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Philippe Steer¹, Louise Jeandet², Nadaya Cubas³

¹Univ Rennes, CNRS, Géosciences Rennes - UMR 6118, 35000, Rennes, France. philippe.steer@univ-rennes1.fr.

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A massive 2009 typhoon in Taiwan triggered significant landsliding and erosion. This event led to a measurable increase in shallow earthquake activity, demonstrating a direct link between surface erosion and tectonic processes.

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Area of Science:

Earth Science
Geology
Geophysics

Background:

Earth's surface topography evolves due to tectonic and climate-driven processes.
The influence of topographic change on lithospheric deformation is known, but the scale of this feedback is unclear.
Previous research has not established a direct link between single weather-driven erosion events and tectonic activity.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the impact of a single, extreme weather-driven erosion event on tectonic activity.
To determine if surface processes can influence lithospheric deformation at a small scale.
To provide evidence for the feedback between surface erosion and tectonics.

Main Methods:

Analysis of seismic data following Typhoon Morakot in southern Taiwan (2009).
Quantification of landslide and erosion extent caused by extreme precipitation.
Comparison of earthquake frequency and magnitude scaling before and after the erosion event.

Main Results:

Typhoon Morakot caused exceptional landsliding and erosion in southern Taiwan.
A significant increase in shallow earthquake frequency (depth < 15 km) was observed for at least 2.5 years post-event.
Earthquake magnitude-frequency scaling changed abruptly in areas of intense mass wasting.

Conclusions:

Progressive removal of landslide debris by rivers increased crustal stress rates.
This increase in stress rate demonstrably affected earthquake activity.
This study provides the first evidence linking a single weather-driven erosion event to tectonic effects.