Publication Date:
2020-02-24
Description:
The L'Aquila earthquake (Mw 6.3) occurred on April 6th at 01:32 UTC in the Central Appennines at a depth of about 9 km and was felt all over the central Italy. The main shock was preceded by a long seismic sequence started several months before and was followed by thousands of aftershocks, some of them with Mw〉4.
In this work we present a 3D Finite Element (FE) study of the co-seismic deformation field produced by the L'Aquila earthquake and investigated the slip distribution on the fault.
Our approach is based on a fully 3D parametrization of the spatial domain by means of a high resolution hexahedral mesh, discretized using 20-nodes brick elements. The element horizontal size is biased from 300 m to 2-3 km using the paving meshing algorithm in combination with an appropriate adaptive sizing function. Real surface topography (500 m) and rheological heterogeneities, deduced from a vp/vs travel time tomographic model, were incorporated within the model.
The seismic source has been modeled as a normal fault plane having an heterogeneous moment release. We first computed the co--seismic deformation field by a direct simulation and then the Green's functions, to retrieve the slip distribution on the fault by linear inversion of different GPS datasets. Our results show that the adoption of a realistic 3D domain has a sensible impact on the rupture slip distribution, confirming that a simple halfspace approach introduces some trade-off between domain homogeneity and source complexity.
Description:
Unpublished
Description:
San Francisco (USA)
Description:
3.3. Geodinamica e struttura dell'interno della Terra
Description:
open
Keywords:
Fault inversion
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slip distribution
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L'Aquila earthquake
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finite element method
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04. Solid Earth::04.06. Seismology::04.06.03. Earthquake source and dynamics
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05. General::05.01. Computational geophysics::05.01.03. Inverse methods
Repository Name:
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
Type:
Poster session
