Print Email Facebook Twitter Source parameters and radiation efficiency for intermediate-depth earthquakes in Northeast Japan Title Source parameters and radiation efficiency for intermediate-depth earthquakes in Northeast Japan Author Nishitsuji, Y. Mori, J. Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Geoscience & Engineering Date 2013-12-05 Abstract We estimated source parameters of 216 intermediate-depth (65–150 km) earthquakes (Mw 4.0–7.0) in the Pacific slab beneath Japan along using Hi-net data. We made determinations of static stress drop, radiated energy and radiation efficiency, along with estimates of the whole path attenuation, to study the source scaling as a function of earthquake size and depth. Our results show that there is a small increase in the values of the ratio of radiated energy to seismicmoment, as a function of seismic moment, which is due to an associated slight increase of static stress drop with earthquake size. We also estimated the radiation efficiency for these events using the static stress drops and radiated energies. The values of radiation efficiency are slightly lower compared to shallow crustal earthquakes. These results indicate that dissipative energy processes may be relatively more important for intermediate-depth earthquakes. Subject body wavesearthquake source observationsstatistical seismology To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:02959505-62b7-4acb-a669-8b954f011307 DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggt458 Publisher Oxford University Press ISSN 0956-540X Source Geophysical Journal International, 196 (2), 2014 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2013 The Author(s) Files PDF 303304.pdf 1.31 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:02959505-62b7-4acb-a669-8b954f011307/datastream/OBJ/view