Rupture mode preferences of crustal earthquakes in Japan
Abstract Rupture propagation is controlled by the energy balance between the energy release rate and fracture energy, which varies according to the rupture mode. Although previous studies have primarily investigated rupture modes for entire ruptures, this study focused on the rupture mode during rup...
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| description | Abstract Rupture propagation is controlled by the energy balance between the energy release rate and fracture energy, which varies according to the rupture mode. Although previous studies have primarily investigated rupture modes for entire ruptures, this study focused on the rupture mode during rupture propagation at each spatiotemporal point. Specifically, we introduced a metric to evaluate the rupture propagation direction and compared it with the slip direction. First, the validity of the metric was tested using a synthetic rupture. As a result, the estimated rupture mode for the circular-front rupture was mostly consistent with the assumed rupture mode, although a small slip around the reference location tended to cause a larger difference. We then applied this metric to the real earthquake and obtained various distributions of the spatiotemporal rupture modes. Through the stochastic analysis considering the uncertainty, we confirmed that rupture propagation exhibited a slight directional preference regarding the rupture mode except for the 2008 Iwate Miyagi Inland earthquake. For the 2008 Iwate Miyagi Inland earthquake, a strong barrier zone derived from a fault bending was likely to mitigate the rupture propagation, causing the biased rupture mode preference. This new metric for evaluating the rupture propagation direction can quantitatively represent the effects of rupture attenuation during source processes. Graphical Abstract |
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| spelling | doaj-art-559624788b9b4749bafcf7df40cedb402025-08-20T04:01:52ZengSpringerOpenEarth, Planets and Space1880-59812025-07-0177111210.1186/s40623-025-02254-1Rupture mode preferences of crustal earthquakes in JapanRitsuya Shibata0Naofumi Aso1National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster ResilienceDepartment of Applied Physics, Faculty of Advanced Engineering, Tokyo University of ScienceAbstract Rupture propagation is controlled by the energy balance between the energy release rate and fracture energy, which varies according to the rupture mode. Although previous studies have primarily investigated rupture modes for entire ruptures, this study focused on the rupture mode during rupture propagation at each spatiotemporal point. Specifically, we introduced a metric to evaluate the rupture propagation direction and compared it with the slip direction. First, the validity of the metric was tested using a synthetic rupture. As a result, the estimated rupture mode for the circular-front rupture was mostly consistent with the assumed rupture mode, although a small slip around the reference location tended to cause a larger difference. We then applied this metric to the real earthquake and obtained various distributions of the spatiotemporal rupture modes. Through the stochastic analysis considering the uncertainty, we confirmed that rupture propagation exhibited a slight directional preference regarding the rupture mode except for the 2008 Iwate Miyagi Inland earthquake. For the 2008 Iwate Miyagi Inland earthquake, a strong barrier zone derived from a fault bending was likely to mitigate the rupture propagation, causing the biased rupture mode preference. This new metric for evaluating the rupture propagation direction can quantitatively represent the effects of rupture attenuation during source processes. Graphical Abstracthttps://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-025-02254-1Rupture modeSource processFault rupture propagationEarthquake source observationComputational seismology |
| spellingShingle | Ritsuya Shibata Naofumi Aso Rupture mode preferences of crustal earthquakes in Japan Earth, Planets and Space Rupture mode Source process Fault rupture propagation Earthquake source observation Computational seismology |
| title | Rupture mode preferences of crustal earthquakes in Japan |
| title_full | Rupture mode preferences of crustal earthquakes in Japan |
| title_fullStr | Rupture mode preferences of crustal earthquakes in Japan |
| title_full_unstemmed | Rupture mode preferences of crustal earthquakes in Japan |
| title_short | Rupture mode preferences of crustal earthquakes in Japan |
| title_sort | rupture mode preferences of crustal earthquakes in japan |
| topic | Rupture mode Source process Fault rupture propagation Earthquake source observation Computational seismology |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-025-02254-1 |
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