The seismogenic zone of subduction thrust faults

Island Arc

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 244-260

  Hyndman, R D ^a,c   Yamano, M ^b   Oleskevich, D A ^a,c  

^a Geological Survey of Canada Sidney   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Earthquakes; Heat flow; Serpentinite; Subduction; Thermal

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; HEAT FLOW; SERPENTINITE; SUBDUCTION;

EID: 0031399423     PISSN: 10384871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1738.1997.tb00175.x     Document Type: Article

References (83)

1. ANDERSON R. N., UYEDA S. & MIYASHIRO A. 1978. Geophysical and geochemical constraints at converging plate boundaries, Part I: Dehydration in the down-going slab. Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society 44, 333-57.
2. ANDO M. 1975. Source mechanisms and tectonic significance of historical earthquakes along the Nankai Trough. Tectonophysics 27, 119-40.
3. ANDO M. 1982. A fault model of the 1946 Nankaido earthquake derived from tsunami data. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 28, 320-36.
4. ARAUJO M. & SUAREZ G. 1994. Geometry and state of stress of the subducted Nazca plate beneath central Chile and Argentina: Evidence from teleseismic data. Geophysical Journal International 116, 283-303.
5. ASKEW B. L. & ALGERMISSEN S. T. 1994. Catalogue of earthquakes for South America, vol. 1. Description of the Catalogue and National reports, CERESIS, Peru, in Global Hypocentre database, CD-ROM, USGS/NEIC, Version 3.0.
6. ASHI J. 1991. Structure and Hydrogeology of the Nankai Accretionary Prism. PhD thesis, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
7. BARRIENTOS S. E. & PLAFKER G. 1992. Post seismic coastal uplift in southern Chile. Geophysical Research Letters 19, 701-4.
8. BERGMAN I. & SOLOMON S. 1988. Transform fault earthquakes in the North Atlantic: Source mechanisms and depth of faulting. Journal of Geophysical Research 93, 9027-57.
9. BLANPIED M. L., LOCKNER D. A. & BYERLEE J. D. 1991. Fault stability inferred from granite sliding experiments at hydrothermal conditions. Geophysical Research Letters 18, 609-12.
10. BLANPIED M. L., LOCKNER D. A. & BYERLEE J. D. 1995. Frictional slip of granite at hydrothermal conditions. Journal of Geophysical Research 100, 13045-64.
11. BRACE W. F. & BYERLEE J. D. 1970. California earthquakes: Why only shallow focus? Science 168, 1573-75.
12. BYRNE D., DAVIES D. & SYKES L. 1988. Loci and maximum size of thrust earthquakes and the mechanics of the shallow region of subduction zones. Tectonics 7, 833-57.
13. BYRNE T. & FISHER D. 1990. Evidence for a weak and overpressured decollement beneath sediment-dominated accretionary prisms. Journal of Geophysical Research 95, 9081-97.
14. CASSIDY J. F. & ELLIS R. M. 1993. S wave velocity structure of the northern Cascadia subduction zone. Journal of Geophysical Research 98, 4407-21.
15. CHAMLEY H. 1989. Clay Sedimentology. Springer Verlag, New York.
16. CHEN W. P. & MOLNAR P. 1983. Focal depths of intracontinental and intraplate earthquakes and their implication for the thermal and mechanical properties of the lithosphere. Journal of Geophysical Research 88, 4183-214.
17. CHOY G. L. & DEWEY J. W. 1988. Rupture process of an extended earthquake sequence: Teleseismic analysis of the Chilean earthquake of March 3, 1985. Journal of Geophysical Research 93,1103-18.
18. CHRISTENSEN D. H. & BECK S. L. 1994. The rapture process and tectonic implications of the great 1964 Prince William Sound earthquake. Pure and Applied Geophysics 142, 29-53.
19. CHRISTENSEN N. 1966. Elasticity of ultrabasic rocks. Journal of Geophysical Research 71, 5921-31.
20. DAVIES G. & BRUNE J. 1971. Regional and global fault slip rates from seismicity. Nature 229, 101-7.
