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Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America; April 2008; v. 98; no. 2; p. 832-845; DOI: 10.1785/0120060412
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Special Section: The 1906 Earthquake a Century Later

Rupture Process of the 18 April 1906 California Earthquake from Near-Field Tsunami Waveform Inversion

Stefano Lorito and Alessio Piatanesi

Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Department of Seismology and Tectonophysics, Via di Vigna Murata 605, 00143 Rome, Italy lorito{at}ingv.it

Anthony Lomax

ALomax Scientific, Colette Van Dooren, 161 Allée du Micocoulier, 06370 Mouans-Sartoux, France

The 18 April 1906 M~8 California earthquake generated a small local tsunami that was recorded in the near field by the Presidio, San Francisco tide gauge located near the Golden Gate. We investigate the causative, tsunamigenic, seismic source by forward modeling and nonlinear inversion of the Presidio marigram. We use existing seismological and geological observations to fix the fault system geometry and the surface slip on the onland portions of the San Andreas fault (SAF). We perform synthetic inversions to show that the single, near-field marigram constrains the main features of the rupture on the portion of the SAF system offshore of the Golden Gate. Finally, we perform nonlinear inversions for the slip distribution and the timing of the rupture of the 1906 earthquake.

Our results, in agreement with previous studies, identify a dilatational stepover and show a bilateral rupture, possibly originating or propagated through the stepover region. We find that little or no coseismic slip on normal faults in the stepover region is required to fit the marigram, and we obtain adequate fits when allowing delays in the source initiation times of up to 3 min on the various fault segments. We constrain slip to be of about 5–6 m for the onshore portion of the SAF to the northwest of the Golden Gate, in agreement with 1906 surface observations of fault offset. Our results favor the hypothesis of a vertical dip for a currently aseismic SAF to the southeast of the Golden Gate, under the San Francisco peninsula.




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