Precursory Tidal Triggering of the 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku Aftershocks

Autor: Chaodi Xie, Ye Zhu, Yingfeng Ji, Weiling Zhu, Rui Qu
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Applied Sciences, Vol 12, Iss 17, p 8730 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2076-3417
DOI: 10.3390/app12178730
Popis: Precursory earth tidal triggering is believed to influence earthquake timing preferentially when a region is critically stressed. However, whether and how the recurrence of aftershocks after a giant earthquake is affected by tidal triggering remains perplexing. To provide insight into this study, we utilized the Schuster test to explore the tidally induced stress variation correlated with the 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku earthquake aftershock sequence by determining the tidal phase angle at the occurrence time of events and the periodic characteristics of the aftershocks. Our results show that the aftershocks were triggered by short-period tides, including semidiurnal and diurnal tides. The rupture associated with the mainshock likely resulted in a critical stress state in the focal region, which is conducive to tidal triggering. We subdivided the aftershock catalog into several subsets, using a depth of 30 km and a magnitude of 5 as discriminators. The analysis of these subsets reveals that weaker and deeper earthquakes are best correlated with Earth tides, which will be helpful to investigate the mechanisms of tidal correlation.
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