finite faults and inverse theory with applications to the 1979 imperial valley earthquake abstract using a representation theorem from elastodynamics subsurface slip on a known fault is formulated as the solution to an inverse problem in which recorded surface ground motion is the data two methods of solution are presented the least squares method which minimizes the squared differences between theory and data and the constrained least squares method which simultaneously maintains a set of linear inequalities instabilities in the solution are effectively eliminated in both methods and the sensitivity of the solution to small changes in the data is quantitatively stated the inversion methodology is applied to 77 components of near field ground acceleration recorded during the 15 october 1979 imperial valley earthquake the faulting is constrained to propagate bilaterally away from the epicenter at an average velocity of 90 per cent of the shear wave speed on a vertical fault plane extending from the surface to 10 km depth inequality constraints are used to keep the faulting sequence physically reasonable by maintaining right lateral motion and positive slip velocity the preferred solution is stable and provides a good fit to the data it is also realistic and consistent with observed surface offsets and independent estimates of seismic moment

contribution of radar interferometry to a two step inversion of the kinematic process of the 1992 landers earthquake we study the rupture process of the 1992 landers earthquake to limit the trade off between slip amplitude and rupture time that affects solutions using only seismological data we adopt a two step approach we first constrain the slip distribution and its uncertainty by independent geodetic data to recover in the second step the temporal details of the rupture propagation the first step consists of an inversion of interferometric data and global positioning system measurements both independently and together to constrain slip distribution on a three segment fault model along both strike and dip direction we use a genetic algorithm to test the uniqueness of the solution and a least squares formulation to find the model which best fits the data we conclude from the results of these geodetic inversions that interferometric data are rich enough to access the slip distribution in the case of the landers earthquake since the surface deformations are more sensitive to shallow slip in our configuration the slip amplitude is better resolved near the surface than at depth the resulting slip distribution is in agreement with geological observations at the surface and confirms the heterogeneous nature of the landers earthquake most of the slip occurs at shallow depths on the homestead valley fault second segment with a maximum value of around 7 m another high slip zone is observed on the johnson valley fault first segment at 8 km depth in the second step we invert strong motion data with the a priori final slip amplitude and its uncertainty deduced from geodetic data to constrain the time history of the rupture process this second step emphasizes a strong variation of the temporal development of the earthquake fast rupture front velocities appear within high slip zones and the rupture slows when it encounters a resistance along the fault on average the rupture front propagates with velocities close to the s wave velocity and terminates about 20 s after initiation the large variations in both slip amplitude and rupture velocity suggest that the rupture process is better described by successively breaking asperities than by a pulse propagating with constant velocity

kinematics of the mw 7 2 12 november 1999 duzce turkey earthquake the november 12 1999 duzce earthquake ruptured a 40 km long fault segment of the north anatolian fault system immediately to the east of the august 17 1999 izmit rupture we use displacements of 32 sites derived from gps measurements immediately before and after the duzce earthquake to estimate the geometry and slip distribution of the coseismic rupture the 51 northward dipping rupture plane the rake of the slip vector average 3 76 0 04 m right lateral 0 76 0 04 m normal slip and the slip distribution inferred from the gps data are consistent with seismic observations and the distribution of surface offsets measured in the field the geodetically determined moment magnitude is mw 7 2 the duzce earthquake had the highest slip to rupture length ratio of any historic earthquake along the north anatolian fault this is consistent with the duzce earthquake being a part of a composite rupture with the preceding izmit event

evidence of nonlinear elasticity of the crust from the mw7 6 manyi tibet earthquake satellite synthetic aperture radar sar interferometry shows that the magnitude 7 6 manyi earthquake of 8 november 1997 produced a 170 kilometer long surface break with up to 7 meters of left lateral slip reactivating a n76 e quaternary fault in western tibet the radar interferometric map reveals asymmetric along strike displacement profiles between the two sides of the surface rupture a pattern that cannot be explained with linear elastic theory this observation suggests that the elastic moduli of the crust in tension and in compression are different because of the presence of cracks in the crust at shallow depth a model indicates that a ratio of 2 between compressive and tensile elastic moduli can account for the observed asymmetry a ratio that is consistent with laboratory and borehole measurements

