Aftershock sequence simulations using synthetic earthquakes and rate-state seismicity formulation |
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| Authors: | Heming Xu Yifeng Cui James H Dieterich Keith Richards-Dinger Efecan Poyraz Dong Ju Choi |
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| Institution: | 1. San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
2. Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA
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| Abstract: | We use an efficient earthquake simulator that incorporates rate-state constitutive properties and uses boundary element method to discretize the fault surfaces, to generate the synthetic earthquakes in the fault system. Rate-and-state seismicity equation is subsequently employed to calculate the seismicity rate in a region of interest using the Coulomb stress transfer from the main shocks in the fault system. The Coulomb stress transfer is obtained by resolving the induced stresses due to the fault patch slips onto the optimal-oriented fault planes. The example results show that immediately after a main shock the aftershocks are concentrated in the vicinity of the rupture area due to positive stress transfers and then disperse away into the surrounding region toward the background rate distribution. The number of aftershocks near the rupture region is found to decay with time as Omori aftershock decay law predicts. The example results demonstrate that the rate-and-state fault system earthquake simulator and the seismicity equations based on the rate-state friction nucleation of earthquake are well posited to characterize the aftershock distribution in regional assessments of earthquake probabilities. |
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| Keywords: | Earthquake simulator Rate-and-state seismicity Aftershock |
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