Geometric controls on cascading rupture of the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake doublet

Y Zhang, X Tang, D Liu, T Taymaz, T Eken, R Guo… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
How fault geometry controls the rupture propagation and segmentation of a strike-slip event
is an open question. Deciphering the relationship between the geometric fault complexity …

The overall-subshear and multi-segment rupture of the 2023 Mw7. 8 Kahramanmaraş, Turkey earthquake in millennia supercycle

L Xu, S Mohanna, L Meng, C Ji, JP Ampuero… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract On February 6, 2023, an Mw7. 8 earthquake hit the East Anatolian Fault (EAF) and
Narlı Fault (NF), followed by an Mw7. 5 event on the Sürgü Fault. We combine multiple …

Global frequency of oceanic and continental supershear earthquakes

H Bao, L Xu, L Meng, JP Ampuero, L Gao… - Nature Geoscience, 2022 - nature.com
Earthquakes are supershear when their rupture speed is faster than that of the seismic shear
waves produced. These events are rare, but they can be highly destructive owing to the …

Understanding the rupture kinematics and slip model of the 2021 Mw 7.4 Maduo earthquake: a bilateral event on bifurcating faults

L Xu, Z Yunjun, C Ji, L Meng, EJ Fielding… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We image the rupture process of the 2021 Mw 7.4 Maduo, Tibet earthquake using slowness‐
enhanced back‐projection (BP) and joint finite fault inversion, which combines teleseismic …

Understanding and Mitigating the Spatial Bias of Earthquake Source Imaging With Regional Slowness Enhanced Back‐Projection

Y Zhang, H Bao, L Meng, Y Aoki - Journal of Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate characteristics of spatial biases in the Back‐projection method and the
effectiveness of the Slowness Enhanced Back‐projection (SEBP). The spatial bias refers to …

Source Imaging With a Multi‐Array Local Back‐Projection and Its Application to the 2019 Mw 6.4 and Mw 7.1 Ridgecrest Earthquakes

Y Xie, H Bao, L Meng - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This study aims to improve the multi‐array local back‐projection (MLBP) approach and to
apply it to the 2019 Mw 6.4 and Mw 7.1 Ridgecrest, California earthquakes to resolve more …

H/V Analysis in Juchitán de Zaragoza, Oaxaca, Following the 2017 M 8.2 Tehuantepec, México, Earthquake

SA Cortez, AA Velasco, MS Karplus… - Bulletin of the …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
In September 2017, over 450 lives were lost in Mexico as a result of two unusual, large‐
magnitude, normal earthquakes. On 7 September, an M 8.2 earthquake occurred offshore of …

Interplate slip rate variation between closely spaced earthquakes in southern Mexico: The 2012 Ometepec and 2018 Pinotepa Nacional thrust events

LA Dominguez, T Taira… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract On 20 March 2012, a Mw 7.5 thrust earthquake started a series of seven large
events (7.0≤ Mw≤ 8.2) that struck central Mexico during a period of 9 years (2012–2021) …

Fifteen years of (major to great) tsunamigenic earthquakes

F Romano, S Lorito, A Piatanesi, T Lay - Earth systems and environment, 2020 - par.nsf.gov
Tsunamis are a series of long gravity waves generated by abrupt displacement of a
significant volume of water that propagate under the action of gravity, returning the water …

Detecting offshore seismicity: Combining backprojection imaging and matched‐filter detection

T Feng, L Meng, H Huang - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
An important manifestation of the background or coseismic deformation surrounding
megathrust earthquakes is the offshore microseismicity, which are difficult to be directly …