satellite radar interferometric map of the coseismic deformation field of the m 6 1 eureka valley california earthquake of may 17 1993 interferometric combination of pairs of synthetic aperture radar sar images acquired by the ers 1 satellite before and after the eureka valley california earthquake of may 17 1993 maps the coseismic deformation field the fringes corresponding to contours of equal change in satellite to ground distance can be enhanced by forming the sum of two of such interferograms with altitudes of ambiguity roughly equal in magnitude but opposite in sign the resulting composite interferogram reveals some 10 cm of change in range indicating a coseismic deepening of the eureka valley graben after unwrapping filtering and decimation the range changes are used to estimate the centroid and focal mechanism these estimates indicate normal faulting on a rupture patch compatible with the distribution of aftershocks and mapped quaternary faults the change in elevation produced by this earthquake resembles the current topography scaled by a factor of 20 000

on the interpretation of subevents in teleseismic waveforms the 1994 bolivia deep earthquake revisited we evaluate the methodologies that aim at resolving the space time slip distribution during large earthquakes in one common approach the source process of an event is assumed to be composed of a series of subevents critical points in teleseismic body waves such as peaks and coherent arrivals are viewed as discrete points in the spatiotemporal history of an earthquake we show that these features can be interpreted as the instantaneous centroid locations of the moment release history we demonstrate this result with an analysis of the mw 8 2 bolivia 1994 deep event we reconstruct the slip distribution in two contrasting ways first broadband p waves are interpreted as being composed of subevents five peaks in the moment release rate are located relative to the onset of the rupture using the azimuthal variations of onset to peak times second we invert broadband p waves for the slip distribution on a subhorizontal fault we use a nonlinear tomographic imaging technique called simulated annealing and an l1 misfit norm rupture velocities appear to be 2 km s 1 and largest slip values are found to the east and north of the onset in a 40 by 50 km region the instantaneous centroids of the moment release history correspond closely to the locations found using the subevent analysis however especially near the middle and the end of the rupture the instantaneous centroid locations are in regions of little moment release we discuss how the subevent analysis and the instantaneous centroid approach lead to dissimilar interpretations of rupture processes especially for events with length to width ratios near unity another result of this study is that the rupture of the 1994 bolivia event appears to end 50 km to the northwest of the onset implying that the slip area is larger that previously thought comparing the slip distribution with the aftershock distribution suggests that more than one physical mechanism is necessary to account for the rupture process of this great deep event

the displacement field of the landers earthquake mapped by radar interferometry geodetic data obtained by ground or space based techniques can be used to infer the distribution of slip on a fault that has ruptured in an earthquake although most geodetic techniques require a surveyed network to be in place before the earthquake1 3 satellite images when collected at regular intervals can capture co seismic displacements without advance knowledge of the earthquake s location synthetic aperture radar sar interferometry first introduced4 in 1974 for topographic mapping5 8 can also be used to detect changes in the ground surface by removing the signal from the topography9 10 here we use sar interferometry to capture the movements produced by the 1992 earthquake in landers california11 we construct an interferogram by combining topographic information with sar images obtained by the ers 1 satellite before and after the earthquake the observed changes in range from the ground surface to the satellite agree well with the slip measured in the field with the displacements measured by surveying and with the results of an elastic dislocation model as a geodetic tool the sar interferogram provides a denser spatial sampling 100 m per pixel than surveying methods1 3 and a better precision 3 cm than previous space imaging techniques12 13

triggered slip observations of the 17 august 1999 izmit turkey earthquake using radar interferometry we use synthetic aperture radar interferometry insar to map the displacement field of the 17 august 1999 izmit earthquake which largely conforms to that predicted for an elastic upper crust we determine the earthquake source parameters and show that slip continues farther west than the mapped fault ruptures we also show that additional sub surface displacements occurred on parallel strands of the north anatolian fault zone we argue that this was caused by changes in static stress accompanying the mainshock or by the dynamic release of regional stresses

