Slow slip transients along the Oaxaca subduction segment from 1993 to 2007

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 523-538

  Brudzinski, M ^a   Cabral Cano, E ^b   Correa Mora, F ^c   Demets, Chuck ^c   Marquez Azua B ^d  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GUADALAJARA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Aseismic transient; Middle America trench; Subduction

Indexed keywords

DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; GEOPHYSICAL ARRAY; GPS; SEISMOMETRY; SLIP; SUBDUCTION ZONE; THRUST; TRENCH;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; OAXACA;

EID: 35348836589     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03542.x     Document Type: Article

References (57)

1. Altamimi, Z., Sillard, P. & Boucher, C., 2002. ITRF2000: A new release of the International Terrestrial Reference Frame for earth science applications, J. Geophys. Res., 107, doi:.
2. Anderson, D.L., 1989. Theory of the Earth, Blackwell Sci. Pub., Boston.
3. Astiz, L. & Kanamori, H., 1984. An earthquake doublet in Ometepec, Guerrero, Mexico, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 34, 24-45.
4. Bassin, C., Laske, G. & Masters, G., 2000. The current limits of resolution for surface wave tomography in North America, EOS Trans. AGU, 81, F897.
5. Beck, J.L. & Hall, J.F., 1986. Factors contributing to the catastrophe in Mexico City during the earthquake of September 19, 1985, Geophys. Res. Lett., 13, 593-596.
6. Brudzinski, M.R. & Allen, R.M., 2006. Segmentation in Episodic Tremor and Slip All Along Cascadia (Abstract), Eos, 87, T53G -05.
7. Brudzinski, M.R., Cabral-Cano, E., Arciniega-Ceballos, A., DeMets, C., Diaz-Molina, O. & Apgar, C., 2007. Preliminary evidence for non-volcanic tremor in the Oaxaca region, Mexico (Abstract), Eos, 88, G31A -02.
8. Calais, E., Han, J. Y., DeMets, C. & Nocquet, J. M., 2006. Deformation of the North American plate interior from a decade of continuous GPS measurements, J. Geophys. Res., 111, B06402, doi:.
9. Courboulex, F., Santoyo, M.A., Pacheco, J.F. & Singh, S.K., 1997. The 14 September 1995(M = 7.3) Copala, Mexico, earthquake: A source study using teleseismic, regional, and local data, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 87, 999-1010.
10. DeMets, C., 2001. A new estimate for present-day Cocos-Caribbean plate motion: Implications for slip along the Central American volcanic arc, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 4043-4046.
11. DeMets, C., Brudzinski, M., Cabral, E., Márquez-Azúa, B. & Correa-Mora, F., 2004. Large-scale seismic and aseismic deformation patterns associated with subduction: Constraints from continuous GPS measurements in Mexico (Abstract), Eos, 85.
12. Douglas, A., Beavan, J., Wallace, L. & Townend, J., 2005. Slow slip on the northern Hikurangi subduction interface, New Zealand, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32.
13. Dragert, H., Wang, K.L. & James, T.S., 2001. A silent slip event on the deeper Cascadia subduction interface, Science, 292, 1525-1528.
14. Engdahl, E.R., Van Der Hilst, R.D. & Buland, R.P., 1998. Global teleseismic earthquake relocation with improved travel times and procedures for depth determination, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 88, 722-743.
15. Engdahl, E.R. & Villasenor, A., 2002. Global Seismicity: 1900-1999, in International Handbook of Earthquake and Engineering Seismology, Part A, Chapter 41, pp. 665-690, eds Lee, W.H.K., Kanamori, H., Jennings, P.C. & Kisslinger, C., Academic Press, Amsterdam.
16. Franco, S.I., Kostoglodov, V., Larson, K.M., Manea, V.C., Manea, M. & Santiago, J.A., 2005. Propagation of the 2001-2002 silent earthquake and interplate coupling in the Oaxaca subduction zone, Mexico, Earth Planets Space, 57, 973-985.
