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Data Publication

Surface displacement and strain data from laboratory subduction megathrust earthquake cycles

Kosari, Ehsan | Rosenau, Matthias | Metzger, Sabrina | Oncken, Onno

GFZ Data Services

(2023)

This data set is digital image correlation data, including surface displacement and strain data from laboratory subduction megathrust earthquake cycles. The data consists of grids of surface strain (elastic and permanent), trench-normal surface displacement, vorticity and divergence maps over analog seismic cycles, and time series of surface displacement. The data have been derived using a stereo camera setup and processed with LaVision Davis 10 software. Detailed descriptions of the experiments and results regarding the surface pattern of the strain can be found in Kosari et al. (2023), to which this data set is supplementary. We use three configurations to mimic the along-strike heterogeneous spatiotemporal distribution of frictional locking (Rosenau et al., 2019; Kosari et al., 2022b). A central patch separates two stick-slip zones as an aseismic barrier in all configurations. The frictional properties of the central patch vary as a velocity-strengthening (VS configuration), a velocity-neutral (VN), and a velocity-weakening (VW configuration). The VW zone generates smaller slip events with a higher frequency (i.e., recurrence interval) than the stick-slip zones. Four frictionally different materials have been emplaced on the interface: The sticky-rice as velocity-weakening material (a-b<0) resulting in stick-slip cycles simulating earthquake cycles, fine-grained sugar and rubber-sand mixture as velocity-strengthening (a-b>0) and velocity-neutral (a-b=0) material, and fine-grained salt as velocity-weakening material (a-b<0) (Kosari et al., 2023).

Keywords


Originally assigned keywords
Seismotectonic modeling
Analog Modeling
Digital Image Correlation DIC
Particle Image Velocimetry PIV
EPOS
multiscale laboratories
analogue models of geologic processes
analogue modelling results
TECTONIC PROCESSES
SUBDUCTION
TECTONIC UPLIFT
EARTHQUAKES

Corresponding MSL vocabulary keywords
analogue modelling
digital image correlation (DIC)
particle image velocimetry (PIV)
subduction

MSL enriched keywords
Apparatus
analogue modelling
Software
digital image correlation (DIC)
particle image velocimetry (PIV)
tectonic plate boundary
convergent tectonic plate boundary
subduction
Measured property
strain
Measured property
strain
subducting plate interface
tectonic deformation structure
tectonic fault
thrust fault
unconsolidated sediment
clastic sediment
sand
analogue modelling material
elastic modelling material
natural elastic material
natural rubber
Apparatus
deformation testing
shear testing
friction - controlled slip rate
rate and state friction (RSF) parameters
Inferred deformation behavior
deformation behaviour
frictional deformation
Ancillary equipment
model surface monitoring (2D)
camera
friction - controlled slip rate
rate and state friction (RSF) parameters
trench

MSL original sub domains

analogue modelling of geologic processes

MSL enriched sub domains i

analogue modelling of geologic processes
rock and melt physics


Source publisher

GFZ Data Services


DOI

10.5880/GFZ.4.1.2023.005


Authors

Kosari, Ehsan

0000-0002-1052-4997

GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany

Rosenau, Matthias

0000-0003-1134-5381

GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany

Metzger, Sabrina

0000-0002-0803-6599

GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany

Oncken, Onno

0000-0002-2894-480X

GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany


References

Kosari, E., Rosenau, M., Metzger, S., & Oncken, O. (2023). Along-strike seismotectonic segmentation reflecting megathrust seismogenic behavior. Geology, 51(8), 707–712. https://doi.org/10.1130/g51115.1

10.1130/G51115.1

IsSupplementTo

Adam, J., Urai, J. L., Wieneke, B., Oncken, O., Pfeiffer, K., Kukowski, N., Lohrmann, J., Hoth, S., van der Zee, W., & Schmatz, J. (2005). Shear localisation and strain distribution during tectonic faulting—new insights from granular-flow experiments and high-resolution optical image correlation techniques. Journal of Structural Geology, 27(2), 283–301. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2004.08.008

10.1016/j.jsg.2004.08.008

Cites

Kosari, E., Rosenau, M., Bedford, J., Rudolf, M., & Oncken, O. (2020). On the Relationship Between Offshore Geodetic Coverage and Slip Model Uncertainty: Analog Megathrust Earthquake Case Studies. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(15). Portico. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020gl088266

10.1029/2020GL088266

Cites

Kosari, E., Rosenau, M., & Oncken, O. (2022). Strain Signals Governed by Frictional‐Elastoplastic Interaction of the Upper Plate and Shallow Subduction Megathrust Interface Over Seismic Cycles. Tectonics, 41(5). Portico. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021tc007099

10.1029/2021TC007099

Cites

Rosenau, M., Corbi, F., & Dominguez, S. (2017). Analogue earthquakes and seismic cycles: experimental modelling across timescales. Solid Earth, 8(3), 597–635. https://doi.org/10.5194/se-8-597-2017

10.5194/se-8-597-2017

Cites

Rosenau, M., Horenko, I., Corbi, F., Rudolf, M., Kornhuber, R., & Oncken, O. (2019). Synchronization of Great Subduction Megathrust Earthquakes: Insights From Scale Model Analysis. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124(4), 3646–3661. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018jb016597

10.1029/2018JB016597

Cites


Contact

Kosari, Ehsan

ehsan.kosari@gfz-potsdam.de

GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany

Rosenau, Matthias

rosen@gfz-potsdam.de

GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany


Citiation

Kosari, E., Rosenau, M., Metzger, S., & Oncken, O. (2023). Surface displacement and strain data from laboratory subduction megathrust earthquake cycles [Data set]. GFZ Data Services. https://doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.4.1.2023.005