the 1995 grevena northern greece earthquake fault model constrained with tectonic observations and sar interferometry after the 1995 grevena ms 6 6 event in northern greece we mapped the earthquake fault break in detail the surface break is small 8 12 km long 4 cm slip compared to the moment release of the event however the morphologic and tectonic study of the active faults in the field and using the spot satellite imagery suggests that the earthquake ruptured part of a much larger fault system including interconnecting segments we used sar interferometry of the satellite ers 1 imagery to characterize the coseismic displacement field this shows a kidney shaped zone of subsidence reaching 30 cm flanked by an uplift zone reaching 5 cm we reproduce this field using dislocations in an elastic half space and our observations of the fault system this requires 1 m slip from 4 to 15 km depth on a main normal fault segment dipping nnw our preliminary model includes significant ne dipping scissors faulting at the eastern end of the rupture clearly seen in the interferograms

determination of the fault plane using a single near field seismic station with a finite dimension source model summary we explore the possibility of determining the actual fault plane of an earthquake from the inversion of near source displacement seismograms of one station when a finitedimension source is used instead of a point source model and when the complete displacement is taken into account including near field waves tests on synthetic seismograms and real data recorded at local distances show that this is possible even with a single three component station a single accelerogram available for the erzincan turkey 1992 march 13 m s 6 8 earthquake is inverted and the solution found is compatible with other seismological studies and with the mechanism expected for the north anatolian fault

seismic imaging of the 1999 izmit turkey rupture inferred from the near fault recordings we use near fault accelerograms to infer the space time history of rupture on the fault during the izmit earthquake the records show that the ground displacement and velocity near the fault were surprisingly simple rupture propagated toward the west at a velocity of about 3 km s and toward the east at a remarkably high average velocity of 4 7 km s over a distance of about 45 km before decelerating to about 3 1 km s on the eastern segment slip on the fault is particularly large down to a depth of 20 km on the central portion of the fault where it reaches about 7 m slip is large also below 10 km on the eastern fault segment and this may have contributed to the loading of shear stress on the duzce fault on the western fault segment large slip seems confined to shallow depths

estimating slip distribution for the izmit mainshock from coseismic gps ers 1 radarsat and spot measurements we use four geodetic satellite systems global positioning system gps european remote sensing ers radarsat and satellite pour l9observation de la terre spot to measure the permanent deformation field produced by the izmit earthquake of 17 august 1999 we emphasize measurements from interferometric analysis of synthetic aperture radar sar images acquired by ers and radarsat and their geodetic uncertainties the primary seismological use of these data is to determine earthquake source parameters such as the distribution of slip and the fault geometry after accounting for one month9s postseismic deformation tropospheric delay and orbital gradients we use these data to estimate the distribution of slip at the time of the izmit mainshock the different data sets resolve different aspects of the distribution of slip at depth although these estimates agree to first order with those derived from surface faulting teleseismic recordings and strong motion careful comparison reveals differences of 40 in seismic moment we assume smooth parameterization for the fault geometry and a standard elastic dislocation model the root mean square residual scatter is 25 mm and 11 mm for the ers and radarsat range changes respectively our estimate of the moment from a joint inversion of the four geodetic data sets is m 0 1 84 10 20 n m a moment magnitude of m w 7 50 these values are lower than other estimates using more realistic layered earth models given the differences between the various models we conclude that the real errors in the estimated slip distributions are at the level of 1 m the prudent geophysical conclusion is that coseismic slip during the izmit earthquake tapers gradually from approximately 2 m under the hersek delta to 1 m at a point 10 km west of it we infer that the yalova segment west of the hersek delta may remain capable of significant slip in a future earthquake

seismic cycle and plate margin deformation in costa rica gps observations from 1994 to 1997 global positioning system gps observations in costa rica from 1994 to 1997 reveal a complex pattern of motion consistent with the superposition of seismic cycle and secular plate margin deformation in the south velocity vectors are consistent with motion of the panama block plus postseismic deformation following the 1991 limon earthquake and interseismic strain due to partial locking of the middle america trench mat thrust in the northwest sites west of the volcanic arc are moving to the nw as a forearc sliver superimposed on this sliver motion are vertical and horizontal interseismic deformations from the adjacent nicoya segment of the mat we apply two different inverse methods to understand the source of the seismic strain in nw costa rica we compare fault locking models derived using a singular value decomposition inversion with that of a simulated annealing global optimization approach both methods yield similar models for partial locking of the thrust interface beneath the nicoya peninsula our results define an area of nearly fully locked fault beneath the outer coast of the southern portion of the peninsula with somewhat lower coupling beneath the northern half and with low coupling elsewhere these initial results show the promise for detailed imaging of the locked portion of a thrust interface responsible for future large subduction zone earthquakes

