Abstract
Abstract The stress released by the large coseismic ruptures and related aftershock sequences is strongly a heterogeneous process. We show highly resolved images of the normal fault system ruptured during the 2016–2017 central Italy earthquake sequence, as obtained by the high-resolution local earthquake tomography allowing relocation of a massive set of aftershocks. We get evidence that lateral changes of elastic properties on the fault planes account for the complexity in the rupture processes during the two Mw > 6 earthquakes. We observe an emergent phase in the first part of the Mw 6.5 rupture, and the coseismic slip becomes large when the rupture breaks through high Poisson ratio portions of the fault. Mainshocks break the fault portions that, although limited and segmented by inherited structural complexity, were dynamically interfering during the faulting episodes. The close repetition of slip on the same relatively high Poisson ratio patch suggests a dynamic weakening of the fault and/or an incomplete stress release during the first mainshock.
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