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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Geophysical Research : Solid Earth Année : 2016

3-D velocity structure in southern Haiti from local earthquake tomography

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We investigate 3-D local earthquake tomography for high-quality travel time arrivals from aftershocks following the 2010 M7.0 Haiti earthquake on the Léogâne fault. The data were recorded by 35 stations, including 19 ocean bottom seismometers, from which we selected 595 events to simultaneously invert for hypocenter location and 3-D Vp and Vs velocity structures in southern Haiti. We performed several resolution tests and concluded that clear features can be recovered to a depth of 15 km. At 5 km depth we distinguish a broad low-velocity zone in the Vp and Vs structure offshore near Gonave Island, which correlate with layers of marine sediments. Results show a pronounced low-velocity zone in the upper 5 km across the city of Léogâne, which is consistent with the sedimentary basin location from geologic map. At 10 km depth, we detect a low-velocity anomaly offshore near the Trois Baies fault and a NW-SE directed low-velocity zone onshore across Petit-Goâve and Jacmel, which is consistent with a suspected fault from a previous study and that we refer to it in our study as the Petit-Goâve-Jacmel fault. These observations suggest that low-velocity structures delineate fault structures and the sedimentary basins across the southern peninsula, which is extremely useful for seismic hazard assessment in Haiti.
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R. Douilly, William L. Ellsworth, E. Kissling, Andrew M. Freed, Anne Deschamps, et al.. 3-D velocity structure in southern Haiti from local earthquake tomography. Journal of Geophysical Research : Solid Earth, 2016, 121 (12), pp.8813 - 8832. ⟨10.1002/2016JB013123⟩. ⟨hal-01527925⟩
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