21. DAVIS E. E. & HYNDMAN R. D. 1989. Accretion and recent deformation of sediments along the northern Cascadia subduction zone. Geological Society of America Bulletin 101, 1465-80.
22. DRAGERT H. & HYNDMAN R. D. 1995. Continuous GPS monitoring of strain in the northern Cascadia subduction zone. Geophysical Research Letters 22, 755-8.
23. DRAGERT H., HYNDMAN R. D., ROGERS G. C. & WANG K. 1994. Current deformation and the width of the seismogenic zone of the northern Cascadia subduction thrust. Journal of Geophysical Research 99, 653-68.
24. FITCH T. J. & SCHOLZ C. H. 1971. Mechanism of underthrusting in southwest Japan: A model of convergent plate interaction. Journal of Geophysical Research 76, 7260-92.
25. FRYER P. 1996. Evolution of the Mariana convergent plate margin system. Reviews of Geophysics 34, 89-125.
26. FRYER P. & FRYER G. J. 1987. Origins of nonvolcanic seamounts in a forearc environment. In: Keating B., Fryer P. & Batiza R. eds. Seamounts, Islands, and Atolls. Geophysical Monograph Series 43, 61-9. American Geophysical Union, Washington.
27. FRYER P., PEARCE J. A., STORKING L. B. et al. 1990. Summary of results from Leg 125. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Reports, 125, 367-80.
28. FUIS G. S. & PLAFKER G. 1991. Evolution of deep structure along the trans-Alaska crustal transect, Chugach Mountains and Copper River basin, southern Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research 96, 4229-53.
29. FYFE W. S., PRICE N. J. & THOMPSON A. B. 1978. Fluids in the Deep Continental Crust. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
30. GOODWIN E. B., Fuis G. S., NOKLEBERG W. J. & AMBOS E. L. 1989. The crustal structure of the Wrangellia Terrane along the East Glenn Highway, Eastern Southern Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research 94, 16037-57.
31. HORINE R. L., MOORE G. F. & TAYLOR B. 1990. Structure of the outer Isu-Bonin forearc from seismic reflection profiling and gravity modelling. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Reports, College Station, TX, 125, 81-91.
32. HOUSE L. & JACOB K. H. 1983. Earthquakes, plate subduction and stress reversals in the eastern Aleutian arc. Journal of Geophysical Research 88, 9347-73.
33. HOWER J., ESLINGER W. V., HOWER M. & PERRY E. A. 1976. Mechanism of burial metamorphism of argillaceous sediments, I. Mineralogical and chemical evidence. Geological Society of America Bulletin 87, 725-37.
34. HUECKEL T., PEANO A. & PELLEGRINI R. 1994. A constitutive law for thermo-plastic behaviour of rocks: An analogy with clays. Surveys in Geophysics 15, 643-71.
35. HUSSONG D. M. & UYEDA S. 1982. Tectonic processes and the history of the Mariana arc: A synthesis from results of DSDP Leg 60. Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, College Station, TX, 60, 909-29.
36. HYNDMAN R. D. & WANG K. 1993. Thermal constraints on the zone of major thrust earthquake failure: The Cascadia subduction zone. Journal of Geophysical Research 98, 2039-60.
37. HYNDMAN R. D. & WANG K. 1995. Constraints on the rupture zone of great earthquakes on the Cascadia subduction thrust from current deformation and the thermal regime. Journal of Geophysical Research 100, 22133-54.
38. HYNDMAN R. D., WANG K. & YAMANO M. 1995. Thermal constraints on the seismogenic portion of the south-western Japan subduction thrust. Journal of Geophysical Research 100, 15373-92.
39. JENNINGS S. & THOMPSON G. R. 1986. Diagenesis of PlioPleistocene sediments of the Colorado River delta, southern California. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology 56, 89-98.
40. JOHNSON J. M., SATAKE K., HOLDAHL S. R. & SAUBER J. 1996. The Prince William Sound earthquake: Joint inversion of tsunami and geodetic data. Journal of Geophysical Research 101, 523-32.
