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Shear-tensile crack as a tool for reliable estimates of the non-double-couple mechanism: West Bohemia-Vogtland earthquake 1997 swarm

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    SYSNO ASEP0460507
    Document TypeJ - Journal Article
    R&D Document TypeJournal Article
    Subsidiary JČlánek ve WOS
    TitleShear-tensile crack as a tool for reliable estimates of the non-double-couple mechanism: West Bohemia-Vogtland earthquake 1997 swarm
    Author(s) Šílený, Jan (GFU-E) ORCID, RID
    Horálek, Josef (GFU-E) ORCID, RID
    Source TitlePhysics and Chemistry of the Earth. - : Elsevier - ISSN 1474-7065
    Roč. 95, October (2016), s. 113-124
    Number of pages12 s.
    Publication formPrint - P
    Languageeng - English
    CountryGB - United Kingdom
    Keywordsearthquake mechanism ; moment tensor ; shear-tensile crack ; confidence regions
    Subject RIVDC - Siesmology, Volcanology, Earth Structure
    R&D ProjectsGAP210/12/2235 GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF)
    GA16-03950S GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF)
    Institutional supportGFU-E - RVO:67985530
    UT WOS000388476900010
    EID SCOPUS84979655832
    DOI10.1016/j.pce.2016.06.007
    AnnotationShear-tensile crack is a model for an earthquake mechanism that is more constrained than the moment tensor but that can still describe a non-shear focus. As such, the shear-tensile crack model is more robust than the moment tensor model and yields more reliable estimates for the earthquake mechanism. Such an advantage verifies the credibility of the non-double-couple component found for some events of the 1997 West Bohemia-Vogtland earthquake swarm. As expected, in several cases, a significantly resolved non-double-couple component was obtained where the moment tensor approach failed. Additionally, for non-shear sources, the shear-tensile crack model offers optimization of the Poisson number within the focus, concurrently with retrieval of the mechanism. However, results obtained for the joint inversion of the 1997 swarm indicate that resolution is low. A series of synthetic experiments indicated that limited observations during 1997 were not the cause. Rather, hypothetical experiments of both very good and extremely poor network configurations similarly yielded a low resolution for the Poisson number. Applying this method to data for recent swarms is irrelevant because the small non-double-couple components detected within the inversion are spurious and, thus, the events are pure double-couple phenomena
    WorkplaceGeophysical Institute
    ContactHana Krejzlíková, kniha@ig.cas.cz, Tel.: 267 103 028
    Year of Publishing2017
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