coseismic and postseismic fault slip for the 17 august 1999 m 7 5 izmit turkey earthquake we use global positioning system gps observations and elastic half space models to estimate the distribution of coseismic and postseismic slip along the izmit earthquake rupture our results indicate that large coseismic slip reaching 5 7 meters is confined to the upper 10 kilometers of the crust correlates with structurally distinct fault segments and is relatively low near the hypocenter continued surface deformation during the first 75 days after the earthquake indicates an aseismic fault slip of as much as 0 43 meters on and below the coseismic rupture these observations are consistent with a transition from unstable episodic large earthquakes to stable fault creep sliding at the base of the seismogenic zone

rupture processes of the 1999 august 17 izmit and november 12 duzce turkey earthquakes summary we derive the rupture history of the 1999 august 17 izmit mw 7 4 and 1999 november 12 duzce mw 7 1 earthquakes in turkey from teleseismic body waves using broad band data of the global seismograph network aftershock locations and mapped surface breaks the centroid solutions indicate strike slip mechanisms for both events the izmit earthquake was characterized by rupture propagating predominantly eastwards it consisted of a main rupture lasting about 25 s followed within 1 min by two more events of mw 6 9 and mw 7 0 with the teleseismic data we could not resolve the westward extent of rupture into the marmara sea however an upper bound of the seismic moment release west of the epicentre of the izmit event is estimated to be 1 9 1019 n m the duzce earthquake lasted about 14 s and was characterized by a bilateral mode of rupture in excellent agreement with mapped surface breaks and aftershock locations

synthetic aperture radar interferogram of the 1995 kobe earthquake and its geodetic inversion crustal deformation from the mw 6 9 january 17 jst 1995 kobe japan earthquake was detected by synthetic aperture radar interferometry sar more than four fringes with ellipsoidal shape were observed surrounding the nojima fault on northern awaji island suggesting a shortening in the range of more than 11 75 4 cm on the east side of this fault the sar sensor shows ellipsoidal fringes with an uplift zone in the rokko mountain range and sharp subsidence around the kobe area in addition to sar interferometry leveling and gps surveys were conducted by the geographical survey institute of japan gsi the permanent gps observation sites of the gsi monitored ground displacements from this earthquake with daily updates based on these geodetic data we estimated the faulting mechanism of the earthquake the analytical procedure was an iterative linearized least squares method a multi fault system consisting of six subfaults was constructed the locations of the estimated model faults were close to those of the active faults in this area running from the nojima fault on awaji island to the rokko faults in the kobe area with a change in strike angle near the ohtsuki fault in the kobe area the slip vectors of the nojima fault on awaji island had a large component of reverse dip slip of about 2 m and strike slip of about 2 m in the kobe area the amount of slip ranged from 0 3 to 1 2 m and was small compared with the slip on the nojima fault the results of these slip vectors agreed well with the results of other seismic geodetic and field studies