17. Hansen, P. C., 1992, Analysis of discrete ill-posed problems by means of the L-curve, SIAM Rev., 34, 561-580.
18. Heflin, M. et al., 1992. Global geodesy using GPS without fiducial sites, Geophys. Res. Lett., 19, 131-134.
19. Holtkamp, S., Brudzinski, M.R. & DeMets, C., 2006. Determination of slow slip episodes and strain accumulation along the Cascadia Margin (Abstract), Eos, 87, T41A -1541.
20. Hyndman, R.D. & Wang, K., 1993. Thermal constraints on the zone of major thrust earthquake failure; the Cascadia subduction zone, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 2039-2060.
21. Iglesias, A., Singh, S. K., Lowry, A. R., Santoyo, M., Kostoglodov, V., Larson, K. M. & Franco-Sánchez, S. I., 2004. The silent earthquake of 2002 in the Guerrero seismic gap, Mexico (M w = 7.6): inversion of slip on the plate interface and some implications, Geofísica Int., 43, 309-317.
22. Isacks, B., Oliver, J. & Sykes, L.R., 1968. Seismology and the new global tectonics, J. Geophys. Res., 73, 5855-5899.
23. Kanamori, H., 1977. Seismic and aseismic slip along subduction zones and their tectonic implications, in Island Arcs, Deep Sea Trenches and Back-Arc Basins, Maurice Ewing Ser., pp. 163-174, eds Talwani, M. & Pitman, W., III. AGU, Washington, DC.
24. Kodaira, S., Iidaka, T., Kato, A., Park, J.O., Iwasaki, T. & Kaneda, Y., 2004. High pore fluid pressure may cause silent slip in the Nankai Trough, Science, 304, 1295-1298.
25. Kostoglodov, V., Bandy, W., Dominguez, J. & Mena, M., 1996. Gravity and seismicity over the Guerrero seismic gap, Mexico, Geophys. Res. Lett., 23, 3385-3388.
26. Kostoglodov, V. & Ponce, L., 1994. Relationship between subduction and seismicity in the Mexican part of the Middle America Trench, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 729-742.
27. Kostoglodov, V., Singh, S.K., Santiago, J.A., Franco, S.I., Larson, K.M., Lowry, A.R. & Bilham, R., 2003. A large silent earthquake in the Guerrero seismic gap, Mexico, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30.
28. Larson, K.M., Lowry, A.R., Kostoglodov, V., Hutton, W., Sanchez, O., Hudnut, K. & Suarez, G., 2004. Crustal deformation measurements in Guerrero, Mexico, J. Geophys. Res., 109, B04409, doi:.
29. Lawson, C. L. & Hanson, R. J., 1974, Solving Least-Squares Problems, Prentice-Hall, Inic., Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
30. Linde, A.T. & Silver, P.G., 1989. Elevation changes and the great 1960 Chilean earthquake; support for aseismic slip, Geophys. Res. Lett., 16, 1305-1308.
31. Lowry, A. R., 2006. Resonant slow fault slip in subduction zones forced by climatic load stress, Nature, 442, 802-805, doi:.
32. Lowry, A.R., Larson, K.M., Kostoglodov, V. & Bilham, R., 2001. Transient fault slip in Guerrero, southern Mexico, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 3753-3756.
33. Manea, V.C., Manea, M., Kostoglodov, V., Currie, C.A. & Sewell, G., 2004. Thermal structure, coupling and metamorphism in the Mexican subduction zone beneath Guerrero, Geophys. J. Int., 158, 775-784.
34. Marquez-Azua, B. & DeMets, C., 2003. Crustal velocity field of Mexico from continuous GPS measurements, 1993 to June 2001: Implications for the neotectonics of Mexico, J. Geophys. Res., 108, doi:.
35. Mazzotti, S. & Adams, J., 2004. Variability of near-term probability for the next great earthquake on the Cascadia subduction zone, Bull. seism. Soc. Am., 94, 1954-1959.
36. McGuire, J.J. & Segall, P., 2003. Imaging of aseismic fault slip transients recorded by dense geodetic networks, Geophys. J. Int., 155, 778-788.
37. Miller, M.M., Melbourne, T., Johnson, D.J. & Sumner, W.Q., 2002. Periodic slow earthquakes from the Cascadia subduction zone, Science, 295, 2423.
38. Obara, K., 2002. Nonvolcanic deep tremor associated with subduction in southwest Japan, Science, 296, 1679-1681.
