Horizontal viscoelastic-gravitational displacement due to a rectangular dipping thrust fault in a layered Earth model

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 13581-13594

  Fernández, José ^a   Yu, Ting To ^b,c   Rundle, John B ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE; FAULT DIP; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; LAYERED EARTH MODEL; THRUST;

EID: 0030446030     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96jb00525     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Bischke, R.E., A model of convergent plate margins based on the recent tectonics of Shikoku, Japan, J. Geophys. Res., 79, 4845-4857, 1974.
2. Cohen, S.C., Postseismic viscoelastic surface deformation and stress, 1, Theoretical considerations, displacement, and strain calculations, J. Geophys. Res., 85, 3131-3150, 1980.
3. Cohen, S. C., Evaluation of the importance of model features for cyclic deformation due to dip-slip faulting, Geophys. J. Int., 119, 831-846, 1994.
4. Cohen, S. C., and M. J. Kramer, Crustal deformation, the earthquake cycle, and models of viscoelastic flow in the asthenosphere, Geophys. J. R. Astron. Soc., 78, 735-750, 1984.
5. Cost, T.L., Approximate Laplace transform inversions in viscoelastic stress analysis, AIAA J., 2 , 2157-2166, 1964.
6. Fernández, J., and J. B. Rundle, Gravity changes and deformation due to a magmatic intrusion in a two-layered crustal model, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 2737-2746, 1994.
7. Fitch, T.J., and C.H. Scholz, Mechanism of underthrusting in southeast Japan: A model of convergent plate interactions, J. Geophys. Res., 76, 7260-7279, 1971.
8. Fung, Y.C., Foundations of Solid Mechanics, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1965.
9. Gilbert, P., and G. Backus, Propagator matrices in elastic wave and vibration problems, Geophysics, 31, 326-332, 1966.
10. Haskell, N.A., The dispersion of surface waves on multilayered media, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am, 43, 421-440, 1953.
11. Longman, I.M., A technique for the numerical solution of geophysical problems, J. Geophys. Res., 83, 5937-5945, 1960.
12. Love, A.E.H., Some Problems in Geodynamics, 180 pp., Cambridge Univ. Press, New York, 1911.
13. Ma, X.Q. and N.J. Kusznir, 3-D subsurface displacement and strain fields for faults and fault arrays in a layered elastic half-space, Geophys. J. Int., 111, 542-558, 1992.
14. Ma, X.Q. and N.J. Kusznir, Modeling of near-field subsurface displacements for generalized faults and fault arrays, J. Struct. Geol., 15, 1471-1484, 1993.
15. Ma, X.Q. and N.J. Kusznir, Effects of rigidity layering, gravity and stress relaxation on 3-D subsurface fault displacement fields, Geophys. J. Int., 118, 201-220, 1994.
16. Matsu'ura, M., and T. Tanimoto, Quasi-static deformations due to an inclined, rectangular fault in a viscoelastic half-space, J. Phys. Earth, 28, 103-118, 1980.
17. Melosh, H.J., and A. Raefsky, Anelastic Response of the Earth to a dip slip erathquake, J. Geophys. Res., 88, 515-526, 1983.
18. Nur, A., and G. Mavko, Postseismic viscoelastic rebound, Science, 183, 204-206, 1974.
19. Rundle, J.B, Viscoelastic crustal deformation of a layered half-space by point couple source, J. Geophys. Res., 83, 5937-5945, 1978.
20. Rundle, J.B., Static elastic-gravitational deformation of a layered half-space by point couple sources, J. Geophys. Res., 85, 5355-5363, 1980.
21. Rundle, J.B., Numerical evaluation of static elastic gravitational deformation in a layered half-space by point couple sources, Rep. 81-2058, Sandia Natl. Lab., Albuquerque, N.M., 1981a.
22. Rundle, J.B., Vertical displacements from a rectangular fault in layered elastic-gravitational media, J. Phys. Earth, 29, 173-186, 1981b.
23. Rundle, J.B., Viscoelastic-gravitational deformation by a rectangular thrust fault in a layered Earth, J. Geophys. Res., 87, 7787-7796, 1982a.
24. Rundle, J.B., Deformation, gravity, and potential changes due to volcanic loading of the crust, J. Geophys. Res., 87, 10729-10744, 1982b.
25. Rundle, J.B., and A.T. Smith, Comment on "Interpretation of postseismic deformation with a viscoelastic relaxation model, by J. Wahr and M. Wyss", J. Geophys. Res., 87, 1079-1080, 1982.
26. Rundle, J.B., and W. Thatcher, Speculations on the nature of the Palmdale uplift, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 70, 1869-1886, 1980.
27. Savage, J.C., Interseismic uplift at the Nankai subduction zone, southwest Japan, 1951-1990, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 6339-6350, 1995.
28. Savage, J.C., and W.H. Prescott, Asthenosphere readjustment and the earthquake cycle, J. Geophys. Res., 83, 3369-3376, 1978.
29. Schapery, R.A., Approximate methods of transform inversion for viscoelastic stress analysis, Proc. U.S. Natl. Congr. Appl. Mech., 4th, 1075-1085, 1961.
30. Smith, A.T., Time dependent strain accumulation and relaxes at Island Arcs: Implications for the 1946 Nankaido Earthquake, Ph.D. dissertation, Mass. Inst of Technol., Cambridge, 1974.
31. Thatcher, W., and J.B. Rundle, A model for the earthquake cycle in underthrust zones, J. Geophys. Res., 84, 5540-5556, 1979.
32. Thatcher, W., and J.B. Rundle, A viscoelastic coupling model for the cyclic deformation due to periodically repeated earthquakes at subdution zones, J. Geophys. Res., 89, 7631-7640, 1984.
33. Thatcher, W., T. Matsuda, T. Kato, and J.B. Rundle, Lithospheric loading by the 1896 Riku-u earthquake, northern Japan: Implications for plate flexure and asthenospheric rheology, J. Geophys. Res., 85, 6429-6435, 1980.
34. Thomson, W.T., Transmission of elastic waves throughout a stratified medium, J. Appl. Phys., 21, 89-93, 1950.
35. Wahr, J., and M. Wyss, Interpretation of postseismic deformation with a viscoelastic relaxation model, J. Geophys. Res., 85, 6471-6477, 1980.
36. Yu, T. T., Crustal deformation due to dipping fault in elastic gravitational layer overlying viscoelastic gravitational half space: Models and applications, Ph.D. dissertation, Univ. of Colo., Boulder, 1995.