Dynamics and rapid migration of the energetic 2008-2009 Yellowstone Lake earthquake swarm

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作者
Farrell, Jamie [1 ]
Smith, Robert B. [1 ]
Taira, Taka'aki [2 ]
Chang, Wu-Lung [3 ]
Puskas, Christine M. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Utah, Dept Geol & Geophys, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 USA
[2] Univ Calif Berkeley, Berkeley Seismol Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[3] Natl Cent Univ, Dept Earth Sci, Jhongli 32001, Taiwan
关键词
BENEATH; CALIFORNIA; INTRUSION; VOLCANO; CALDERA;
D O I
10.1029/2010GL044605
中图分类号
P [天文学、地球科学];
学科分类号
07 ;
摘要
Yellowstone National Park experienced an unusual earthquake swarm in December January, 2008-2009 that included rapid northward migration of the activity at I km per day and shallowing of the maximum focal depths from 12 to 2 km beneath northern Yellowstone Lake. The swarm consisted of 811 earthquakes, 0.5 < M(W) < 4.1, aligned on a N-S 12-km-long vertical plane of hypocenters. The largest earthquake of the swarm had a 50% tensile crack-opening source determined by a full waveform inversion that we interpret as a magmatic expansion component. In addition, GPS data revealed F W crystal extension coincident with the swarm. Modeling of GPS and seismic data is consistent with E W opening of similar to 10 cm on a N S striking vertical dike. Our interpretation is that the swami was induced by magmatic fluid migration or propagation of a poroelastic stress pulse along a pre existing fracture zone. Citation: Farrell, J., R. B. Smith, T. Taira, W.-L. Chang, and C. M. Pashas (2010), Dynamics and rapid migration of the energetic 2008-2009 Yellowstone Lake earthquake swarm, Geophys. Res. Lett., 37,L19305, doi:10.1029/2010GL044605.
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