ZHENG ZengJi,
JIN ShuangGen,
FAN LiHong
.2019.Fault parameters of the 2012 Sumatra earthquake estimated from GRACE gravity and gravity gradient changes Chinese Journal of Geophysics(in Chinese),62(11): 4129-4141,doi: 10.6038/cjg2019M0600
Fault parameters of the 2012 Sumatra earthquake estimated from GRACE gravity and gravity gradient changes
ZHENG ZengJi1,2,3, JIN ShuangGen1,4, FAN LiHong5
1. Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200030, China; 2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China; 3. Shaanxi Earthquake Agency, Xi'an 710068, China; 4. School of Remote Sensing and Geomatics Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China; 5. National Time Service Center, Chinese Academy of Science, Xi'an 710600, China
Abstract:The MW=8.6 earthquakes occurred on 11 April 2012 and ruptured off the west coast of northern Sumatra. The fault slip models of the earthquake were estimated from different data, but have large differences in the strike-slip nature of faults. GRACE-derived co-seismic gravity changes cover the epicenter area, which can provide good constraint on the fault parameters inversion. In this paper, co-seismic gravity and gradient changes of the 2012 Sumatra earthquake are extracted from GRACE time-variable gravity field and the superiority of the northward component is presented. The theoretical calculation results of the fault model are compared with the GRACE and the sensitivity of the Txx (north-to-north gravity gradient) to the fault parameters is analyzed. Finally, the fault parameters of the earthquake are retrieved based on the particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm and the Okubo dislocation model. The results show that the GRACE-observed co-seismic gravity and gravity gradient changes are in good agreement with the model-estimated results in spatial pattern, but have difference in amplitudes. The strip errors can be substantially suppressed by the north components of gravity and gravity gradients changes, where the noise level of gN (north gravity change) and Txx are the lowest, followed by Txz (north-to-up gravity gradient) and the worst is the Txy (north-to-east gravity gradient). The Txx is not sensitive to the depth of the fault, but sensitive to other fault parameters. The GRACE-inverted strike angle, dip angle, rake angle and average slip magnitude of the earthquake are 113.63°, 89.99°, 175.26° and 28.18 m, respectively, indicating a moment-magnitude MW=8.71. In addition, the GRACE-inverted rake angle shows that the earthquake is dominated by the right-lateral strike-slip.
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