The 2008 Wells, Nevada earthquake sequence: Source constraints using calibrated multiple event relocation and InSAR
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
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Abstract
The 2008 Wells, NV earthquake represents the largest domestic event in the conterminous U.S. outside of California since the October 1983 Borah Peak earthquake in southern Idaho. We present an improved catalog, magnitude complete to 1.6, of the foreshock-aftershock sequence, supplementing the current U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Preliminary Determination of Epicenters (PDE) catalog with 1,928 well-located events. In order to create this catalog, both subspace and kurtosis detectors are used to obtain an initial set of earthquakes and associated locations. The latter are then calibrated through the implementation of the hypocentroidal decomposition method and relocated using the BayesLoc relocation technique. We additionally perform a finite fault slip analysis of the mainshock using InSAR observations. By combining the relocated sequence with the finite fault analysis, we show that the aftershocks occur primarily updip and along the southwestern edge of the zone of maximum slip. The aftershock locations illuminate areas of post-mainshock strain increase; aftershock depths, ranging from 5 to 16 km, are consistent with InSAR imaging, which shows that the Wells earthquake was a buried source with no observable near-surface offset.
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| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | The 2008 Wells, Nevada earthquake sequence: Source constraints using calibrated multiple event relocation and InSAR |
| Series title | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America |
| DOI | 10.1785/0120160298 |
| Volume | 107 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Year Published | 2017 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Seismological Society of America |
| Contributing office(s) | Geologic Hazards Science Center |
| Description | 11 p. |
| First page | 1107 |
| Last page | 1117 |
| Country | United States |
| State | Nevada |
| City | Wells |
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