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DOI	10.1029/2020JB019981
	New Megathrust Locking Model for the Southern Kurile Subduction Zone Incorporating Viscoelastic Relaxation and Non-Uniform Compliance of Upper Plate
	Itoh Y.; Nishimura T.; Wang K.; He J.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	21699313
卷号	126 期号:5
英文摘要	Dense Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) observations enable the development of megathrust interseismic locking models for the southern Kurile subduction zone where many great earthquakes have occurred. Inversion of these data assuming uniform elastic Earth has yielded slip deficit rates that are unreasonably high and/or full locking depth that is unreasonably large. Using the finite element method, here we construct a new Kurile locking model that includes interseismic viscoelastic stress relaxation and non-uniform compliance of the elastic upper plate. Inverting the same geodetic data using the new subduction zone model alleviates the previously seen unreasonable features in inferred megathrust locking state. In the new model, full locking extends to shallower depths than the downdip limit of some large megathrust earthquakes including the 2003 Mw 8.0 Tokachi-oki earthquake, supporting the notion of the shrinking of the locked area before the earthquakes and/or propagation of seismic rupture into creeping areas as previously predicted by friction or dynamic rupture models. By modeling the effects of a few recent M 8 earthquakes, we show that postseismic transients of recent earthquakes, although second-order, should be addressed in deriving megathrust locking models. The locking state near the trench cannot be resolved by the land-based GNSS data regardless of the improved model rheology and structure, although independent observations, such as slow earthquakes, may be used to speculate on the near-trench locking state in various part of the margin in the absence of seafloor geodetic observations. © 2021. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved.
英文关键词	GNSS; interseismic deformation; mechanically heterogeneous crust; megathrust locking; southern Kurile; viscoelastic relaxation
语种	英语
来源期刊	Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/187108
作者单位	Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Uji, Japan; Now at Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Uji, Japan; Pacific Geoscience Centre, Geological Survey of Canada, Sidney, BC, Canada
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Itoh Y.,Nishimura T.,Wang K.,et al. New Megathrust Locking Model for the Southern Kurile Subduction Zone Incorporating Viscoelastic Relaxation and Non-Uniform Compliance of Upper Plate[J],2021,126(5).
APA	Itoh Y.,Nishimura T.,Wang K.,&He J..(2021).New Megathrust Locking Model for the Southern Kurile Subduction Zone Incorporating Viscoelastic Relaxation and Non-Uniform Compliance of Upper Plate.Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth,126(5).
MLA	Itoh Y.,et al."New Megathrust Locking Model for the Southern Kurile Subduction Zone Incorporating Viscoelastic Relaxation and Non-Uniform Compliance of Upper Plate".Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 126.5(2021).