41. KANAMORI H. 1972. Tectonic implications of the 1944 Tonankai and the 1946 Nankaido earthquakes. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 5, 129-39.
42. KISSLING E. & LAHR J. C. 1991. Tomographic image of the Pacific slab under southern Alaska. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 84, 297-315.
43. LOGAN J. & RAUENZAHN J. 1987. Frictional dependence of gouge mixtures of quartz and montmorillonite on velocity, composition and fabric. Tectonophysics 144, 87-108.
44. MARONE C. & SCHOLZ C. 1988. The depth of seismic faulting and the upper transition from stable sliding to unstable slip regimes. Geophysical Research Letters 15, 621-4.
45. MOLNAR P. & ENGLAND P. 1990. Temperatures, heat flux, and frictional stress near major thrust faults. Journal of Geophysical Research 95, 4833-56.
46. MOORE D. E., SUMMERS R. & BYERLEE J. D. 1986. The effects of sliding velocity on the frictional and physical properties of heated fault gouge. Pure and Applied Geophysics 124, 31-52.
47. MOORE D. E., LOCKNER D. A., SHENGLI M., SUMMERS R. & BYERLEE J. D. 1995. Strengths of serpentinite gouges to 200°C (Abstract). EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 76, 632.
48. MOORE J. C., DIEBOLD J., FISHER M. A. et al. 1991. EDGE deep seismic reflection transect of the eastern Aleutian arc-trench layered lower crust reveals underplating and continental growth. Geology 19, 420-4.
49. MOORE J. C. & VROLIJK P. 1992. Fluids in accretionary prisms. Reviews of Geophysics 30, 113-35.
50. OLESKEVICH D. 1996. Thermal Constraints on Great Thrust Earthquake Rupture Zones. MSc thesis, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
51. PACHECO J. F., SYKES L. R. & SCHOLZ C. H. 1993. Nature of seismic coupling along simple plate boundaries of the subduction type. Journal of Geophysical Research 98, 14133-59.
52. PEACOCK S. M. 1993. Metamorphism, dehydration, and the importance of the blueschist-eclogite transition in subducting oceanic crust. Geological Society of America Bulletin 105, 684-94.
53. PETERSON E. T. & SENO T. 1984. Factors affecting seismic moment release rates in subduction zones. Journal of Geophysical Research 89, 10233-48.
54. PLAFKER G. 1969. Tectonics of the March 27, 1964 Alaska earthquake. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 543-1. United States Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California.
55. RAYLEIGH C. B. & PATTERSON M. S. 1968. Experimental deformation of serpentinite and its tectonic implications. Journal of Geophysical Research 70, 3965-85.
56. REINEN L. A. 1995. Microstructural evidence of strain localization and distributed strain in serpentine friction experiments. EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 76, 560.
57. REINEN L. A., WEEKS J. D. & TULLIS T. E. 1991. The frictional behaviour of serpentinite: Implications for aseismic creep on shallow crustal faults. Geophysical Research Letters 18, 1921-4.
58. RUFF L. J. 1989. Do trench sediments affect subduction zone seismicity? In Ruff L. & Kanamori H. eds. Subduction Zones Part II, pp. 263-82. Birkhaser, Basel, Switzerland.
59. RUFF L. J. & KANAMORI H. 1983. Seismic coupling and uncoupling at subduction zones. Tectonophysics 99, 99-117.
60. RUFF L. J. 1994. What controls the seismogenic plate interface in subduction zones. In D. Scholl, G. Bebout & S. Kirby. eds. Proceedings of an Interdisciplinary Conference on the Subduction Process, June 12-17, 1994, Catalina Island California, pp. 103-5. Office of the Chief Geologist, US Geological Survey.
61. SATAKE K. 1993. Depth distribution of coseismic slip along the Nankai Trough, Japan, from joint inversion of geodetic and tsunami data. Journal of Geophysical Research 98, 4553-65.
