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The Effect of Bandwidth Limitations on the Inference of Earthquake Slip-Weakening Distance from Seismograms

¹ U.S. Geological Survey
345 Middlefield Road
Menlo Park, California 94205
spudich{at}usgs.gov
 (P.S.)

² Swiss Re
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Armonk, New York 10504
Mariagiovanna_Guatteri{at}swissre.com
 (M.G.)

Numerous researchers have obtained estimates of slip-weakening distance, D_c, and fracture energy for recent earthquakes. D_c is often observed to be a significant fraction of the total slip and tends to correlate with total slip. Although these observations may well be true of real earthquakes, we show that low-pass filtering of strong-motion seismograms can also produce some of these effects in inverted rupture models. We test the accuracy of D_c estimates by calculating them in low-pass-filtered versions of models A and B of Guatteri and Spudich (2000). Models A and B are two different rupture models for a hypothetical M 6.5 earthquake, and they have nearly identical rupture time, slip, and stress-drop distributions, and nearly identical predicted seismograms, but D_c for model B is about twice that for model A. By low-pass filtering slip models A and B at 1.0 Hz, we simulate the blurring effects of band-limited waveform inversions on these slip models. At each point on a fault, is defined to be the slip at the time of the peak slip speed at that point. Low-pass filtering the slip models causes an upward bias in D_c inferred from stress-slip curves, and it causes an artificial correlation between and the total slip. Low-pass filtering might also bias fracture energy high and radiated energy low. These biases should be considered when interpreting D_c derived from band-limited slip models of real earthquakes.

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