Studying the seismogenic coupling zone with a passive seismic array

Geodetic and seismic constraints on some seismogenic zone processes in Costa Rica

[1] New seismic and geodetic data from Costa Rica provide insight into seismogenic zone processes in Central America, where the Cocos and Caribbean plates converge. Seismic data are from combined land and ocean bottom deployments in the Nicoya peninsula in northern Costa Rica and near the Osa peninsula in southern Costa Rica. In Nicoya, inversion of GPS data suggests two locked patches centered...

Temporal variations of seismic anisotropy in seismogenic areas :

Des variations de paramètres physiques, avant et suite au séisme de Parkfield, 2004, Mw 6.0, et pouvant être associés à l’anisotropie sismique, ont été extraites des ondes de surface reconstruites par la méthode de cross-corrélation du bruit sismique. En effet, en cross-corrélant les trois composantes du bruit enregistré passivement à deux stations sismiques, on obtient le tenseur des corrélati...

Null Steering GPS Array in the Presence of Mutual Coupling

A null steering GPS antenna array is designed in this paper. In the proposed method, the exact full wave antenna radiation properties with the effect of mutual couplings and nearby scatterers are considered to calculate the array steering vector, precisely. Although the proposed method is not constrained by the array geometry and the antenna element specifications, a five patch antenna elements...

Seismogenic faulting in the Meruoca granite, NE Brazil, consistent with a local weak fracture zone.

A sequence of earthquakes occurred in 2008 in the Meruoca granitic pluton, located in the northwestern part of the Borborema Province, NE Brazil. A seismological study defined the seismic activity occurring along the seismically-defined Riacho Fundo fault, a 081° striking, 8 km deep structure. The objective of this study was to analyze the correlation between this seismic activity and geologica...

Upper limit on damage zone thickness controlled by seismogenic depth