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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Heterogeneities along the 2009 L'Aquila normal fault inferred by the b‐value distribution
Contributor:
De Gori, Pasquale;
Lucente, Francesco Pio;
Lombardi, Anna Maria;
Chiarabba, Claudio;
Montuori, Caterina
imprint:
American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2012
Published in:Geophysical Research Letters
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1029/2012gl052822
ISSN:
0094-8276;
1944-8007
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<jats:p>In this study we map the distribution of the b‐value of the Gutenberg‐Richter law—as well as complementary seismicity parameters—along the fault responsible for the 2009 M<jats:sub>W</jats:sub>6.1 L'Aquila earthquake. We perform the calculations for two independent aftershock sub‐catalogs, before and after a stable magnitude of completeness is reached. We find a substantial spatial variability of the b‐values, which range from 0.6 to 1.3 over the fault plane. The comparison between the spatial distribution of the b‐values and the main‐shock slip pattern shows that the largest slip occurs in normal‐to‐high b‐values portion of the fault plane, while low b‐value is observed close to the main‐shock nucleation. No substantial differences are found in the b‐value computed before and after the main‐shock struck in the small region of the fault plane populated by foreshocks.</jats:p>