Co-seismic grace gravity-based 11-layered 3-D thrust fault model for the Sumatra earthquake 2004

Journal of earth system science

Rambhatla G Sastry^1¹ 

[1] Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand 247 667, India.^1

关键词: GRACE satellite gravity;    spherical harmonics;    3-D thrust fault model;    co-seismic gravity anomaly;   

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学科分类：天文学(综合)

来源: Indian Academy of Sciences

【 摘 要 】

Our co-seismic Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment gravity data (level 2 ‘RL_05’ data product ‘GX-OG-_2-GSM) for the Sumatra earthquake 2004 is obtained by differencing monthly gravity field average for November 2004 from that of January 2005 and band-pass filtering (17${-}$30$^{\circ}$ and orders) in the spectral domain. Here, we propose a 11-layered three-dimensional (3-D) thrust fault gravity model based on different co-seismic rupture models in the literature. It honours co-seismic deformation of the ocean surface, ocean bottom and subsurface earth medium, different earthquake parameters and hypocentre information (${\sim}$ 35 km below mean sea level). Our forward gravity response matches well with the observed gravity (RMS error of 0.06257 $\mu$gal (6.26%)) data and our model allowed an independent computation of rupture length, instantaneous velocity, average seismic moment and momentum, which are, respectively, 1560 km, 2.9 km/s, 4.53 $\times$ 10$^{22}$ N m and 9.7 $\times$ 10$^{17}$ kg m/s. These parameters fairly agree with those in the literature. The computed momentum indeed corresponds to an area pulse (9.7 $\times$ 10$^{17}$ kg m/s) at ocean bottom that led to a tsunami generation. Thus, the proposed multi-layered 3-D gravity model in traditional fashion fully accounts for co-seismic gravity signal of the Sumatra earthquake 2004.

【 授权许可】

CC BY