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Isotropic high-frequency radiation in near-fault seismic data
  • Yehuda Ben-Zion,
  • Siyuan Zhang,
  • Xiaofeng Meng
Yehuda Ben-Zion
University of Southern California

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Siyuan Zhang
University of Southern California
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Xiaofeng Meng
Southern California Earthquake Center
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Abstract

We systematically compare Fourier Amplitude Spectra of Fault Normal (FN) and Fault Parallel (FP) seismograms at near-fault sites for 11 strike-slip earthquakes with magnitudes M≥6. For all events we find large FN/FP ratios at low frequencies consistent with the S-wave radiation patterns for strike-slip earthquakes near the faults. However, the difference diminishes with increasing frequency and FN/FP is about 1 above a transition frequency. The results may reflect small-scale isotropic source terms in the earthquake rupture zones that homogenize the high-frequency radiation in different directions at near-fault sites. The FN/FP ratios at low frequencies and transition frequencies above which FN ~ FP vary among the 11 earthquakes, and have no clear correlation with the moment magnitudes. The lack of correlation may signify a characteristic rupture length scale (e.g., process zone size) controlling the isotropic radiation and/or wave propagation and other effects that mask the source effects.
16 May 2024Submitted to ESS Open Archive
21 May 2024Published in ESS Open Archive