joint inversion of insar gps teleseismic and strong motion data for the spatial and temporal distribution of earthquake slip application to the 1999 izmit mainshock the space time distribution of slip of the 17 august 1999 izmit earthquake is investigated by inverting synthetic aperture radar sar interferometry and global positioning system gps data together with teleseismic broadband and near field strong motion records surface offsets are used as an added constraint special emphasis is given to analysis of the resolution of the different data sets we use a four segment finite fault model and a nonlinear inversion scheme allowing slip to vary in amplitude direction and duration as well as variable rupture velocity from the inversion of synthetic data we find that the best spatial resolution can be expected in the upper half of the fault model above 12 km where coverage of the interferometric sar data is good western half of the rupture and near the gps and strong motion stations teleseismic data are found to have a lower resolution that is more evenly distributed over the fault model the joint inversion of all the data sets has an increased resolving power compared with the separate inversions and gives a more robust description of the space and time distribution of slip our study shows the importance of resolution tests in evaluating the reliability of earthquake kinematic models and it confirms that an excellent fit of a single kind of data does not necessarily imply a good retrieval of the kinematic properties of an earthquake the izmit rupture which is almost pure right lateral strike slip faulting is dominated by the bilateral breaking of a central asperity located between 29 7 e about 10 km west of the city of golcuk and 30 4 e eastern margin of sapanka lake with slip reaching 6 8 m in the depth range 6 12 km the western termination of the rupture is found near the city of yalova but large slip ends around 29 7 e about 10 km east of hersek delta a second area of large slip is required by all the data sets further east toward the city of duzce between 30 7 e and 31 1 e karadere and duzce faults this eastern slip zone which is separated from the main central asperity by an area of greatly reduced slip is less well constrained by the data however a strong motion station near the city of duzce helps to locate a high slip patch near 31 1 e in the depth range 6 12 km the total seismic moment resulting from the joint inversion is 2 4 1027 dyne cm most of the energy release occurred in a short time less than 15 sec corresponding to the bilateral breaking of the central asperity rupture propagation is relatively uniform and fast toward the west with a rupture velocity close to 3 5 km sec propagation of large slip toward the east is initially slower but it accelerates during a short time interval about 10 sec after rupture nucleation eastward progression then slows down to less than 2 km sec after 15 sec and rupture almost vanishes in amplitude ca 20 sec after initiation rupture propagation then proceeds on the easternmost karadere and duzce fault segments east of 30 7 e from 22 to ca 50 sec supershear rupture propagation is not required for modeling the waveforms considered in this study the hypocenter of the duzce earthquake which occurred 3 months later 12 november 1999 m w 7 2 is located in the immediate vicinity of the easternmost slip patch of the izmit earthquake manuscript received 28 july 2000

spatial and temporal distribution of slip for the 1992 landers california earthquake we have determined a source rupture model for the 1992 landers earthquake m w 7 2 compatible with multiple data sets spanning a frequency range from zero to 0 5 hz geodetic survey displacements near field and regional strong motions broadband teleseismic waveforms and surface offset measurements have been used explicitly to constrain both the spatial and temporal slip variations along the model fault surface our fault parameterization involves a variable slip multiple segment finite fault model which treats the diverse data sets in a self consistent manner allowing them to be inverted both independently and in unison the high quality data available for the landers earthquake provide an unprecedented opportunity for direct comparison of rupture models determined from independent data sets that sample both a wide frequency range and a diverse spatial station orientation with respect to the earthquake slip and radiation pattern in all models consistent features include the following 1 similar overall dislocation patterns and amplitudes with seismic moments of 7 to 8 10 26 dyne cm seismic potency of 2 3 to 2 7 km 3 2 very heterogeneous unilateral strike slip distributed over a fault length of 65 km and over a width of at least 15 km though slip is limited to shallower regions in some areas 3 a total rupture duration of 24 sec and an average rupture velocity of 2 7 km sec and 4 substantial variations of slip with depth relative to measured surface offsets the extended rupture length and duration of the landers earthquake also allowed imaging of the propagating rupture front with better resolution than for those of prior shorter duration strike slip events our imaging allows visualization of the rupture evolution including local differences in slip durations and variations in rupture velocity rupture velocity decreases markedly at shallow depths as well as near regions of slip transfer from one fault segment to the next as rupture propagates northwestward along the multiply segmented fault length the rupture front slows as it reaches the northern limit of the johnson valley landers faults where slip is transferred to the southern homestead valley fault an abrupt acceleration is apparent following the transfer this process is repeated and is more pronounced as slip is again passed from the northern homestead valley fault to the emerson fault although the largest surface offsets were observed at the northern end of the rupture our modeling indicates that substantial rupture was also relatively shallow less than 10 km in this region