39. Ohta, Y., Freymueller, J.T., Hreinsdottir, S. & Suito, H., 2006. A large slow slip event and the depth of the seismogenic zone in the south central Alaska subduction zone, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 247, 108-116.
40. Ozawa, S., Hatanaka, Y., Kaidzu, M., Murakami, M., Imakiire, T. & Ishigaki, Y., 2004. Aseismic slip and low-frequency earthquakes in the Bungo channel, southwestern Japan, Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L07609, doi:.
41. Ozawa, S., Murakami, M., Kaidzu, M., Tada, T., Sagiya, T., Hatanaka, Y., Yarai, H. & Nishimura, T., 2002. Detection and monitoring of ongoing aseismic slip in the Tokai region, central Japan, Science, 298, 1009-1012.
42. Pacheco, J.F., Sykes, L.R. & Scholz, C.H., 1993. Nature of seismic coupling along simple plate boundaries of the subduction type, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 14133-14159.
43. Pardo, M. & Suarez, G., 1995. Shape of the subducted Rivera and Cocos plates in southern Mexico: Seismic and tectonic implications, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 12357-12373.
44. Payero, J.S., Kostoglodov, V., Mikumo, T., Perez-Campos, X., Iglesias, A. & Clayton, R., 2007. Nonvolcanic tremors in the Mexican subduction zone (Abstract), Eos, 88, G33A -07.
45. Pritchard, M.E. & Simons, M., 2006. An aseismic slip pulse in northern Chile and along-strike variations in seismogenic behavior, J. Geophys. Res., 111.
46. Rogers, G. & Dragert, H., 2003. Episodic tremor and slip on the Cascadia subduction zone: The chatter of silent slip, Science, 300, 1942-1943.
47. Segall, P. & Matthews, M., 1997. Time dependent inversion of geodetic data, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 22 391-22 409.
48. Shen, Z.K., Wang, Q.L., Burgmann, R., Wan, Y.G. & Ning, J.Y., 2005. Pole-tide modulation of slow slip events at circum-Pacific subduction zones, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 95, 2009-2015.
49. Singh, S.K., Pacheco, J., Courboulex, E. & Novelo, D.A., 1997. Source parameters of the Pinotepa Nacional, Mexico, earthquake of 27 March, 1996 (M-w = 5.4) estimated from near-field recordings of a single station, J. Seismol., 1, 39-45.
50. Suárez, G., Monfret, T., Wittlinger, G. & David, C., 1990. Geometry of subduction and depth of the seismogenic zone in the Guerrero, Mexico, Nature, 345, 336-338.
51. Suarez, G. & Sanchez, O., 1996. Shallow depth of seismogenic coupling in southern Mexico: Implications for the maximum size of earthquakes in the subduction zone, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 93, 53-61.
52. Szeliga, W., Melbourne, T.I., Miller, M.M. & Santillan, V.M., 2004. Southern Cascadia episodic slow earthquakes, Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L16602, doi:.
53. Tajima, F. & McNally, K.C., 1983. Seismic rupture patterns in Oaxaca, Mexico, J. Geophys. Res., 88, 4263-4275.
54. Thatcher, W., 1982. Seismic triggering and earthquake prediction, Nature, 299, 12-13.
55. Wallace, L.M. & Beavan, J., 2006. A large slow slip event on the central Hikurangi subduction interface beneath the Manawatu region, North Island, New Zealand, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33.
56. Yoshioka, S., Mikumo, T., Kostoglodov, V., Larson, K.M., Lowry, A.R. & Singh, S.K., 2004. Interplate coupling and a recent aseismic slow slip event in the Guerrero seismic gap of the Mexican subduction zone, as deduced from GPS data inversion using a Bayesian information criterion, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 146, 513-530.
57. Zumberge, J.F., Heflin, M.B., Jefferson, D.C., Watkins, M.M. & Webb, F.H., 1997. Precise point positioning for the efficient and robust analysis of GPS data from large networks, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 5005-5017.