TECTONIC STRESS FIELD AT INTERMEDIATE DEPTHS OF THE SOUTHERN FLANK OF THE KURIL-KAMCHATKA SEISMIC ZONE
https://doi.org/10.5800/GT-2021-12-4-0564
Abstract
The study has been done on the orientation of the principal axes of tectonic stress field at intermediate depths of earthquakes of the southern flank of the Kuril-Kamchatka subduction system separately for the upper and lower double seismic focal zones. Use has been made of the NIED and GlobalCMT catalogue data. The computation-based results are presented on schemes of the stressed state of the investigated areas and in tables. In the context of the southern Kuril Islands, evidence has been provided for predominance of the maximum compressive stresses along the slab plane in the upper layer and minimal compressive stresses (deviation extension) in the lower layer. However, the principal axes of maximum and minimum compression are displaced in direction relative to the slab dip: by 30–40° counterclockwise for the compression axis in the upper layer, which coincides with the direction of plate movement, and clockwise for the extension axis in the lower layer. This might be caused by the right-lateral strike-slip component of the Pacific Plate subduction. Unlike the general trend, the orientation of the principal axes of the stress field beneath the central Hokkaido-related segments in the upper layer is almost identical to that in the lower layer. There have also been found the segments exposed to shear stress, with the most extensive located opposite the northern Kunashir Island and beneath the southern Hokkaido Island. The results obtained for major large groups of clusters show good accordance with those published by other authors. The discrepancies relate primarily to small groups of isolated clusters showing local stress field heterogeneities.
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Supporting agencies: The work was funded from the government budget for the IMGG FEB RAS
About the Author
D. A. Safonov
Institute of Marine Geology and Geophysics, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Alexander N. Semenov
1B Nauki St, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk 693022
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Safonov D.A. TECTONIC STRESS FIELD AT INTERMEDIATE DEPTHS OF THE SOUTHERN FLANK OF THE KURIL-KAMCHATKA SEISMIC ZONE. Geodynamics & Tectonophysics. 2021;12(4):929-950. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.5800/GT-2021-12-4-0564
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