joint inversion of insar and teleseismic data for the slip history of the 1999 izmit turkey earthquake the slip history of the izmit earthquake is investigated by jointly inverting sar and teleseismic data with a multi segment variable slip finite fault model surface offsets are used as an added constraint the highest slip values 5 to 7 m of right lateral displacement are associated with a strong central asperity surrounding the hypocenter the bilateral breaking of this main asperity which lasted about 10 sec dominates the source time function from the golcuk izmit area to lake sapanca a relatively good correspondence is observed between slip at depth and at the surface but farther to the west and to the east slip tends to be confined to the near surface slip in the easternmost part of the rupture duzce segment is not well resolved our analysis finds the insar and teleseismic data to be compatible and complementary this study shows the potential of the joint inversion of both data sets for a rapid determination of the spatio temporal history of large earthquakes

estimation of an earthquake focal mechanism from a satellite radar interferogram application to the december 4 1992 landers aftershock using the interferometric fringes generated by the phase difference between a pair of synthetic aperture radar sar images acquired by the ers 1 satellite we estimate the focal mechanism of a small shallow thrust earthquake the inversion procedure is an iterative linearized least squares algorithm based on a standard elastic dislocation formulation for coseismic displacements our preferred estimate is a thrust focal mechanism with its hypocenter at n34 35 0 4 km w116 91 0 2 km 2 6 0 3 km depth on a plane dipping southward beneath the san bernardino mountains with a moment magnitude mw of 5 4 the strike dip and rake are n106 e 7 28 4 and 93 4 respectively on a fault 3 1 0 5 km wide and 2 9 0 4 km long the precision of these estimates is competitive with seismological determinations

source parameters of the 1 october 1995 dinar turkey earthquake from sar interferometry and seismic bodywave modelling abstract the 1 october 1995 m s 6 1 dinar earthquake ruptured a 10 km section of the nw se dinar civril fault there are discrepancies between the published source parameters from seismic data with seismic moments in disagreement by over a factor of two we use both sar interferometry and seismic bodywave modelling to determine earthquake source parameters an interferogram generated from ers 1 2 sar imagery spanning the event and separated by 5 months is used to derive source parameters by a downhill simplex inversion with multiple monte carlo restarts we model the displacements in the satellite line of sight initially using uniform slip on a rectangular dislocation in an elastic half space the resultant model fault plane agrees in strike and location with the observed surface break but systematic residuals exist in the line of sight deformation field resulting in a r m s residual of 20 mm in the interferogram the residuals are reduced if the depth distribution of slip is allowed to vary spatially in four segments along a continuous fault plane our best fitting solution with a r m s misfit of 8 mm reveals two distinct areas of slip on the fault plane strike 145 dip 49 rake 270 a main rupture slipping by 1 44 m between depths of 1 and 8 km becoming deeper to the se and matching the observed surface rupture and an along strike continuation to the nw of the same fault plane but between depths of 8 and 13 km and not associated with a surface break the total geodetic moment 4 5 0 1 10 18 nm is more than twice as large as published seismic moments based on the inversion of p waveforms alone but close to the harvard cmt moment 4 7 10 18 nm we use sh waveforms in addition to the p waves used previously to determine an alternative seismic source mechanism sh waves constrain the depth to be shallower than solutions based on p waves alone agreeing with the depths from the interferometric inversion and resulting in a larger moment 3 1 0 4 10 18 nm than the previous bodywave estimates 2 2 1 10 18 nm the cmt moment reduces in magnitude to a similar size 3 3 10 18 nm if the centroid depth and fault dip are constrained to the values determined from bodywave modelling and interferometry thus the geodetic moment is 40 bigger than the moment determined from seismology

frequency domain inversion of strong motions application to the 1992 landers earthquake we present a frequency domain inversion in which the observed earthquake strong ground motions are used to constrain the space time dependence of slip on a fault green s functions are numerically evaluated and the parameters describing the rupture are the local slip rupture time and rise time these parameters are simultaneously evaluated without additional constraints this procedure allows for large variations in the local rupture velocity the june 28 1992 landers earthquake mw 7 3 offers an exceptional opportunity to apply this technique to a major strike slip event we model the rupture evolution including local differences in slip durations and variations in rupture velocity our final results are in good agreement with other inversion studies geodetic and surface observations the main discrepancies occurred at depth and at the end of the johnson valley fault we show that a relatively low resolution could be an explanation for these differences rupture velocity and slip are extremely heterogeneous both along strike and with depth a moment of 0 90 1020 n m was found the slip distribution shows that this event consists of a series of regions of high slip subevents separated by regions of relative low slip approximately 50 of the moment was released on the homestead valley fault in this region of large slip the rupture velocity inferred by our inversion is well constrained and is equal to 3 0 km s at depth and 2 5 km s near the surface our inversion favors the hypothesis that the duration of the slip at each point of the fault is of the order of the duration of rupture of each subevent

