Numerical study of the 1996 Chimbote slow earthquake and tsunami (7.6 Mw)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15381/rif.v18i1.11578Keywords:
Slow earthquake, numerical modeling, tsunamiAbstract
On February 21, 1996, an earthquake shook the northern region of Peru. This event generated a tsunami with 2-3 m height waves. From the analysis and the signal processing of 15 broadband teleseismic stations, a waveform inversion was performed to obtain the focal mechanism and source time function indicating a complex rupture process. The total duration of the rupture was 75 s, a rather high value for a relatively small earthquake. The calculated scalar seismic moment was 3.8 × 1020 Nm, which corresponds to a moment magnitude of 7.6 Mw. The slip distribution is heterogeneous, consistent with the source time function, with a maximum slip of 6.6 m around the main asperity concentrated in an area of 30×30 km2. Coseismic deformation field was calculated for 28 sub-faults, which was used as the initial condition of the tsunami propagation. Synthetics mareograms were calculated for Chimbote and Salaverry with maximum heights of 1.8 m and 1.0 m, respectively.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2015 C. Jiménez, M. Calvo, H. Tavera
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
THE AUTHORS RETAIN THEIR RIGHTS:
a. The authors retain their trademark and patent rights, as well as any process or procedure described in the article.
b. The authors retain the right to share, copy, distribute, perform and publicly communicate the article published in the Revista de Investigación de Física (for example, place it in an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in the Revista de Investigación de Física.
c. The authors retain the right to make a subsequent publication of their work, to use the article or any part of it (for example: a compilation of their works, notes for conferences, thesis, or for a book), provided that they indicate the source. of publication (authors of the work, journal, volume, number and date).
