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Great Cascadia megathrust earthquakes:
Past, present, and future
Kelin Wang
Pacific Geoscience Centre, Geological Survey of Canada,
Natural Resources Canada
January 26, 2017,On the 317th anniversary
of the AD 1700 great Cascadia earthquake
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Kelin Wang
Research Scientist
Geological Survey of Canada
Natural Resources Canada
Megathrust earthquakes and their
tsunamis pose threat to
communities along much of the
west coast of North America.
Without an instrumentally recorded
great Cascadia earthquake, our
knowledge of these events that
guides risk mitigation is based on
geological observations, geodetic
monitoring, geophysical modeling,
and global comparison. In this
webinar, Kelin Wang will review the
state of knowledge of relevant
observational and theoretical
studies and discuss remaining
scientific challenges.
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Where I live
Rupture zone of M ~ 9 Cascadia earthquake, 1700
M 7.3, 1946
M 6.8, 2001
The ascadia Subduction ZoneM 7.8, 2012
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2015
Chile
Mw 8.3
Cascadia in global context
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From 1900 – 2004: 71 (Every 18 months)
From 2004 – 2015: 19 (Every 7 months)
Number of great (M 8) earthquakes:
(Lay, 2015 EPSL)
1960Chile 9.5 1965
Alaska 9.22004
Sumatra 9.2
2011Japan 9.0
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2004
Sumatra
9.2
2011
Tohoku
9.0
> 50 m
14 m
Chlieh et al. (2008)
Shao et al., 2012
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2004
Sumatra
9.2
14 m
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2004
Sumatra
9.2
14 m
2011
Tohoku
9.0
> 50 m
200 km
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2004
Sumatra
9.2
2011
Tohoku
9.0
> 50 m
14 m
Different types of giant earthquakes
1. Tohoku type (compact):
small rupture, short duration, huge slip;
locally strong patch
2. Sumatra type (spread-out):
long rupture, long duration, smaller slip;
no locally strong patch
Lay and Kanamori (2011)
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2004
Sumatra
9.2
2011
Tohoku
9.0
> 50 m
14 m
1964
Alasaka
9.2
Lay and Kanamori (2011)
200 km
Freymueller et al.
2009
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2011
Tohoku
9.0
1964
Alasaka
9.2
2004
Sumatra
9.2
200 km
> 50 m
14 m
1960
Chile
9.5
40 m
20 m
Moreno et al., 2009
What about
Cascadia?
Wang et al., 2013
1700
Cascadia
~ 9.0
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Cascadia:The day before yesterday
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Between
Earthquakes
Earthquake
Great Earthquakes Recorded
in Coastal Geology
From Brian AtwaterCoos Bay
From Brian Atwater
Sand sheet 1680-1720
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(Atwater et al., 2005)
Great Cascadia earthquake of Jan. 26, 1700, recorded in Japan
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(Satake, Wang, Atwater. 2003 JGR)
Great Cascadia earthquake of Jan. 26, 1700, recorded in Japan
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13
Great Earthquakes Recorded in Seafloor Sediment Deposits
(Goldfinger et al., 2005)
(Adams, 1990)
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M 8.8-9.2
~ 20 events
Simplified from Goldfinger et al. (2016 Marine Geology)
Great Cascadia earthquakes recorded in turbidite deposits
over the past 10,000 years
Many additional
events in the south?
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Cascadia: Today
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Continuous GPS
Stations in 1994:
Western Canada
Deformation Array
began operation
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Continuous GPS
Stations in 1994:
Western Canada
Deformation Array
began operation
Continuous GPS
Stations today:
U.S. Plate Boundary
Observatory (PBO)
and Western Canada
Deformation Array
Plus numerous
temporary GPS sites
and numerous seismic
stations
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Two points 100 km
apart get closer to
each other by 5 cm
every decade
Today
AD 1700
GPS data: McCaffrey et al. (2013),
after correction for long-term crustal rotation
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A few years Four decades Three centuries
Wang, Hu, He (Nature, 2012)
Deformation cycles of giant earthquakes in a viscoelastic Earth
Sumatra (and Japan) S. Chile (and Alaska) Cascadia
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Cascadia since the 1700 earthquake
England and France
began to fight in
eastern North
America (Queen
Anne’s War).
