[IGSMAIL-6362] DEOS/DUT IGS Network Co-seismic Displacements from the March 11, 2011 M8.9 Earthquake in Japan

Wim Simons W.J.F.Simons at tudelft.nl
Sun Mar 13 19:49:06 PDT 2011


Dear colleagues,

 

Following the Mw 8.9 earthquake in Japan last Friday, we made a first
detailed GPS analysis over the weekend at DEOS/DUT (related to our ongoing
co- and post-seismic GPS modelling research of the 2004 Mw 9.2
Sumatra-Andaman earthquake) that includes all operational IGS stations in
Asia.  The presented results use a combination of both static and kinematic
mode in the JPL GIPSY-OASIS software.  

 

In static (bias-fixed) mode we analyzed an IGS network subset (57 stations)
10 days prior to the earthquake (GPS days 60-69) to get a good co-seismic
deformation reference solution, followed by the 2 days after the earthquake
(GPS days 70-71). These 2 post-quake solutions were averaged whereby station
solutions with significant post-seismic motions on the second day were
omitted. This averaged post-quake solution was then projected onto the
pre-quake 10-day averaged solution using all (regional/global)IGS stations
(38 in total) that were not affected by the earthquake. Finally the
resulting (far-field) co-seismic displacements were reduced by 7% to remove
the accumulated post-seismic deformation in the first 24 hours (percentage
based on our recent revisit of the Mw 8.5 Bengkulu 2007 earthquake near
Sumatra, Indonesia)   

 

In kinematic (bias-free) mode we analyzed GPS day 070 for the IGS stations
located most close to the epicentre (MIZU, TSKB, TSK2, MTKA and USUD).  For
days 65-71 the JPL Rapid GPS orbit and clock products were used.  As already
explained by Susan Owen in her IGS mail the resulting co-seismic
displacements are computed by GIPSY as absolute values.  The kinematic mode
(whereby typically five 5-minute position estimates before and after the
earthquake were averaged and subsequently differenced) was extremely useful
to determine the "pure" near-field co-seismic displacements caused by the Mw
8.9 earthquake.  In static mode the daily (post-quake) averaged positions
are already significantly polluted by post-seismic motions and an additional
co-seismic jump on day 070 at TSKB/TSK2 (-3.5/18.5/-2.5 cm N/E/U) and MTKA
(0/7.5/-1.5 cm N/E/U) from the Mw 6.8 quake that followed about 30 minutes
later.  Also MIZU apparently ceased to operate on day 070 at 06:00 UTC,
about 15 minutes after the earthquake. 

 

Below our first co-seismic displacement table is included.  For the
co-seismic displacements estimated in static mode the errors (at 95% C.L.)
should be within 1 and 2.5 cm for respectively the horizontal and vertical
displacements. In kinematic mode errors up to a couple cm are still
possible. IGS stations up to a distance of 5000 km have been included.  The
detectable co-seismic displacements extend more than 2000 km away in both NW
(China/Russia) and SE (beyond the Bonin Islands (Ogasawara)) direction.  At
first look the far-field displacements appear to be only about half the size
of the first predictions posted here by Jeff Freymueller. They also appear
to extend not as far as those of the Mw 9.2 Sumatra-Andaman quake.  This
could indicate that the actual magnitude is smaller than the Mw 8.9-9.0
reported values.  

 

We release these results to the international community as especially the
far-field co-seismic displacements can contribute to the already extensive
near-field GPS solutions made possible by the GEONET GPS network in Japan.
The far-field GPS solutions may provide additional good constraints to the
already ongoing geophysical/seismological modelling (rupture length, slip
distribution) of the earthquake. 

 

If you find these solutions useful please credit them accordingly as "GPS
co-seismic displacements (version 1.0) in the IGS GNSS network from the
March 11, 2011 Mw 8.9 earthquake provided by the GEO2TECDI team at DEOS,
Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands".

 

Site  Date  Type   Lat      Lon      Height   Dnorth  Dn SD    Deast   De SD
Dup    Du SD   #sol  Distance NECorr

                  (deg)    (deg)      (m)      (mm)   (mm)      (mm)   (mm)
(mm)   (mm)   bef/aft  (km)

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MIZU 11MAR11 CP  39.1352  141.1328    0.118 -1140.13 (15.81)  2077.35
(14.10)  -101.76 (16.46) (k6/ 1) d:  231 -0.083

TSKB 11MAR11 CP  36.1057  140.0875   67.180    90.64 (10.46)   324.11 (
6.26)   -49.23 (11.64) (k6/ 5) d:  315 -0.087

TSK2 11MAR11 CP  36.1056  140.0871   69.860    89.76 ( 8.27)   326.14 (
8.26)   -60.60 ( 6.88) (k6/ 5) d:  315 -0.097

