Spatiotemporal Evolution of Pore Pressure Changes and Coulomb Failure Stress in a Poroelastic Medium for Different Faulting Regimes

Autor: Miao Miao, Shoubiao Zhu, Ying Chang, Jie Yuan, Rui Wang, Peng Han
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Earth and Space Science, Vol 8, Iss 11, Pp n/a-n/a (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2333-5084
DOI: 10.1029/2021EA001837
Popis: Abstract Spatial distribution of aftershocks has been explained by the co‐seismic static Coulomb Failure Stress changes (ΔCFS) to some extent. In practice, the earth's crust is porous medium saturated with fluid filling pores, cavities, cracks, and faults. The pore fluid flow plays an important role in the evolution of the stress field in porous medium of the earth. The ΔCFS can be influenced by the co‐seismic pore pressure changes and the post‐seismic pore fluid flow. In order to understand such impacts, we built 3D fault‐slip finite element models to study the evolution of the pore pressure changes and the ΔCFS based on the fully coupled poroelastic theory. The strike‐slip, reverse, and normal faulting models were investigated separately. The patterns of co‐seismic ΔCFS were similar to the elastic stress changes on a homogeneous half‐space, but there were considerable differences in details especially in the near‐fault area when considering co‐seismic pore pressure change. Due to post‐seismic pore fluid flow, the near‐field stress shadow narrowed gradually in the strike‐slip model. In the reverse faulting model, both the near‐field stress shadow and enhanced areas expanded. In the normal faulting model, the stress shadow near the epicenter reduced. The pore pressure changes decayed sharply at the beginning and then gradually approached to zero because the system evolves to drained conditions. These results can help us to understand the effect of pore fluid flow on Coulomb Failure Stress evolution and might improve the understanding of earthquake triggering and aftershock forecasting.
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