Affiliation:
1. Research Center for Prediction of Earthquakes and Volcanic Eruptions Graduate School of Science Tohoku University Sendai Japan
2. International Research Institute of Disaster Science Tohoku University Sendai Japan
3. Graduate School of Science The University of Tokyo Bunkyo‐ku Japan
4. Institute of Science and Engineering Faculty of Natural System Kanazawa University Kanazawa Japan
Abstract
AbstractThe 2024 Mw 7.5 Noto Peninsula, Japan, earthquake was initiated within the source region of intense swarm activity. To reveal the mainshock early process, we relocated the earthquake hypocenters and found that many key phenomena, including the mainshock initiation, foreshocks, swarm earthquakes, and deep aseismic slip, occurred at parts of a previously unrecognized fault in intricate fault network. This fault is subparallel (several kilometers deeper) to a known active fault, and the mainshock initiation and foreshocks occurred at the front of a 2‐year westward swarm migration. The initiation location coincides with the destination of the upward migration of a deeper earthquake cluster via several smaller faults. Fluid supply, small earthquakes, and aseismic slip on the fault likely triggered the mainshock, leading to the first major rupture at the western region, propagating further to the west and east sides, resulting in an Mw7.5 event, exceeding 100 km in length.
Publisher
American Geophysical Union (AGU)