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  Modeling Seismic Cycles of Great Megathrust Earthquakes Across the Scales With Focus at Postseismic Phase

Sobolev, S. V., Muldashev, I. (2017): Modeling Seismic Cycles of Great Megathrust Earthquakes Across the Scales With Focus at Postseismic Phase. - Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems (G3), 18, 12, 4387-4408.
https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GC007230

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 Abstract: Subduction is substantially multiscale process where the stresses are built by long-term tectonic motions, modified by sudden jerky deformations during earthquakes, and then restored by following multiple relaxation processes. Here we develop a cross-scale thermomechanical model aimed to simulate the subduction process from 1 min to million years' time scale. The model employs elasticity, nonlinear transient viscous rheology, and rate-and-state friction. It generates spontaneous earthquake sequences and by using an adaptive time step algorithm, recreates the deformation process as observed naturally during the seismic cycle and multiple seismic cycles. The model predicts that viscosity in the mantle wedge drops by more than three orders of magnitude during the great earthquake with a magnitude above 9. As a result, the surface velocities just an hour or day after the earthquake are controlled by viscoelastic relaxation in the several hundred km of mantle landward of the trench and not by the afterslip localized at the fault as is currently believed. Our model replicates centuries-long seismic cycles exhibited by the greatest earthquakes and is consistent with the postseismic surface displacements recorded after the Great Tohoku Earthquake. We demonstrate that there is no contradiction between extremely low mechanical coupling at the subduction megathrust in South Chile inferred from long-term geodynamic models and appearance of the largest earthquakes, like the Great Chile 1960 Earthquake.

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Language(s): eng - English
 Dates: 2017
 Publication Status: Finally published
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 Identifiers: GFZPOF: p3 PT2 Plate Boundary Systems
GFZPOF: p3 PT4 Natural Hazards
DOI: 10.1002/2017GC007230
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Title: Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems (G3)
Source Genre: Journal, SCI, Scopus, oa , OA seit 15. September 2021
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Pages: - Volume / Issue: 18 (12) Sequence Number: - Start / End Page: 4387 - 4408 Identifier: CoNE: https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/cone/journals/resource/journals159