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Article Dans Une Revue Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America Année : 2021

Diffuse Deformation and Surface Faulting Distribution from Submetric Image Correlation along the 2019 Ridgecrest, California, Ruptures

Solène Antoine
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Arthur Delorme
Kang Wang
Roland Bürgmann
Ryan Gold

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ABSTRACT The 2019 Mw 6.4 and 7.1 Ridgecrest, California, earthquake sequence (July 2019) ruptured consecutively a system of high-angle strike-slip cross faults (northeast- and northwest-trending) within 34 hr. The complex rupture mechanism was illuminated by seismological and geodetic data, bringing forward the issue of the interdependency of the two fault systems both at depth and at the surface, and of its effect on the final surface displacement pattern. Here, we use high-resolution (WorldView and Pleiades) optical satellite image correlation to measure the near-fault horizontal and vertical surface displacement fields at 0.5 m ground resolution for the two earthquakes. We point out significant differences with previous geodetic- and geologic-based measurements, and document the essential role of distributed faulting and diffuse deformation in producing the observed surface displacement patterns. We derive strain fields from the horizontal displacement maps, and highlight the predominant role of rotation and shear strain in the surface rupture process. We discuss the segmentation of the rupture based on the fault geometry and along-strike slip variations. We also image several northeast-trending faults with similar orientation to the deeply embedded shear fabric identified in aftershock studies, and show that these cross faults are present all along the rupture, including at a scale <100 m. Finally, we compare our results to kinematic slip inversions, and show that the surface diffuse deformation is primarily associated with areas of shallow slip deficit; however, this diffuse deformation cannot be explained using elastic modeling. We conclude that inelastic processes play an important role in contributing to the total surface deformation associated with the 2019 Ridgecrest sequence.
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hal-03873923 , version 1 (27-11-2022)

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Solène Antoine, Yann Klinger, Arthur Delorme, Kang Wang, Roland Bürgmann, et al.. Diffuse Deformation and Surface Faulting Distribution from Submetric Image Correlation along the 2019 Ridgecrest, California, Ruptures. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 2021, 111 (5), pp.2275-2302. ⟨10.1785/0120210036⟩. ⟨hal-03873923⟩
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