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Postseismic relaxation due to Bhuj earthquake on January 26, 2001: possible mechanisms and processes

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  • C. Reddy
  • P. Sunil
  • Roland Bürgmann
  • D. Chandrasekhar
  • Teruyuki Kato

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Earthquakes cause static stress perturbations in the nearby crust and mantle. Obeying rheological laws, this stress relaxes in a time frame of months to years with the spatial extent of few km to hundreds of km. While postseismic relaxation associated with major inter-plate earthquakes is well established, there have been few opportunities to explore its occurrence following intraplate earthquakes. The M w 7.6 Bhuj earthquake on January 26, 2001 in western India is considered to be an intraplate event and provided a unique opportunity to examine post-earthquake relaxation processes sufficiently away from plate boundaries. To study the characteristics of transient postseismic deformation, six Global Positioning System campaigns were made at 14 sites. The postseismic transients were delineated after removing plate motions from the position time series. Postseismic deformation has been observed at all the sites in the study area. During 2001–2007, the site closest to the epicenter exhibited postseismic deformation of about 30 and 25 mm in the north and east components, respectively. Time series of the NS and EW components of the postseismic transients can be fitted to both logarithmic and exponential functions. Close to the epicenter, the logarithmic function fits well to the initial transient, and an exponential function fits well to the later phases. The remaining sites (located east and west of the epicentral region) exhibited significantly diminished north–south relaxation. Rapidly decaying afterslip and poroelastic mechanisms seem to be responsible for postseismic relaxation in the vicinity of epicenter during the initial period subsequent to the Bhuj earthquake. Postseismic relaxation by viscoelastic flow below the seismogenic zone seems to affect displacements across the entire Bhuj region. This paper presents the characteristics of postseismic transients and deformation processes in the scenario of the highly heterogeneous crust in the Bhuj region. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2013

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  • C. Reddy & P. Sunil & Roland Bürgmann & D. Chandrasekhar & Teruyuki Kato, 2013. "Postseismic relaxation due to Bhuj earthquake on January 26, 2001: possible mechanisms and processes," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 65(2), pages 1119-1134, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:nathaz:v:65:y:2013:i:2:p:1119-1134
    DOI: 10.1007/s11069-012-0184-7
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