著者
鷺谷 威 西村 卓也 畑中 雄樹 福山 英一 L. ELLSWORTH
出版者
公益社団法人 日本地震学会
雑誌
地震 第2輯 (ISSN:00371114)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.54, no.4, pp.523-534, 2002-04-25 (Released:2010-03-09)
参考文献数
21
被引用文献数
2 12

The 2000 Western Tottori Earthquake occurred on October 6, 2000, in the border of Tottori-Shimane prefectures. Japanese nationwide continuous GPS array recorded coseismic as well as postseismic crustal movements due to the earthquake. The maximum coseismic displacement observed was about 17cm. The coseismic deformation pattern clearly demonstrates a left-lateral strike slip source mechanism, which is consistent with seismic data analysis results. Leveling surveys around the focal region revealed up to 15cm vertical displacement near the source fault. GPS sites northeast of the source region were displaced up to 2cm to the northeast during 3 months after the earthquake, while a GPS site on the other side moved to the south by 2cm. Crustal deformation data are inverted to estimate two types of static fault models. One is a single rectangular fault model which can reproduce the coseismic displacement vectors observed by GPS. The other fault model, whose geometry is derived from precise re-determination of aftershocks, provides detailed information on slip distribution. We need to supplement subfaults in the shallower (depth<4km) parts to the original fault model in order to explain leveling change data, which implies systematic bias in the hypocenter depth or a full relaxation of stress by the main shock. Estimated moment magnitude were 6.6 and 6.7 for the two models, consistent with waveform inversion analysis.
著者
山下 太 福山 英一 下田 晃嘉 渡辺 俊
雑誌
JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2020
巻号頁・発行日
2020-03-13

National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED) has been conducting friction experiments with meter-scale rock specimens using a large-scale shaking table. We have presented a result that the work rate at which the meter-scale rock friction starts to decrease is one order of magnitude smaller work rate than that of the centimeter-scale one (Yamashita et al., 2015, Nature). Mechanical, visual and material observations suggested that the difference of frictional properties between centimeter and meter scale is caused by slip-evolved heterogeneous stress concentration on gouge bumps generated with the frictional slip. We confirmed that numerical simulation based on the observations is fully consistent with the experimental results. However, it should be noted that the natural fault zone generally involves gouge layer in it. Therefore, it is crucial to investigate which the scale dependence of frictional property can be seen or not under such a condition. To answer this question, we conducted meter-scale gouge friction experiments using the large-scale shaking table. We used metagabbro blocks from India as driver blocks. The contacting area was 1.5 m long and 0.1 m wide. As the simulated gouge, we ground metagabbro blocks by the jet mill, so that the average diameter of the gouge particle is approximately 10 μm and the maximum diameter of that is less than 200 μm. We roughened the fault surface by sandblasting after polishing the surface so that the fault surface can grip the gouge particles. We distributed the simulated gouge with a thickness of 3 mm on the fault and then sheared at a constant or step-change velocity after applying normal stress up to 6.7 MPa at maximum. We will present basic experimental results at the meeting.
著者
福山 英一 山下 太 徐 世慶 溝口 一生 滝沢 茂 川方 裕則
雑誌
JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2020
巻号頁・発行日
2020-03-13

