@article{LetortRetailleauBoueetal.2018, author = {Letort, Jean and Retailleau, Lise and Boue, Pierre and Radiguet, Mathilde and Gardonio, Blandine and Cotton, Fabrice and Campillo, Michel}, title = {Lateral variations of the Guerrero-Oaxaca subduction zone (Mexico) derived from weak seismicity (M(b)3.5+) detected on a single array at teleseismic distance}, series = {Geophysical journal international}, volume = {213}, journal = {Geophysical journal international}, number = {2}, publisher = {Oxford Univ. Press}, address = {Oxford}, issn = {0956-540X}, doi = {10.1093/gji/ggy035}, pages = {1002 -- 1012}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Detections of pP and sP phase arrivals (the so-called depth phases) at teleseismic distance provide one of the best ways to estimate earthquake focal depth, as the P-pP and the P-sP delays are strongly dependent on the depth. Based on a new processing workflow and using a single seismic array at teleseismic distance, we can estimate the depth of clusters of small events down to magnitude M-b 3.5. Our method provides a direct view of the relative variations of the seismicity depth from an active area. This study focuses on the application of this new methodology to study the lateral variations of the Guerrero subduction zone (Mexico) using the Eielson seismic array in Alaska (USA). After denoising the signals, 1232 M-b 3.5 + events were detected, with clear P, pP, sP and PcP arrivals. A high-resolution view of the lateral variations of the depth of the seismicity of the Guerero-Oaxaca area is thus obtained. The seismicity is shown to be mainly clustered along the interface, coherently following the geometry of the plate as constrained by the receiver-function analysis along the Meso America Subduction Experiment profile. From this study, the hypothesis of tears on the western part of Guerrero and the eastern part of Oaxaca are strongly confirmed by dramatic lateral changes in the depth of the earthquake clusters. The presence of these two tears might explain the observed lateral variations in seismicity, which is correlated with the boundaries of the slow slip events.}, language = {en} } @article{KruegerKulikovaLandgraf2018, author = {Kr{\"u}ger, Frank and Kulikova, Galina and Landgraf, Angela}, title = {Magnitudes for the historical 1885 (Belovodskoe), the 1887 (Verny) and the 1889 (Chilik) earthquakes in Central Asia determined from magnetogram recordings}, series = {Geophysical journal international}, volume = {215}, journal = {Geophysical journal international}, number = {3}, publisher = {Oxford Univ. Press}, address = {Oxford}, issn = {0956-540X}, doi = {10.1093/gji/ggy377}, pages = {1824 -- 1840}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Six large magnitude earthquakes in Central Asia which occurred at the end of the 19th century were recorded on early magnetographs in Great Britain. Scalar seismic moment estimates of the 1911 Chon-Kemin, the 1902 Atushi and the 1907 Karatag earthquakes in Central Asia were recently determined by historical seismogram modelling. For those events, we find agreement between moment magnitudes estimated from seismograms and from magnetograms. This supports the assumption of linear scaling of magnetogram amplitudes as function of M-0, which we then use to estimate the moment magnitudes for earlier large-magnitude events, that is, the 1885 Belovodskoe, 1887 Verny and 1889 Chilik earthquakes. The magnetometer data imply that the Chilik earthquake had M(W)7.9, slightly smaller than the Chon-Kemin event with M(W)8.0. The Verny earthquake, however, for which we estimate M(W)7.7, is likely larger than listed in catalogues (M7.3). Similarly, we find a larger magnitude M(W)7.6 (instead of the previous M6.9) for the Belovodskoe earthquake, but this remains uncertain due to measurement imprecision.}, language = {en} }