Ben Brooks James Foster, Cecily Wolfe David Sandwell, David Myer Mike Poland, Matt Patrick, Paul Okubo The Father’s Day 2007 Intrusion At Kilauea: Chickens, Eggs, Dikes, And Slow Earthquakes
So What ? Slow Earthquakes Being Recognized as Fundamental Part of the Seismic Cycle Cascadia, Japan, Mexico, Alaska, San Andreas, Hawaii Periodicity Observed Cascadia, Mexico, Hawaii No General Theory for Slow Earthquakes and/or Periodicity Rate & State Friction RSF modified by climatic fluctuations (Lowry, 2006) TODAY’s TALK: Review Kilauea Deformation and Slow Earthquakes Father’s Day Intrusion and Evidence For Slow Earthquake Stress Modeling Explanation for Periodicity Due to Constant Stressing Rate
Cascadia Slow Earthquakes From Rogers&Dragert, 2003 From Miller et al., 2002
Seismicity (<10km) & CGPS Deformation Kilauea Caldera SWRZ Hilina Slump ERZ HP
The Hilina Slump From Morgan et al., 2003 Owen et al, Stable Sliding of Entire Decollement Cayol et al., Decollement Locked seaward of EQs
Competing Models Cayol et al. 2000: EXPLAINS SEISMICITY
Magmatism & Stress From Cayol et.al, 2000 c n
Time Series 774+/-7 Next SE Expected March 17, 2007
Slow Earthquakes: 2 Families Triggered Seismicity
Earthquake Counts – Western Events From Brooks et.al, 2006
Possible SE Sources & Triggered Seismicity From Brooks et.al, 2006
Coulomb Failure Stress from Slow Earthquakes From Segall et.al, 2000 BACKGROUND STRESSES ARE NEGLECTED
From Wolfe et.al, submitted
Earthquake Relocations From Wolfe et.al, submitted
Relocations: Cross Sections From Wolfe et.al, submitted
USGS & NSF Experiment: Feb – July, 2007 (USGS, UH, U Wisconsin, Stanford)
ALOS: Line of Sight
Competing Models
Far-field residuals close to zero
Slow Earthquakes & Dikes
Competing Models
Vertical Results
Vertical Results: June 2007
Tilt Meters
Periodic Slow Earthquake Comparison Guerrero data courtesy T. Lowry
From Sykes & Menke, 2006 Kilauea Cascadia Guerrero
An Explanation for Why and When ? WAOP HALR NUPM KTPM UWEV AHUP
ERZ O PENING (1998-Present) (Cortesy Katie Phillips, Dave Chadwell, SCRIPPS)
Stress Models
Constant Stressing Rate SE
Complete Stressing Cycle
So What ? Father’s Day intrusion triggered another Slow Earthquake at Kilauea Delayed, but still the most regular faulting event ever observed instrumentally (I think) The Cayol et al. (2000) model combined with a constant stressing rate provides a simple explanation of periodicity What’s next? Hope for a rate change along East Rift Zone to test the constant stressing rate hypothesis