Collaborative Research: Structural Architecture and Evolutionary Plate-Boundary Processes along the San Jacinto Fault Zone

了解地震物理学是预测断层短期行为的关键一步，对减灾具有明显的影响。这是一个项目，其目标是研究与地震破裂相关的动力学。即将进行的研究将对主要断层带的行为方式提供更全面的限制。具体而言，该项目将结合联合收割机的详细成像的圣哈辛托断层（SJF）在南加州使用阵列的特点，在地下断层带。它将与地表露头和断层带的绘图，古地震分析，地壳变形的GPS分析以及地震传播的理论工作相结合，以了解断层破坏，不同岩石类型的并列和分割等因素如何影响断层带的行为。首席研究员汇集了有关破裂过程的当前想法，并概述了一种方法，该方法可能能够定量了解活跃变形区域中断裂带结构的演变和相关变形现象（地震活动性、应变场）。这种方法需要一个框架，占故障与不断变化的几何和材料特性，以及时间依赖的孕震区和底层粘弹性基板之间的相互作用。

Understanding earthquake physics is a critical step on the road to forecasting the short-term behavior of faults with obvious consequences for hazard mitigation. This is a project whose goal is to examine the dynamics associated with earthquake rupture. The studies to be carried out will provide much more comprehensive constraints on the way that a major fault zone behaves. Specifically, the project will combine detailed imaging of the San Jacinto Fault (SJF) in Southern California using an array to characterize the fault zone in the subsurface. It will couple this with surface outcrop and mapping of the fault zone, paleoseismic analysis, GPS analysis of crustal deformation, and theoretical work on seismic propagation to understand how factors such as fault damage, juxtaposition of different rock types, and segmentation affect the behavior of the fault zone. The Principal Investigators bring together current ideas about the rupture process and outline an approach that may be able to provide a quantitative understanding of the evolution of fault zone structures and related deformation phenomena (seismicity, strain fields) in actively deforming regions. This approach requires a framework that accounts for faults with evolving geometrical and material properties, as well as time-dependent interactions between the seismogenic zone and underlying viscoelastic substrate.