Abstract
AbstractWe combine multi‐array relative back‐projection of high‐frequency P waves and finite‐fault modeling of low‐frequency P waves from the 8 September 2017 Mw 8.2 Chiapas, Mexico earthquake to image unilateral rupture on a southeast‐northwest striking subvertical fault plane over depths of 10–70 km. Improved multi‐array relative back‐projection estimates of rupture speed and fault geometry provide key refinements to the slip model from finite‐fault modeling. Compilation of prior seismicity and aftershocks reveals the earthquake initiated in the lower plane of a double Benioff zone (DBZ) and ruptured with large slip across the entire DBZ. The previously aseismic interior does not appear to be due to lack of stress as both planes show downdip extension stresses. Instead, tomographic imaging of DBZs find high Poisson's ratio with fast velocities in the DBZ interior, so we propose that highly hydrated harzburgite generates velocity‐strengthening behavior that inhibits earthquake nucleation, yet it can slip seismically during dynamic weakening from a large throughgoing rupture.
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