62. SAVAGE J. C., LISOWSKI M. & PRESCOTT W. H. 1991. Strain accumulation in Western Washington. Journal of Geophysical Research 96, 14493-507.
63. SAVAGE J. C. & PLAFKER G. 1991. Tide gage measurements of uplift along the south coast of Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research 86, 4929-40.
64. SAVAGE J. C. & THATCHER W. 1992. Interseismic deformation at the Nankai Trough, Japan. Journal of Geophysical Research 97, 11117-35.
65. SCHOLZ C. H. 1988. The brittle-ductile transition and the depth of seismic faulting. Geologische Rundschau 77, 319-28.
66. SCHOLZ C. H. 1990. The Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting. Cambridge University Press, New York.
67. SCHOLZ C. H. & CAMPOS J. 1995. On the mechanism of seismic decoupling and back arc spreading at subduction zones. Journal of Geophysical Research 100, 22103-15.
68. SHIMAMOTO T., SENO T. & UYEDA S. 1993. A simple rheological framework for comparative subductology. In Akai K. & Dmowska R. eds. Relating Geophysical Structures and Process: The Jeffreys Volume. Geophysical Monograph Series 76, 39-52. American Geophysical Union, Washington DC.
69. STAUDER W. & BOLLINGER G. A. 1966. The focal mechanism solution of the Alaska earthquake of March 28, 1964, and of its aftershock sequence. Journal of Geophysical Research 71, 5283-96.
70. SUYEHIRO K., TAKAHASH N., ARIIE Y. et al. 1996. Continental crust, crustal underplating, and low-Q upper mantle beneath an oceanic island arc. Science 19, 390-92.
71. TAGGART J. 1994. Catalogue of earthquakes occurring in Alaska, including the Aleutian Arc, 1786-1981. Global Hypocentre database CD-ROM, Version 3.0, USGS/NEIC, United States Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California.
72. TICHELAAR B. W. & RUFF L. J. 1991. Seismic coupling along the Chilean subduction zone. Journal of Geophysical Research 96, 11997-12022.
73. TICHELAAR B. W. & RUFF L. J. 1993. Depth of seismic coupling along subduction zones. Journal of Geophysical Research 98, 2017-37.
74. TSE S. T. & RICE J. R. 1986. Crustal earthquake instability in relation to the depth variation of frictional slip properties. Journal of Geophysical Research 91, 9452-72.
75. VROLIJK P. 1990. On the mechanical role of smectite in subduction zones. Geology 18, 703-7.
76. WANG C. Y. 1980. Sediment subduction and frictional sliding in a subduction zone. Geology 8, 530-3.
77. WANG C. Y. & MAO N. H. 1979. Shearing of rock joints with saturated clays at high confining pressures. Geophysical Research Letters 6, 825-8.
78. WANG K., HYNDMAN R. D. & YAMANO M. 1995a. Thermal regime of the southwest Japan subduction zone: Effects of age history of the subducting plate. Tectonophysics 248, 53-69.
79. WANG K., MULDER T., ROGERS G. C. & HYNDMAN R. D. 1995b. Case for very low coupling stress in the Cascadia subduction thrust fault. Journal of Geophysical Research 100, 12907-18.
80. WIENS D. A. & STEIN S. 1983. Age dependence of oceanic intraplate seismicity and implications for lithosphere evolution. Journal of Geophysical Research 88, 6455-68.
81. WIGGER P. J., SCHMITZ M., ARANEDA M. et al. 1994. Variation in the crustal structure of the Southern Central Andes deduced from seismic refraction investigations. In Reutter K. J., Scheuber E. & Wigger P. J. eds. Tectonics of the Southern Central Andes, pp. 23-48. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
82. WONG I. G. & CHAPMAN D. S. 1990. Deep intraplate earthquakes in the western United States and their relationship to lithospheric temperatures. Seismological Society of America Bulletin 80, 589-99.
83. YABUKI T. & MATSU'URA M. 1992. Geodetic data inversion using a Bayesian information criterion for spatial distribution of fault slip. Geophysical Journal International 109, 363-75.