S32B:
Physics of Subduction Earthquakes: From the Trench to the Transition Zone II

Session ID#: 4271

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
303 (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Zhongwen Zhan, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States and Lingsen Meng, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Primary Convener:  Marine Denolle, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, United States
Co-Convener:  Zhongwen Zhan, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, IGPP, San Diego, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Marine Denolle, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • T - Tectonophysics
Index Terms:

7209 Earthquake dynamics [SEISMOLOGY]
7215 Earthquake source observations [SEISMOLOGY]
7240 Subduction zones [SEISMOLOGY]
7260 Theory [SEISMOLOGY]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

S32B-01
The 2014 Mw6.2 Eketahuna earthquake, Hikurangi subduction zone – normal faulting in the subducted Pacific Plate crust (28392)
Stephen C Bannister1, Rachel E Abercrombie2, Caroline Francois-Holden1, Ian J Hamling1 and Johannes Peter Ristau1, (1)GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, (2)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
S32B-02
Temporal and Spatial Variations of Earthquake Source Parameters within the 2012 Nicoya, Costa Rica Mw=7.6 Earthquake Rupture Zone (11255)
Susan L Bilek, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Earth and Environmental Science, Socorro, United States, W. Scott Phillips, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Jacob I Walter, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Geological Survey, Norman, United States, Susan Y Schwartz, University of California Santa Cruz, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, Zhigang Peng, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, United States and Holly M. M. Rotman, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Earth and Environmental Science, Socorro, NM, United States
S32B-03
Regional and Teleseismic Constraints on Intermediate-Depth and Deep focus Earthquake Mechanisms (Invited) (3658)
German A Prieto1, Piero Poli2, Manuel Alberto Florez2, Sarah A Barrett3 and Berenice Froment1, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
S32B-04
Precise Relative Earthquake Depth Determination Using Array Processing Techniques (13982)
Manuel Alberto Florez, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States and German A Prieto, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia
S32B-05
The Depth-dependent Earthquake Stress Drop and Energy Radiation in Japan Subduction Zone (21782)
Justin Yen-Ting Ko1,2, Ban-Yuan Kuo2 and Shu-Huei Hung1, (1)Department of Geoscience, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, (2)Institute of Earth Sciences Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
S32B-06
Where Should We Look for Clues to Resolve the Physical Mechanism Causing Deep Earthquakes? Consider: Deep Moonquakes, and Isolated Deep Earthquakes (Invited) (2273)
Cliff Frohlich, University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States and Yosio Nakamura, Univ of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
S32B-07
Source Processes of Global Major Deep-focus Earthquakes (22997)
Yu Chen and Lianxing Wen, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States
S32B-08
Dynamic Triggering of Deep Earthquakes—a Global Perspective (8820)
Zhongwen Zhan, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States and Peter M Shearer, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States
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