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Post-seismic Displacements Induced by the 2011 Tohoku-Oki MW9.0 Earthquake based on Visco-elastic Spherical Dislocation Theory

LIU Tai1,FU Guang-yu1,2,SU Xiao-ning1,3   

  1. 1.Key Laboratory of Earthquake Prediction, Institute of Earthquake Science, CEA, Beijing 100036, China;
    2.Key Laboratory of Computational Geodynamics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China;
    3.College of Surveying and Geo-informatics, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
  • Received:2016-09-19 Published:2019-08-09

Abstract: In the present study, we extracted the post-seismic displacements caused by the 2011 Tohoku-Oki MW9.0 earthquake from GPS observations. The data spans from March 2011 to September 2015. We studied the contributions of afterslip and visco-elastic relaxation on the post-seismic displacements within 4.5 years after the main shock. We updated the software of Tanaka using a segment-summation scheme, improving the computation accuracies in the near-field. We calculated the co-seismic Green functions of the vertical and horizontal displacement at the source depth of 32 km, using the visco-elastic dislocation theory of Tanaka and elastic spherical dislocation theory of Sun, respectively. The results indicate that these two sets of Green functions are consistent with each other. The differences between the two sets of Green functions are within the uncertainty of the computation. This fact confirmed the correctness of our new software. Then we simulated the post-seismic displacements from March 2014 to September 2015, which are mainly caused by the visco-elastic relaxation of the Mantle. Comparing the observed displacements with the simulated ones, we found that the optimal viscosity of the Mantle around the epicenter region is about 7×1018 Pa ·s.

Key words: Spherical dislocation theory, GPS, 2011 Tohoku-Oki MW9.0 earthquake, Displacement, Viscosity of the Mantle

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