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Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America; December 2004; v. 94; no. 6B; p. S190-S201; DOI: 10.1785/0120040614
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Dynamic Rupture Modeling of the Transition from Thrust to Strike-Slip Motion in the 2002 Denali Fault Earthquake, Alaska

Brad T. Aagaard1, Greg Anderson2 and Ken W. Hudnut3

1 U.S. Geological Survey
MS 977
345 Middlefield Rd.
Menlo Park, California 94025
 (B.T.A.)

2 UNAVCO, Inc.
6350 Nautilus Drive
Boulder, Colorado 80301
 (G.A.)

3 U.S. Geological Survey
525 South Wilson Ave.
Pasadena, California 91106
 (K.W.H.)

We use three-dimensional dynamic (spontaneous) rupture models to investigate the nearly simultaneous ruptures of the Susitna Glacier thrust fault and the Denali strike-slip fault. With the 1957 Mw 8.3 Gobi-Altay, Mongolia, earthquake as the only other well-documented case of significant, nearly simultaneous rupture of both thrust and strike-slip faults, this feature of the 2002 Denali fault earthquake provides a unique opportunity to investigate the mechanisms responsible for development of these large, complex events. We find that the geometry of the faults and the orientation of the regional stress field caused slip on the Susitna Glacier fault to load the Denali fault. Several different stress orientations with oblique right-lateral motion on the Susitna Glacier fault replicate the triggering of rupture on the Denali fault about 10 sec after the rupture nucleates on the Susitna Glacier fault. However, generating slip directions compatible with measured surface offsets and kinematic source inversions requires perturbing the stress orientation from that determined with focal mechanisms of regional events. Adjusting the vertical component of the principal stress tensor for the regional stress field so that it is more consistent with a mixture of strike-slip and reverse faulting significantly improves the fit of the slip-rake angles to the data. Rotating the maximum horizontal compressive stress direction westward appears to improve the fit even further.




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