Broadband records at teleseismic distances were retrieved from IRIS Web site: WILBER-II. The waveforms are very complex, indicating a multiple shock nature of this earthquake source process.
<Analysis>
We first applied the iterative deconvolution by Kikuchi and
Kanamori (1991), where the source process is modeled as a sequence
of discrete subevents with variable mechanisms. Then two subevents
were derived: the one for initial 30 s and the other for a
later 60 s. The mechanism is completely different: the first event
is a reverse-fault striking NE-SW and the second is a right lateral
strike-slip (Fig.1). The source parameters
for the reverse-fault are: (strike, dip, rake) = (227, 40, 99);
the source duration = 16s;
Mo = 4.6x10**19 Nm.
Note that even an introductory rupture has a size of Mw 7.0.
The centroid of the main event is located about 180 km east to
the initial break (63.74N, 147.69W after QED).
For the rupture process of the main strike-slip, we constructed
the grid scheme on the fault plane to determine the spatio-temporal
distribution of the moment release. The results are shown in
Fig.2 (moment-rate, waveform comparison etc.)
and Fig.3 (map view: slip distribution projected
on a horizontal plane).
A strike-slip rupture started near the epicentral area and rapidly
extended to the east with 3 km/s. The total length exceeded 200 km.
The source parameters for the major strike-slip event are as follows:
| centroid depth | h0=15 km |
|---|---|
| (strike, dip, rake) | (294, 86, 161) |
| seismic moment | Mo = 7.8x10**20 Nm (Mw=7.9) |
| source duration | T = 70 s |
| fault area | S = 200kmx30km |
| dislocation (Maximum) | Dmax = 12 m |
| (averaged) | Da = 4.3 mĦĦ(rigidity = 30GPa) |
| stress drop (averaged) | DELTA sigma = 4.2 MPa |
