Publication Date:
2014-07-26
Description:
The subduction zone in northern Chile is a well-identified seismic gap that last ruptured in 1877. The moment magnitude (Mw) 8.1 Iquique earthquake of 1 April 2014 broke a highly coupled portion of this gap. To understand the seismicity preceding this event, we studied the location and mechanisms of the foreshocks and computed Global Positioning System (GPS) time series at stations located on shore. Seismicity off the coast of Iquique started to increase in January 2014. After 16 March, several Mw 〉 6 events occurred near the low-coupled zone. These events migrated northward for ~50 kilometers until the 1 April earthquake occurred. On 16 March, on-shore continuous GPS stations detected a westward motion that we model as a slow slip event situated in the same area where the mainshock occurred.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Ruiz, S -- Metois, M -- Fuenzalida, A -- Ruiz, J -- Leyton, F -- Grandin, R -- Vigny, C -- Madariaga, R -- Campos, J -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2014 Sep 5;345(6201):1165-9. doi: 10.1126/science.1256074. Epub 2014 Jul 24.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Departamento de Geofisica, Facultad de Ciencias Fisicas y Matematicas, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile. sruiz@dgf.uchile.cl. ; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Centro Nazionale Terremoti, Rome, Italy. ; School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK. ; Departamento de Geofisica, Facultad de Ciencias Fisicas y Matematicas, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile. ; Centro Sismologico Nacional, Facultad de Ciencias Fisicas y Matematicas, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile. ; Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cite, Universite Paris Diderot, UMR 7154 CNRS, Paris, France. ; Laboratoire de Geologie, UMR 8538 CNRS Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25061132" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
,
Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Computer Science
,
Medicine
,
Natural Sciences in General
,
Physics
Permalink