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Provedor de dados: | 5
País: | France
Título: | The 2010 Haiti earthquake: A complex fault pattern constrained by seismologic and tectonic observations
Autores: | De Lepinay, Bernard Mercier; Deschamps, Anne; Klingelhoefer, Frauke; Mazabraud, Yves; Delouis, Bertrand; Clouard, Valerie; Hello, Yann; Crozon, Jacques; Marcaillou, Boris; Graindorge, David; Vallee, Martin; Perrot, Julie; Bouin, Marie-paule; Saurel, Jean-marie; Charvis, Philippe; St-louis, Mildor.
Data: | 2011-11
Ano: | 2011
Resumo: | After the January 12, 2010, Haiti earthquake, we deployed a mainly offshore temporary network of seismologic stations around the damaged area. The distribution of the recorded aftershocks, together with morphotectonic observations and mainshock analysis, allow us to constrain a complex fault pattern in the area. Almost all of the aftershocks have a N-S compressive mechanism, and not the expected left-lateral strike-slip mechanism. A first-order slip model of the mainshock shows a N264 degrees E north-dipping plane, with a major left-lateral component and a strong reverse component. As the aftershock distribution is sub-parallel and close to the Enriquillo fault, we assume that although the cause of the catastrophe was not a rupture along the Enriquillo fault, this fault had an important role as a mechanical boundary. The azimuth of the focal planes of the aftershocks are parallel to the north-dipping faults of the Transhaitian Belt, which suggests a triggering of failure on these discontinuities. In the western part, the aftershock distribution reflects the triggering of slip on similar faults, and/or, alternatively, of the south-dipping faults, such the Trois-Baies submarine fault. These observations are in agreement with a model of an oblique collision of an indenter of the oceanic crust of the Southern Peninsula and the sedimentary wedge of the Transhaitian Belt: the rupture occurred on a wrench fault at the rheologic boundary on top of the under-thrusting rigid oceanic block, whereas the aftershocks were the result of the relaxation on the hanging wall along pre-existing discontinuities in the frontal part of the Transhaitian Belt. Citation: Mercier de Lepinay, B., et al. (2011), The 2010 Haiti earthquake: A complex fault pattern constrained by seismologic and tectonic observations, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L22305, doi:10.1029/2011GL049799.
Tipo: | Text
Idioma: | Inglês

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http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00054/16557/14071.pdf

DOI:10.1029/2011GL049799

Editor: | Amer Geophysical Union
Relação: | http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00054/16557/
Formato: | application/pdf
Fonte: | Geophysical Research Letters (0094-8276) (Amer Geophysical Union), 2011-11 , Vol. 38 , N. L22305 , P. 7 p.
Fonte: | 2011 by the American Geophysical Union