Affiliation:
1. University of California, Riverside Riverside CA USA
Abstract
AbstractSlow earthquakes in the form of tremors and low frequency earthquakes (low‐frequency earthquakes) occur along the south‐central range of Taiwan (Aguiar et al., 2017, https://doi.org/10.1002/2016gl072148; Chao et al., 2012, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246x.2011.05261.x; Tang et al., 2010, https://doi.org/10.1029/2010gl043918). This study detects discrete very low frequency earthquakes (VLFEs) using a grid‐search moment tensor inversion algorithm (Ghosh et al., 2015, https://doi.org/10.1002/2015gl063286; Hutchison & Ghosh, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018jb016138). By applying a matched filtered technique, we have created a robust VLFE catalog for 3 years. The two VLFEs closer to the tremor‐producing region show a temporal relationship, but the western VLFE is the most active among the three. Our VLFE catalog of high temporal resolution allows us to identify a significant increase in VLFE activities preceding earthquake swarms. An empirical comparison of the VLFE catalog with regional and local cataloged fast earthquakes reveals two such instances. We show that fluid migration from deeper to shallower crust explains this modulation of regular fast earthquakes by VLFEs.
Publisher
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Subject
General Earth and Planetary Sciences,Geophysics
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