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

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
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 Conveners:  Marine Denolle, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, IGPP, La Jolla, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Zhongwen Zhan, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, IGPP, San Diego, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Marine Denolle, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, IGPP, La Jolla, CA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
S32B-01
 
The 2014 Mw6.2 Eketahuna earthquake, Hikurangi subduction zone – normal faulting in the subducted Pacific Plate crust
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
10:35 AM
S32B-02
 
Temporal and Spatial Variations of Earthquake Source Parameters within the 2012 Nicoya, Costa Rica Mw=7.6 Earthquake Rupture Zone
Susan L Bilek, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM, United States, W. Scott Phillips, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Jacob I Walter, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, Susan Y Schwartz, University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, Zhigang Peng, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, United States and Holly M. M. Rotman, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Earth and Environmental Science, Socorro, NM, United States
10:50 AM
S32B-03
 
Regional and Teleseismic Constraints on Intermediate-Depth and Deep focus Earthquake Mechanisms
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
11:05 AM
S32B-04
 
Precise Relative Earthquake Depth Determination Using Array Processing Techniques
Manuel Alberto Florez and German A Prieto, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
11:20 AM
S32B-05
 
The Depth-dependent Earthquake Stress Drop and Energy Radiation in Japan Subduction Zone
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
11:35 AM
S32B-06
 
Where Should We Look for Clues to Resolve the Physical Mechanism Causing Deep Earthquakes? Consider: Deep Moonquakes, and Isolated Deep Earthquakes
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
11:50 AM
S32B-07
 
Source Processes of Global Major Deep-focus Earthquakes
Yu Chen and Lianxing Wen, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States
12:05 PM
S32B-08
 
Dynamic Triggering of Deep Earthquakes—a Global Perspective
Zhongwen Zhan and Peter M Shearer, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
 
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