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Keywords

  • nonvolcanic tremor
  • aseismic slow slip
  • subduction zone

Index Terms

  • Seismology: Seismicity and tectonics
  • Seismology: Subduction zones
  • Geodesy and Gravity: Transient deformation
  • Geodesy and Gravity: Satellite geodesy: results
  • Geodesy and Gravity: Seismic cycle related deformations

Abstract

Nonvolcanic tremor observed in the Mexican subduction zone

Juan S. Payero

Posgrado en Ciencias de la Tierra, Instituto de Geofísica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico

Instituto Sismológico Universitario, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Vladimir Kostoglodov

Instituto de Geofísica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico

Nikolai Shapiro

Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France

Takeshi Mikumo

Instituto de Geofísica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico

Arturo Iglesias

Instituto de Geofísica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico

Xyoli Pérez-Campos

Instituto de Geofísica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico

Robert W. Clayton

Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA

Nonvolcanic tremor (NVT) activity is revealed as episodes of higher spectral amplitude at 1–8 Hz in daily spectrograms from the continuous seismological records in Guerrero, Mexico. The analyzed data cover a period of 2001–2007 when in 2001–2002 a large slow slip event (SSE) had occurred in the Guerrero-Oaxaca region, and then a new large SSE occurred in 2006. The tremor burst is dominated by S-waves. More than 100 strong NVT bursts were recorded in the narrow band of ∼40 × 150 km2 to the south of Iguala City and parallel to the coastline. Depths of NVT hypocenters are mostly scattered in the continental crust between 5 and 40 km depth. Tremor activity is higher during the 2001–2002 and 2006 SSE compared with that for the “quiet” period of 2003–2005. While resistivity pattern in Guerrero does not correlate directly with the NVT distribution, gravity and magnetic anomaly modeling favors a hypothesis that the NVT is apparently related to the dehydration and serpentinization processes.

Received 4 December 2007; accepted 28 February 2008; published 4 April 2008.

Citation: Payero, J. S., V. Kostoglodov, N. Shapiro, T. Mikumo, A. Iglesias, X. Pérez-Campos, and R. W. Clayton (2008), Nonvolcanic tremor observed in the Mexican subduction zone, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L07305, doi:10.1029/2007GL032877.

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