TY - JOUR
T1 - High-resolution seismicity imaging and early aftershock migration of the 2023 Kahramanmaraş (SE Türkiye) MW7.9 & 7.8 earthquake doublet
AU - Ding, Hongyang
AU - Zhou, Yijian
AU - Ge, Zengxi
AU - Taymaz, Tuncay
AU - Ghosh, Abhijit
AU - Xu, Haoyu
AU - Irmak, Tahir Serkan
AU - Song, Xiaodong
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 The Authors
PY - 2023/12
Y1 - 2023/12
N2 - We build a high-resolution early aftershock catalog for the 2023 SE Türkiye seismic sequence with PALM, a seamless workflow that sequentially performs phase picking, association, location, and matched filter for continuous data. The catalog contains 29,519 well-located events in the two mainshocks rupture region during 2023-02-01–2023-02-28, which significantly improves the detection completeness and relocation precision compared to the public routine catalog. Employing the new PALM catalog, we analyze the structure of the seismogenic fault system. We find that the Eastern Anatolian Fault (EAF) that generated the first MW7.9 mainshock is overall near-vertical, whereas complexities are revealed in a small-scale, such as subparallel subfaults, unmapped branches, and stepovers. The seismicity on EAF is shallow (<15 km) and concentrated in depth distribution, indicating a clear lock-creep transition. In contrast, the Sürgü Fault (SF) that is responsible for the second MW7.8 mainshock is shovel-shaped for the nucleation segment and has overall low dip angles (∼40°–80°). Aftershocks on the SF distribute in a broad range of depth, extending down to ∼35 km. We also analyze the temporal behavior of seismicity, discovering no immediate foreshocks within ∼5 days preceding the first mainshock, and no seismic activity on the SF before the second mainshock.
AB - We build a high-resolution early aftershock catalog for the 2023 SE Türkiye seismic sequence with PALM, a seamless workflow that sequentially performs phase picking, association, location, and matched filter for continuous data. The catalog contains 29,519 well-located events in the two mainshocks rupture region during 2023-02-01–2023-02-28, which significantly improves the detection completeness and relocation precision compared to the public routine catalog. Employing the new PALM catalog, we analyze the structure of the seismogenic fault system. We find that the Eastern Anatolian Fault (EAF) that generated the first MW7.9 mainshock is overall near-vertical, whereas complexities are revealed in a small-scale, such as subparallel subfaults, unmapped branches, and stepovers. The seismicity on EAF is shallow (<15 km) and concentrated in depth distribution, indicating a clear lock-creep transition. In contrast, the Sürgü Fault (SF) that is responsible for the second MW7.8 mainshock is shovel-shaped for the nucleation segment and has overall low dip angles (∼40°–80°). Aftershocks on the SF distribute in a broad range of depth, extending down to ∼35 km. We also analyze the temporal behavior of seismicity, discovering no immediate foreshocks within ∼5 days preceding the first mainshock, and no seismic activity on the SF before the second mainshock.
KW - 2023 Türkiye Earthquake Doublet
KW - PALM
KW - aftershock catalog
KW - aftershock migration
KW - fault imaging
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U2 - 10.1016/j.eqs.2023.06.002
DO - 10.1016/j.eqs.2023.06.002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85176076726
SN - 1674-4519
VL - 36
SP - 417
EP - 432
JO - Earthquake Science
JF - Earthquake Science
IS - 6
ER -