Imaging the Mudurnu segment of the North Anatolian Fault Zone from waveforms of small earthquakes

0486439 - GFÚ 2019 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Najdahmadi, B. - Hrubcová, Pavla - Vavryčuk, Václav - Bohnhoff, M.
Imaging the Mudurnu segment of the North Anatolian Fault Zone from waveforms of small earthquakes.
Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth. Roč. 123, č. 1 (2018), s. 493-512. ISSN 2169-9313. E-ISSN 2169-9356
R&D Projects: GA ČR GA17-19297S; GA ČR GC16-19751J
Institutional support: RVO:67985530
Keywords : local seismicity * North Anatolian Fault Zone * seismic waveform processing * converted PS phases * polarization analysis * secondary phases in P wave coda
OECD category: Volcanology
Impact factor: 3.585, year: 2018

We analyze waveforms of local earthquakes occurring before, between, and after the two consecutive 1999 M-w>7 zmit and Duzce earthquakes in NW Turkey. The waveforms were recorded at three seismic stations DOK, EKI, and GOK located around the Mudurnu segment of the North Anatolian Fault Zone. We focus on the interpretation of a distinct secondary phase contained in the P wave coda that is well separated from the direct P wave. The phase is visible in many waveforms of most seismicity clusters and has a specific constant time delay after the direct P wave arrivals at each station, irrespective of epicentral distance, hypocentral depth, or back azimuth. Based on a polarization analysis of records at station GOK, this secondary phase is interpreted as a PS wave converted at an interface near the stations. Its particle motion is consistent with the direct S wave and displays S wave splitting produced by the anisotropic upper crust. Synthetic modeling indicates that this PS phase can be converted either at a horizontal interface or at a steeply inclined interface. The steep Mudurnu fault zone with the near-surface setting indicating a juvenile pull-apart structure fits well into these interpretations, which are in agreement with the eastward progressing transtensional tectonics known for the region.
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