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Super-shear ruptures steered by pre-stress heterogeneities during the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake doublet

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  • Kejie Chen

    (Southern University of Science and Technology
    Southern University of Science and Technology
    Southern University of Science and Technology)

  • Guoguang Wei

    (Southern University of Science and Technology)

  • Christopher Milliner

    (California Institute of Technology)

  • Luca Dal Zilio

    (Nanyang Technological University
    Nanyang Technological University)

  • Cunren Liang

    (Peking University)

  • Jean-Philippe Avouac

    (California Institute of Technology)

Abstract

The 2023 M7.8 and M7.5 earthquake doublet near Kahramanmaraş, Turkey, provides insight regarding how large earthquakes rupture complex faults. Here we determine the faults geometry using surface ruptures and Synthetic Aperture Radar measurements, and the rupture kinematics from the joint inversion of high-rate Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), strong-motion waveforms, and GNSS static displacement. The M7.8 event initiated on a splay fault and subsequently propagated along the main East Anatolian Fault with an average rupture velocity between 3.0 and 4.0 km/s. In contrast, the M7.5 event demonstrated a bilateral supershear rupture of about 5.0–6.0 km/s over an 80 km length. Despite varying strike and dip angles, the sub-faults involved in the mainshock are nearly optimally oriented relative to the local stress tensor. The second event ruptured a fault misaligned with respect to the regional stress, also hinting at the effect of local stress heterogeneity in addition to a possible free surface effect.

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  • Kejie Chen & Guoguang Wei & Christopher Milliner & Luca Dal Zilio & Cunren Liang & Jean-Philippe Avouac, 2024. "Super-shear ruptures steered by pre-stress heterogeneities during the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake doublet," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-11, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:15:y:2024:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-024-51446-y
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-51446-y
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    1. Chengli Liu & Thorne Lay & Rongjiang Wang & Tuncay Taymaz & Zujun Xie & Xiong Xiong & Tahir Serkan Irmak & Metin Kahraman & Ceyhun Erman, 2023. "Complex multi-fault rupture and triggering during the 2023 earthquake doublet in southeastern Türkiye," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 14(1), pages 1-14, December.
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