MTKA 11MAR11 CP  35.6795  139.5614  108.906    52.37 ( 8.52)   145.31 (
8.43)   -27.61 (21.19) (k6/ 5) d:  381 -0.118

USUD 11MAR11 CP  36.1331  138.3620 1508.588    48.36 ( 5.15)   173.68 (
6.63)    20.79 (14.39) (k6/ 5) d:  449 -0.077

STK2 11MAR11 CP  43.5286  141.8448  118.559   -23.19 ( 1.74)    12.96 (
1.91)    -7.49 ( 9.15) (10/ 1) d:  656 -0.037

YSSK 11MAR11 CP  47.0297  142.7167   91.299    -1.21 ( 1.78)    -0.23 (
0.71)    -7.14 ( 2.98) (10/ 2) d: 1037 -0.065

CCJ2 11MAR11 CP  27.0675  142.1950  104.217     0.43 ( 1.92)    -5.51 (
1.74)   -13.87 ( 6.46) (10/ 2) d: 1177 -0.031

AIRA 11MAR11 CP  31.8241  130.5996  314.652     2.39 ( 3.81)     7.33 (
6.00)    -7.32 (13.28) (10/ 1) d: 1306 -0.072

KHAJ 11MAR11 CP  48.5215  135.0462  130.474    -9.71 ( 1.27)     5.24 (
1.80)    -5.00 ( 2.30) (10/ 2) d: 1364 -0.123

DAEJ 11MAR11 CP  36.3994  127.3745  116.844     1.88 ( 0.88)    18.37 (
2.06)    -2.87 ( 2.95) (10/ 2) d: 1395 -0.122

SUWN 11MAR11 CP  37.2755  127.0542   82.272     1.11 ( 1.30)    19.05 (
2.42)    -1.43 ( 3.16) (10/ 2) d: 1409 -0.299

CHAN 11MAR11 CP  43.7907  125.4442  273.267    -6.59 ( 0.98)    14.48 (
1.49)     0.91 ( 2.10) (10/ 2) d: 1624 -0.114

MCIL 11MAR11 CP  24.2901  153.9787   35.660     6.89 ( 1.44)   -11.09 (
1.04)    -6.99 ( 3.86) (10/ 2) d: 1806  0.006

PETS 11MAR11 CP  53.0233  158.6501  102.079     1.59 ( 1.15)    -2.03 (
1.00)    -5.27 ( 7.58) (10/ 2) d: 2079  0.164

SHAO 11MAR11 CP  31.0996  121.2004   22.056     1.09 ( 1.38)     2.27 (
2.09)    -1.92 ( 3.32) (10/ 2) d: 2120 -0.116

BJFS 11MAR11 CP  39.6086  115.8925   87.454    -0.94 ( 1.44)     4.29 (
1.28)     4.90 ( 3.42) ( 8/ 2) d: 2349 -0.097

CNMR 11MAR11 CP  15.2297  145.7431   64.384    -0.75 ( 6.62)    -0.46 (
6.71)    -6.17 (22.68) (10/ 1) d: 2485  0.089

TWTF 11MAR11 CP  24.9536  121.1645  201.531    -1.09 ( 1.25)    -0.62 (
1.72)    -1.46 ( 4.95) (10/ 2) d: 2488 -0.110

TNML 11MAR11 CP  24.7980  120.9873   75.873    -1.43 ( 0.37)     0.15 (
2.00)     0.65 ( 6.55) ( 9/ 2) d: 2512 -0.092

TCMS 11MAR11 CP  24.7980  120.9874   77.253    -1.04 ( 1.50)    -0.31 (
2.57)    -2.17 ( 7.00) (10/ 2) d: 2512 -0.096

GUAM 11MAR11 CP  13.5893  144.8684  201.919    -0.05 ( 3.15)    -4.15 (
6.59)    -0.27 (10.18) (10/ 1) d: 2655 -0.070

GUUG 11MAR11 CP  13.4332  144.8027  134.724    -1.36 ( 1.09)    -2.93 (
2.89)   -10.26 (18.58) (10/ 2) d: 2671  0.021

WUHN 11MAR11 CP  30.5317  114.3573   25.882     0.96 ( 1.10)    -0.55 (
2.91)     4.80 ( 5.54) (10/ 2) d: 2728 -0.104

YAKT 11MAR11 CP  62.0310  129.6803  103.406    -0.43 ( 2.28)    -1.42 (
0.92)    12.23 (10.96) (10/ 2) d: 2836 -0.152

ULAB 11MAR11 CP  47.8651  107.0523 1575.543     0.87 ( 2.88)     0.06 (
1.84)     4.35 (11.83) (10/ 2) d: 3089 -0.042

PIMO 11MAR11 CP  14.6357  121.0777   95.535    -0.83 ( 3.62)    -2.06 (
4.75)    -8.58 (12.79) (10/ 1) d: 3309 -0.092

IRKJ 11MAR11 CP  52.2190  104.3162  502.042     0.06 ( 1.60)     1.08 (
1.89)     0.14 (12.15) (10/ 2) d: 3360 -0.032

IRKT 11MAR11 CP  52.2190  104.3162  502.352    -1.45 ( 1.00)     0.85 (
2.98)     2.01 (12.42) (10/ 2) d: 3360 -0.024

KUNM 11MAR11 CP  25.0295  102.7972 1986.211     0.89 ( 4.60)    -0.27 (
5.92)    -6.68 (21.92) (10/ 1) d: 3974 -0.078

URUM 11MAR11 CP  43.8079   87.6007  858.862     1.53 ( 2.08)     0.42 (
1.20)    -0.80 (11.79) (10/ 2) d: 4541  0.024

LHAZ 11MAR11 CP  29.6573   91.1040 3624.610     1.84 ( 1.11)    -0.47 (
1.30)    -0.70 (12.23) (10/ 2) d: 4721  0.074

CUSV 11MAR11 CP  13.7359  100.5339   74.294    -0.63 ( 3.17)    -1.91 (
4.16)     1.52 ( 5.63) (10/ 2) d: 4836 -0.054

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CP: "pure" co-seismic displacements / k: kinematic solution, # 5-min epochs
or daily solutions before and after quake

 

I hope you will appreciate our efforts.  Please don't hesitate to contact me
if you require additional information regarding this analysis. 

 

Sincerely,

 

Wim Simons

 

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Wim J.F. Simons - Research Associate    phone: +31 15 2782043

DEOS, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering  fax: +31 15 2785322

Delft University of Technology          E-mail: W.J.F.Simons at tudelft.nl

Kluyverweg 1                            www: http://www.deos.tudelft.nl

NL-2629 HS Delft, The Netherlands

 

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