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Recent ETS results in NW Washington Tremor Locations and Migration during last four ETS events Locked Zone relative to Tremor Location Inter ETS Tremor.

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1 Recent ETS results in NW Washington Tremor Locations and Migration during last four ETS events Locked Zone relative to Tremor Location Inter ETS Tremor Swarms: Adds up to nearly as much as ETS tremor Gutenberg-Richter Power-Law Distribution N = A  -0.6 = a10 -0.9Mw L = A  1/n n = 2-3 Tremor depths beneath arrays are near plate interface based on S-P times from cross correlation 100 LFEs within 100 m of each other are on plate interface Down-dip limit of tremor coincides with down-dip limit of low-velocity zone below plate interface (CAFE result) Creager, Wech, Vidale, Sweet, Ghosh, Melbourne, Houston and Abers

2 Tremor Migration for four ETS events Wech, Creager and Melbourne, JGR, submitted

3 Tremor and Slip summed over 4 ETS events

4 2004, 2005, 2007 ETS Sharp western boundary to tremor Consistently 75 km from tremor to 40% locking Crustal earthquakes stop at eastern tremor boundary Tremor is most active over water

5 ETS vs inter-ETS tremor Wech, Creager and Melbourne; JGR, submitted

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7 Gutenberg-Richter Power-Law Distribution of Tremor Swarms N = A *  -0.6 log 10 N=a10 -bM w b=0.9 if moment proportional to duration Creager and Wech

8 Tremor Swarm Duration vs Length Slope=1/2 Slope=1/3 Slope=1 Creager and Wech

9 An hour of LFEs

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11 LFEs locate ~20km east of BS array at depth of ~47km, which is the depth to the plate interface at that location. Individual LFE S-P times vary by no more than 0.03s, suggesting they all locate within several hundred meters of each other.

12 La Rocca, Science, next week Checking location by cross-correlation of horizontal with vertical across 5-minute windows S-P timeZero lag

13 La Rocca, Science, 2009 Checking location thrice S-P time Beam (rainbow) and envelope (green stars)

14 LaRocca et al., Science, 2009

15 Schematic interpretation of receiver function results.

16 Abers, MacKenzie, Rondenay, Zhang, Wech, Creager, submitted, Geology

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18 ETS Every 15 months Creager & Wech * BS Array

19 Inter ETS Tremor Feb 2007 to April 2008 some patches repeat up to 5 times Creager and Wech

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22 84 sensors in a km 2, Caught 8 days with light tremor last March, then 17 days of heavy tremor passing directly underneath last May Time (days) UW dense array pilot study 1 km


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