We have been conducting meter-scale rock friction experiments using the large-scale shaking table at NIED since 2012. We have completed 5 series of experiments, each of which included about 20 experiments. One of the purposes of these experiments was to investigate the spatial scaling of the friction since the friction laws we use today were derived from centimeter-scale experiments. Another purpose was to monitor rupture evolution and local stress field using near-fault high-resolution measurements. In this talk, we will showcase some key results derived from our rock friction experiments.Regarding the spatial scaling of friction, we recognized that the local frictional strength was not uniform on the fault and its spatial variation had a significant impact to the macroscopic frictional strength (Yamashita et al., 2015). In addition, the scaling behavior seems different between rock-on rock friction and that with a gouge layer. In the rock-on-rock case, gouge generation changes the strength in space. But if the gouge layer already exists, strength depends on the rearrangements of the gouge particles (Yamashita et al., 2018).Regarding rupture evolution on laboratory fault, we pointed out a previously overlooked difficulty in direct measuring the two-dimensional (2D) evolution of the rupture front. Under very special condition, we could overcome this difficulty by installing 2D strain gauge arrays inside the rock sample. We found that the free surface effects at both edges of the fault had a significant effect on rupture nucleation (Fukuyama et al., 2018). In addition, the strain behavior close to the fault edge might not be the same as that on the fault, even if the sensors were installed within 10 mm away from the fault. Using numerical simulations, we could reproduce the observed strain data by extrapolating a simple friction behavior on the fault surface, suggesting that the way of deriving the friction law needs to be revised (Xu et al., 2019).We also discovered some interesting fault behaviors during our experiments. By changing loading rate or fault surface condition, we could frequently reproduce super shear rupture events in the laboratory, which were thought to be rare in nature. By investigating the cohesive zone length of the rupture front in the supershear regime, we showed that the experimental results could reach a good match with one of the theoretical predictions Fukuyama et al. (2017). Moreover, we observed slow slip events with supersonic propagation velocity during some experiments (Fukuyama et al., 2019), whose interpretation is still underway.The above results bridge the gap between the traditional small-scale lab experiments and the field observations, and can be useful for improving our understandings of fault rheology and earthquake physics.
著者
辻村 優志 川方 裕則 福山 英一 山下 太 徐 世慶 溝口 一生 滝沢 茂 平野 史朗
出版者
日本地球惑星科学連合
雑誌
日本地球惑星科学連合2016年大会
巻号頁・発行日
2016-03-10

For inland earthquakes such as the 2007 Noto Hanto earthquake (Doi and Kawakata, 2013) and the 2008 Iwate-Miyagi earthquake (Doi and Kawakata, 2012), foreshocks were reported to occur in the vicinity of main shock hypocenter. Moreover, for interplate earthquakes such as the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku earthquake (Kato, et al., 2012) and 2014 Iquique earthquake in Chile (Yagi et al., 2014), migration of foreshocks toward the main shock hypocenter was detected in one month before the main shock. In order to understand the generation mechanism of foreshocks, it is important to investigate under what environments foreshocks occur.Since 2012, stick-slip experiments have been carried out using a large-scale biaxial friction apparatus at NIED (e.g., Fukuyama et al., 2014). Based on the experimental result that foreshocks were detected only in the later period of each run, Kawakata et al. (2014) suggested that the foreshocks occur only after the generation of gouge. In this study, we carried out a series of stick-slip experiments with and without pre-existing gouge along a fault plane to confirm if fault gouge affects the foreshock activity. When foreshocks are detected, we estimate the hypocenter locations of foreshocks.We used two rectangular metagabbro blocks to make the simulated fault plane, whose dimension was 1500 mm long and 500 mm wide. The experiments were conducted under normal stress of 1.33 MPa and loading speed of 0.01 mm/s up to approximate slip amount of 8 mm. During each experiment, we continuously measured elastic waves to detect foreshocks. The sensor distribution is shown in the figure below. Gouge materials were prepared naturally during preceding experiments whose sliding speed was as high as 1 mm/s.To roughly detect foreshock activity, we calculated cumulative amplitude of continuous waveform data every 0.01 seconds. During an experiment without pre-existing gouge materials (LB13-004), a few foreshocks were detected. On the other hand, during an experiment with pre-existing gouge materials (LB13-007), much more foreshocks were detected. Then we estimated hypocenters of foreshocks for a stick-slip event (event 44) in LB13-007. Although the initial phases of the main shock were contaminated due to the coda wave signals of preceding foreshocks, the hypocenter of the main shock was roughly estimated near the right end of the fault plane. Foreshocks began to occur in the left half of the fault plane, but most of later foreshocks occurred near the right end.Therefore, we confirmed that foreshock activity was high when gouge materials were present along a fault plane, and found a similar hypocenter migration of foreshocks toward the main shock hypocenter, which was reported for interplate earthquakes.In the future, we shall examine the data obtained from other experiments to confirm if the aforementioned features are common.Acknowledgments: This work was supported by NIED research project “Development of monitoring and forecasting technology for crustal activity” and JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 23340131.