Quantifying variability in earthquake rupture models using multidimensional scaling: application to the 2011 Tohoku earthquake
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Computational Earthquake Seismology (CES) Research GroupComputer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division
Earth Science and Engineering Program
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
Spatio-Temporal Statistics and Data Analysis Group
Statistics Program
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2015-04-22Online Publication Date
2015-04-22Print Publication Date
2015-07-01Permanent link to this record
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Finite-fault earthquake source inversion is an ill-posed inverse problem leading to non-unique solutions. In addition, various fault parametrizations and input data may have been used by different researchers for the same earthquake. Such variability leads to large intra-event variability in the inferred rupture models. One way to understand this problem is to develop robust metrics to quantify model variability. We propose a Multi Dimensional Scaling (MDS) approach to compare rupture models quantitatively. We consider normalized squared and grey-scale metrics that reflect the variability in the location, intensity and geometry of the source parameters. We test the approach on two-dimensional random fields generated using a von Kármán autocorrelation function and varying its spectral parameters. The spread of points in the MDS solution indicates different levels of model variability. We observe that the normalized squared metric is insensitive to variability of spectral parameters, whereas the grey-scale metric is sensitive to small-scale changes in geometry. From this benchmark, we formulate a similarity scale to rank the rupture models. As case studies, we examine inverted models from the Source Inversion Validation (SIV) exercise and published models of the 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku earthquake, allowing us to test our approach for a case with a known reference model and one with an unknown true solution. The normalized squared and grey-scale metrics are respectively sensitive to the overall intensity and the extension of the three classes of slip (very large, large, and low). Additionally, we observe that a three-dimensional MDS configuration is preferable for models with large variability. We also find that the models for the Tohoku earthquake derived from tsunami data and their corresponding predictions cluster with a systematic deviation from other models. We demonstrate the stability of the MDS point-cloud using a number of realizations and jackknife tests, for both the random field and the case studies.Citation
Quantifying variability in earthquake rupture models using multidimensional scaling: application to the 2011 Tohoku earthquake 2015, 202 (1):17 Geophysical Journal InternationalPublisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)Additional Links
http://gji.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/doi/10.1093/gji/ggv088ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1093/gji/ggv088