Fast and slow intraplate ruptures during the 19 October 2020 magnitude 7.6 Shumagin earthquake

Yefei Bai (), Chengli Liu (), Thorne Lay, Kwok Fai Cheung and Yoshiki Yamazaki
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Yefei Bai: Zhejiang University
Chengli Liu: China University of Geosciences
Thorne Lay: University of California Santa Cruz
Kwok Fai Cheung: University of Hawaii at Manoa
Yoshiki Yamazaki: University of Hawaii at Manoa

Nature Communications, 2023, vol. 14, issue 1, 1-16

Abstract: Abstract Strong tsunami excitation from slow rupture of shallow subduction zone faults is recognized as a key concern for tsunami hazard assessment. Three months after the 22 July 2020 magnitude 7.8 thrust earthquake struck the plate boundary below the Shumagin Islands, Alaska, a magnitude 7.6 aftershock ruptured with complex intraplate faulting. Despite the smaller size and predominantly strike-slip faulting mechanism inferred from seismic waves for the aftershock, it generated much larger tsunami waves than the mainshock. Here we show through detailed analysis of seismic, geodetic, and tsunami observations of the aftershock that the event implicated unprecedented source complexity, involving weakly tsunamigenic fast rupture of two intraplate faults located below and most likely above the plate boundary, along with induced strongly tsunamigenic slow thrust slip on a third fault near the shelf break likely striking nearly perpendicular to the trench. The thrust slip took over 5 min, giving no clear expression in seismic or geodetic observations while producing the sizeable far-field tsunami.

Date: 2023
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