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标题：Source Parameters of the 2005 Mw 7.2 Miyagi-Oki, Japan, Earthquake as Inferred from Teleseismic P-Waves
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作者：Ruey-Der Hwang ; Tzu-Wei Lin ; Guey-Kuen Yu 等
期刊名称：Terrestrial Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
印刷版ISSN：1017-0839
出版年度：2010
卷号：21
期号：4
页码：645-653
DOI：10.3319/TAO.2009.08.25.01(T)
出版社：Chinese Geoscience Union
摘要：We investigate the fault parameters of the 2005 Miyagi-Oki (Japan) earthquake using duration variations of teleseismic P -waves. The results show that the earthquake has a thrust-type mechanism and a seismic moment of 4.46 × 10 19 Nm. Rupture directivity analysis suggests that the earthquake occurred as a result of a bilateral faulting on the fault plane with a strike of 247°, a dip of 17° and a slip of 125°. The optimal rupture azimuth, measured counterclockwise from the strike on the fault plane, is 170° (or 350°). The rupture length and average source duration are estimated to be 73.4 km and 14.5 sec, respectively. Thus the rupture velocity is 2.53 km sec -1 (~0.57 times the value of S-wave velocity), which is lower than the value for other similarly sized earthquakes. This implies that the 2005 Miyagi-Oki earthquake was probably a slow event. Consequently, there may have been less release of high-frequency seismic energy, leading to lower radiated seismic energy and radiation efficiency (~0.32 - 0.48). In other words, relatively larger fracture energy occurred during earthquake faulting in addition to the heat due to friction. The ratio of the static stress drop to the apparent stress (> 2.0) also suggests that the earthquake can be modeled as a frictional overshoot in a stress model, which implies the transformation of a lower percentage of strain energy into seismic-wave energy during the process of earthquake rupturing.
关键词：Source duration; Rupture directivity; Bilateral faulting; Radiated seismic energy; Radiation efficiency; Fracture energy;