Time-advanced occurrence of moderate-size earthquakes in a stable intraplate region after a megathrust earthquake and their seismic properties

Tae Kyung Hong; Junhyung Lee; Seongjun Park; Woohan Kim

doi:10.1038/s41598-018-31600-5

Time-advanced occurrence of moderate-size earthquakes in a stable intraplate region after a megathrust earthquake and their seismic properties

Tae Kyung Hong, Junhyung Lee, Seongjun Park, Woohan Kim

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The distance-dependent coseismic and postseismic displacements produced by the 2011 M_W9.0 Tohoku-Oki megathrust earthquake caused medium weakening and stress perturbation in the crust around the Korean Peninsula, increasing the seismicity with successive M_L5-level earthquakes at the outskirts of high seismicity regions. The average M_L5-level occurrence rate prior to the megathrust earthquake was 0.15 yr⁻¹ (0.05–0.35 yr⁻¹ at a 95% confidence level), and the rate has increased to 0.71 yr⁻¹ (0.23–1.67 yr⁻¹ at a 95% confidence level) since the megathrust earthquake. The 2016 M_L5-level midcrustal earthquakes additionally changed the stress field in adjacent regions, inducing the 15 November 2017 M_L5.4 earthquake. The successive 2016 and 2017 moderate-size earthquakes built complex stress fields in the southeastern Korean Peninsula, increasing the seismic hazard risks in the regions of long-term stress accumulation. The increased seismic risks may continue until the medium properties and stress field are recovered.

Original language	English
Article number	13331
Journal	Scientific reports
Volume	8
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-31600-5
Publication status	Published - 2018 Dec 1

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The analysis results from the processed data are presented in the supporting information. The seismicity and station information are available from the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA, www.jma.go.jp/jma/indexe.html). This work was supported by grant 2017-MPSS31-007 from the Supporting Technology Development Program for Disaster Management funded by the Korean Ministry of Interior and Safety (MOIS) and by grant NRF-2017R1A6A1A07015374 from the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education.

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