An ancient >200 m cumulative normal faulting displacement along the Futagawa fault dextrally ruptured during the 2016 Kumamoto, Japan, earthquake identified by a multiborehole drilling program

Abstract The Boutenac hills in the northeastern Corbieres region of southern France, are part of the autochthonous foreland of the eastern Corbieres nappe. They are an isolated massif between the Paleozoic formations of the Alaric mountain on the west, and the Jurassic and Cretaceous formations of the Fontfroide chain on the east, entirely surrounded by alluvium. Structurally, they comprise Mesozoic formations on the east thrust over the Eocene on the west, on a fault that is the prolongation of the Saint Chinian frontal fault to the northeast. The Mesozoic formations comprise upper (?) Triassic shale and dolomite, sandy limestone, dolomite, and limestone; Jurassic red sandstones and shales; and upper Cretaceous transgressive clastics. The Eocene is limestone and marl overlain by continental conglomerate and molasse, transgressive on the west upon the Alaric Paleozoics. Folding and thrust and normal faulting are important in the structure.

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Seismicity, focal mechanism, and stress tensor analysis of the Simav region, western Turkey

Open Geosciences ◽

10.1515/geo-2020-0010 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 479-490

Author(s):

Ahu Kömeç Mutlu

Keyword(s):

Moment Tensor ◽

Aftershock Sequence ◽

Movement Direction ◽

Normal Faults ◽

Normal Faulting ◽

Stress Inversion ◽

Western Turkey ◽

Stress Orientations ◽

Extension Direction ◽

Inversion Analysis

AbstractThis study focuses on the seismicity and stress inversion analysis of the Simav region in western Turkey. The latest moderate-size earthquake was recorded on May 19, 2011 (Mw 5.9), with a dense aftershock sequence of more than 5,000 earthquakes in 6 months. Between 2004 and 2018, data from earthquake events with magnitudes greater than 0.7 were compiled from 86 seismic stations. The source mechanism of 54 earthquakes with moment magnitudes greater than 3.5 was derived by using a moment tensor inversion. Normal faults with oblique-slip motions are dominant being compatible with the NE-SW extension direction of western Turkey. The regional stress field is assessed from focal mechanisms. Vertically oriented maximum compressional stress (σ1) is consistent with the extensional regime in the region. The σ1 and σ3 stress axes suggest the WNW-ESE compression and the NNE-SSW dilatation. The principal stress orientations support the movement direction of the NE-SW extension consistent with the mainly observed normal faulting motions.

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The 4 December 2015 Mw 7.1 Normal-Faulting Antarctic Plate Earthquake and Its Seismotectonic Implications

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America ◽

10.1785/0120190249 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 110 (3) ◽

pp. 1090-1100

Author(s):

Ronia Andrews ◽

Kusala Rajendran ◽

N. Purnachandra Rao

Keyword(s):

Body Wave ◽

Focal Depth ◽

Normal Fault ◽

Normal Faults ◽

Oceanic Plate ◽

Normal Faulting ◽

Transform Faults ◽

Wave Inversion ◽

Spreading Ridges ◽

Southeast Indian Ridge

ABSTRACT Oceanic plate seismicity is generally dominated by normal and strike-slip faulting associated with active spreading ridges and transform faults. Fossil structural fabrics inherited from spreading ridges also host earthquakes. The Indian Oceanic plate, considered quite active seismically, has hosted earthquakes both on its active and fossil fault systems. The 4 December 2015 Mw 7.1 normal-faulting earthquake, located ∼700 km south of the southeast Indian ridge in the southern Indian Ocean, is a rarity due to its location away from the ridge, lack of association with any mapped faults and its focal depth close to the 800°C isotherm. We present results of teleseismic body-wave inversion that suggest that the earthquake occurred on a north-northwest–south-southeast-striking normal fault at a depth of 34 km. The rupture propagated at 2.7 km/s with compact slip over an area of 48×48 km2 around the hypocenter. Our analysis of the background tectonics suggests that our chosen fault plane is in the same direction as the mapped normal faults on the eastern flanks of the Kerguelen plateau. We propose that these buried normal faults, possibly the relics of the ancient rifting might have been reactivated, leading to the 2015 midplate earthquake.

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The 1954 Rainbow Mountain-Fairview Peak-Dixie Valley earthquakes: A triggered normal faulting sequence

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ◽

10.1029/96jb01302 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 101 (B11) ◽

pp. 25459-25471 ◽

Cited By ~ 65

Author(s):

Kathleen M. Hodgkinson ◽

Ross S. Stein ◽

Geoffrey C. P. King

Keyword(s):

Normal Faulting ◽

Dixie Valley

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Normal faulting origin for the Cordillera and Outer Rook Rings of Orientale Basin, the Moon

Journal of Geophysical Research Planets ◽

10.1002/jgre.20045 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 118 (2) ◽

pp. 190-205 ◽

Cited By ~ 19

Author(s):

Amanda L. Nahm ◽

Teemu Öhman ◽

David A. Kring

Keyword(s):

The Moon ◽

Normal Faulting

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From coseismic offsets to fault-block mountains

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ◽

10.1073/pnas.1711203114 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 114 (37) ◽

pp. 9820-9825 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

George A. Thompson ◽

Tom Parsons

Keyword(s):

Upper Mantle ◽

Hanging Wall ◽

Large Earthquake ◽

Western United States ◽

Coseismic Deformation ◽

Finite Element Models ◽

Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar ◽

Normal Faulting ◽

Gravitational Forces ◽

Fault Block

In the Basin and Range extensional province of the western United States, coseismic offsets, under the influence of gravity, display predominantly subsidence of the basin side (fault hanging wall), with comparatively little or no uplift of the mountainside (fault footwall). A few decades later, geodetic measurements [GPS and interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR)] show broad (∼100 km) aseismic uplift symmetrically spanning the fault zone. Finally, after millions of years and hundreds of fault offsets, the mountain blocks display large uplift and tilting over a breadth of only about 10 km. These sparse but robust observations pose a problem in that the coesismic uplifts of the footwall are small and inadequate to raise the mountain blocks. To address this paradox we develop finite-element models subjected to extensional and gravitational forces to study time-varying deformation associated with normal faulting. Stretching the model under gravity demonstrates that asymmetric slip via collapse of the hanging wall is a natural consequence of coseismic deformation. Focused flow in the upper mantle imposed by deformation of the lower crust localizes uplift, which is predicted to take place within one to two decades after each large earthquake. Thus, the best-preserved topographic signature of earthquakes is expected to occur early in the postseismic period.

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