (fc), site attenuation (k) and whole-path Q. This approach takes advantage of the source commonality in all recordings for a particular earthquake
by fitting a common Brune source spectrum to the data with a and individual k. The second approach (Mayeda et al., 2003) uses the coda method (CM) to obtain “nonmodel-based” source spectra and moment estimates from selected broadband
recording sites. We found that both methods do well for events that allow the comparison with seismic moment estimates derived
from waveform modeling. Also, source spectra obtained from the two methods are very closely matched for most of the events
they have in common. We use an F test to examine the trade-off between k and fc picks identified by the direct S-wave method. About half of the events could be constrained to have less than a 50% average
uncertainty in fc and k. We used these source spectra solutions to calculate energy and apparent stress and compare these to estimates from the selected
“good quality” source spectra from CM. Both studies have values mutually consistent and show a similar increase in apparent
stress with increasing moment. This result has added merit due to the independent approaches to calculate apparent stress.
We conclude that both methods are at least partially validated by our study, and they both have usefulness for different circumstances
of recording local small earthquakes. CM would work well in studies for which there is a broad magnitude range of events and
NM works well for local events recorded by band-limited recorders. |
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Keywords: | Source parameters apparent stress coda attenuation Izmit-Duzce aftershocks Marmara |
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