推力地震の断裂が断層を開くかもしれないという実験的証拠
Vahe Gabuchian1, Ares J Rosakis1, Harsha S Bhat2
1Graduate Aerospace Laboratories, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard 105-50, Pasadena, California 91105, USA.
Nature
|May 2, 2017
まとめ
推力断層の大きな地震は 表面の近くで大きな破壊的な滑り込みを引き起こします 新しい実験では 断層を解き放つ"回転メカニズム"を明らかにし 浅い滑りとその壊滅的な影響を説明しています
科学分野:
- * 地震学
- * 構造物理学
- * 地震の断裂の動態
背景:
- * 大きな地震は,推力断層で頻繁に発生し,しばしば潜水地域 (例えば,東北・オキ) または衝突地域 (例えば,チ・チ) で発生します.
- * これらの現象は,表面の近くで大きな滑りを見せ,大きな津波と構造的な損傷をもたらします.
- * 浅い断層は安定していると考えられているため,浅い断層の滑り方を可能にする物理的メカニズムはまだ十分に理解されていません.
研究 の 目的:
- * 推力断層の地表付近の大規模な地震の滑り方に 責任のある理解の浅いメカニズムを調査する.
- * 浅い断層の断層は,大きな地震で大きな移動をどのように容認できるかを明らかにする.
主な方法:
- * 特定の条件下で断層の振る舞いをシミュレートするために物理的な地震破裂実験を利用した.
- * 実験的観測を分析し確認するために補足的な数値モデルを使用した.
主要な成果:
- * 小説を発見
結論:
- * 特定されたトルクメカニズムは,浅い推力断裂をさらに拡大し,これまで考えられていたよりも大きな距離を滑らせます.
- * このメカニズムは,潜水界面の地震発生領域が固定されていないことを意味し,大きな地震の際に溝に拡張することができます.
- この浅い滑りメカニズムの理解は,地震の危険性を評価し,大きな推力断層の損傷を軽減するために不可欠です.
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