Resolution of fault slip along the 470-km-long rupture of the great 1906 San Francisco earthquake and its implications
Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth
By: W. Thatcher, G. Marshall, and M. Lisowski
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Abstract
Data from all available triangulation networks affected by the 1906 earthquake have been combined to assess the trade-off between slip resolution and its uncertainty and to construct a conservative image of coseismic slip along the rupture. Because of varying network aperture and station density, slip resolution is very uneven. Although slip is determined within uncertainties of ??1.0 m along 60% of the fault, constraints are poor on the remaining, mostly offshore portions of the rupture. Slip decreases from maxima of 8.6 and 7.5 m at Shelter Cove and Tomales Bay to 4.5 m near Mount Tamalpais and 2.7 m at Loma Prieta. The geodetically derived slip distribution is in poor agreement with estimates based on analysis of S wave seismograms, probably because these waves register only 20-30% of the total seismic moment obtained from longer-period surface waves. Consideration of a range of fault geometries for 1906 slip near Loma Prieta indicates right-lateral motions lie between 2.3 and 3.1 m. These values are considerably greater than the 1.5 m of measured surface slip on which several assessments of high earthquake hazard for this fault segment were based. This factor, along with the absence of 1989 slippage where 1906 surface slip was used to make the forecasts, casts doubt on some claims of success in predicting the 1989 M = 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake.
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Thatcher, W., Marshall, G., and Lisowski, M., 1997, Resolution of fault slip along the 470-km-long rupture of the great 1906 San Francisco earthquake and its implications: Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth, v. 102, no. B3, p. 5353-5367, https://doi.org/10.1029/96JB03486.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Resolution of fault slip along the 470-km-long rupture of the great 1906 San Francisco earthquake and its implications |
| Series title | Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth |
| DOI | 10.1029/96JB03486 |
| Volume | 102 |
| Issue | B3 |
| Publication Date | March 10, 1997 |
| Year Published | 1997 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | American Geophysical Union |
| Description | 15 p. |
| First page | 5353 |
| Last page | 5367 |