Another look at the 1993 and 1995 Gulf of Aqaba earthquakes from the analysis of teleseismic waveforms |
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| Authors: | Ali K Abdel-Fattah H M Hussein S El-Hady |
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| Institution: | (1) National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics Seismology Department, Helwan, 11421 Cairo, Egypt |
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| Abstract: | In this work we estimated the source process and the source parameters of the 1993 and 1995 Gulf of Aqaba earthquakes. To
investigate the source process of both events, we inverted the teleseismic P- and SH-waveform data using an iterative technique in which the rupture is modeled as a series of point source subevents with varying
mechanisms. The main source process of the 1993 event can be explained by two subevents with essentially the same mechanism.
These two subevents had different focal depths. The second subevent was about 5 s later than the first one and about 70% of
the moment rate released with the second one. The total rupture duration time was about 12 s. Our solution for the 1995 Gulf
of Aqaba earthquake indicated that the event consists of three subevents with various fault geometries and about 60% of the
moment released by the second subevent. The first subevent occurred at a depth of 13 km, and was followed after 9 s by the
second one at a depth of 11 km; the third subevent, at a depth of 9 km occurred 19 s after the second one. The total duration
of the earthquake rupture process was about 18.7 s. The obtained mechanisms for the 1993 and 1995 Gulf of Aqaba earthquakes
are well correlated with the structural setting of the Gulf of Aqaba. |
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| Keywords: | Gulf of Aqaba waveform inversion complex rupture tectonics |
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