the 17 august 1999 izmit earthquake on 17 august 1999 an earthquake of magnitude 7 4 shook northwestern turkey details on the earthquake9s characteristics and effects across northwestern turkey are provided and are put in the historical context of previous earthquakes in the region the earthquake was the seventh in a series of earthquakes migrating westwards along the north anatolian fault since 1939 information on historical earthquakes modeling and estimates of the slip rate along the fault indicate that the location and severity of the earthquake should not have come as a surprise

inversion of strong ground motion and teleseismic waveform data for the fault rupture history of the 1979 imperial valley california earthquake a least squares point by point inversion of strong ground motion and teleseismic body waves is used to infer the fault rupture history of the 1979 imperial valley california earthquake the imperial fault is represented by a plane embedded in a half space where the elastic properties vary with depth the inversion yields both the spatial and temporal variations in dislocation on the fault plane for both right lateral strike slip and normal dip slip components of motion inversions are run for different fault dips and for both constant and variable rupture velocity models effects of different data sets are also investigated inversions are compared which use the strong ground motions alone the teleseismic body waves alone and simultaneously the strong ground motion and teleseismic records the inversions are stabilized by adding both smoothing and positivity constraints the moment is estimated to be 5 0 10 25 dyne cm and the fault dip 90 5 dislocation in the hypocentral region south of the united states mexican border is relatively small and almost dies out near the border dislocation then increases sharply north of the border to a maximum of about 2 m under interstate 8 dipslip motion is minor compared to strike slip motion and is concentrated in the sediments the best fitting constant rupture velocity is 80 per cent of the local shear wave velocity however there is a suggestion that the rupture front accelerated from the hypocenter northward the 1979 imperial valley earthquake can be characterized as a magnitude 5 earthquake at the hypocenter which then grew into or triggered a magnitude 6 earthquake north of the border

radial growth rates and 210pb ages of hydrothermal massive sulfides from the juan de fuca ridge activities of 238u 228ra 226ra and 210pb were determined in submarine hydrothermal massive sulfides by nondestructive gamma ray spectrometry the samples were collected by the manned submersible dsrv alvin from active hydrothermal fields on the endeavour segment and axial seamount of the juan de fuca ridge 210pb activities are mostly below the equilibrium level with 226ra which is linearly correlated with the concentration of ba sr and ca in the deposits the ratios of226ra to the alkaline earth elements indicate that hydrothermal alteration of the underlying oceanic crust is the dominant source of ra in the sulfide deposits the 210pb pb ratios measured in many of the sulfides are higher than the ratio obtained for a basalt source of 210pb probably because of 210pb ingrowth from 226ra within the sulfide deposits an isochron approach employing ratios of 210pb pb and 226ra pb yielded an initial 210pb pb ratio in the range of 0 0 57 dpm g pb implying that the crustal residence time of the hydrothermal fluid in the endeavour segment is very short 10 years and that basalt alteration is the only source of the 210pb and pb for the hydrothermal fluid in axial seamount a residence time of 10 20 years is estimated on the basis of the initial 210pb pb and 228ra 226ra ratios of a sulfide chimney both residence time estimates are consistent with the results of previous studies we have estimated the upper limits of sample ages ranging from tens to a hundred years for 12 samples with the remaining seven samples indicating ages close to or older than 150 years the practical limit of the 210pb pb dating technique a concentrically sectioned sulfide chimney from axial seamount yielded mean radial growth rates ranging from a few tenths to a few mm year based on gradients of 210pb pb and 228ra 226ra activity ratios whereas a similarly sectioned chimney from the endeavour segment although collected from the top of an active black smoker vent displayed no 210pb or 228ra activity our results have implications for the duration and periodicity of hydrothermal circulation and associated mineral deposition at mid ocean ridges