Article Dans Une Revue Geophysical Research Letters Année : 2018

Earthquake Damage Patterns Resolve Complex Rupture Processes

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Fracture damage patterns around faults, induced by dynamic earthquake rupture, is an invaluable record to clarify the rupture process on complex fault networks. The 2016 M w 7.8 Kaikoura earthquake in New Zealand has been reported as one of the most complex earthquakes ever documented that ruptured at-least 15 faults. High-resolution optical satellite image correlation provides distinctive profiles of displacement field around the faults, and helps visualize the off-fault damage pattern. This observational approach, coupled with a first-of-its-kind numerical tool that captures rupture and activation of off-fault damage, allowed the determination of the most likely rupture scenario. This study demonstrates that complex rupture process can be explained in a rather simple way via a synergetic combination of state-of-the-art observation and first principle physics-based numerical modeling of off-fault damage. One Sentence Summary: Distinct fracture deformation patterns around faults resolves complex earthquake rupture scenario

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hal-02324477 , version 1 (16-07-2020)

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Yann Klinger, Kurama Okubo, Amaury Vallage, Johann Champenois, Arthur Delorme, et al.. Earthquake Damage Patterns Resolve Complex Rupture Processes. Geophysical Research Letters, 2018, 45 (19), pp.10,279-10,287. ⟨10.1029/2018GL078842⟩. ⟨hal-02324477⟩
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