Captain Chirikov
(Russia) landed on
northwest coast of
North America
(Prince of Wales
Island).
Dr. Wang presents
ICLR webinar on
317th anniversary
of the earthquake.
1702 1741 20171778
Captain Cook sailed
along west coast of
North America and
stayed at Nootka
Sound.
Nootka Sound
Model by Yan Hu
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Cascadia:The day after tomorrow
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E-W
gro
un
d v
elo
city
(m
/s)
0.5
0.3
-0.1
-0.3
-0.5
0.1
0 1 2 3 minutes
Seattle
Portland
Eugene
Kelin Wang’s home
Medford
Cascadia M9 shaking scenario
From A. Frankel and W. Stephenson, USGS (first presented at 2015 SSA annual meeting)
Shaking
Landslides
Liquefaction
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Tsunami simulation by Eric Geist, USGS
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10 minutes 20 minutes 80 minutes
Seattle
Portland
Eugene
Medford
Victoria
Seattle
Portland
Eugene
Medford
Victoria
Seattle
Portland
Eugene
Medford
Victoria
Tsunami simulation by Randall LeVeque, Universityu of Washington
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1 km
1 mile
Inundationscenario
SM1
M1
L1
XL1
XXL1
(Bandon)
Witter et al., 2013 Geosphere
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Cascadia:Scientific challenges
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Is the seismogenic zone fully locked?
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With thermal constraints Geodetic inversion only
Used in Canadian and U.S.
seismic zoning
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Why do we assume “shallow and narrow”? –– Very warm megathrust
Gao and Wang
(2014)
Because of young slab and thick sediment cover,
megathrust temperature > 400C at 20 km depth, too warm
for seismic rupture if fault-zone material is quartz-rich.
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GPS data: McCaffrey et al. (2013)
Not interplate
Not interplate
Interplate
Why do we assume full locking? –– Eerily quiet megathrust
SeaJade OBS monitoring:
Three months in 2010 and nine months in 2012
detected almost no earthquakes on megathrust.
Obana et al., 2015 BSSA
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Partial
Landward velocity
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Proposed
seafloor geodesy(Wilcock et al. 2012)
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Interseismic stress relaxation
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1973 (Bott and Dean)
Today
1984 (Thatcher and Rundle)
The Earth’s mantle exhibits a viscoelastic behaviour
Wang, Hu, He (Nature, 2012)
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Cascadia since the 1700 earthquake
England and France
began to fight in
eastern North
America (Queen
Anne’s War).
Captain Chirikov
(Russia) landed on
northwest coast of
North America
(Prince of Wales
Island).
Dr. Wang presents
ICLR webinar on
317th anniversary
of the earthquake.
1702 1741 20171778
Captain Cook sailed
along west coast of
North America and
stayed at Nootka
Sound.
Nootka Sound
Model by Yan Hu
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ETS and the seismogenic zone
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Episodic Tremor
and Slip (ETS)
?
Seismogenic zone
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Wang and Trehu (2016 J. Geodyn.)
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Tsunamigeneic seafloor deformation
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Wang and Trehu (2016 J. Geodyn)
Currently considered in Cascadia tsunami source modeling
1 km
1 km
1 km
Kodaira et al. (2012 Nature Geoscience)
Before earthquake
After earthquake
50 m displacement
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Wang and Trehu (2016 J. Geodyn.)
British Columbia
Washington
Oregon
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Along-strike heterogeneity and earthquake recurrence behaviour
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Model by Wang et al. (2013 JGR)Microfossil data: A. Hawkes, S. Engelhart, B. Horton, etc.
Great Cascadia earthquake of AD 1700
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M 8.8-9.2
~ 20 events
Simplified from Goldfinger et al. (2016 Marine Geology)
Great Cascadia earthquakes recorded in turbidite deposits
over the past 10,000 years
Many additional
events in the south?
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• Cascadia likely has a Sumatra-type megathrust featuring spread-out ruptures (large strike length, moderate slip).
• No doubt, the Cascadia megathrust is presently locked to some degree.
• Narrow and shallow locking is assumed because of high temperature.
• Full locking is assumed because of paucity of interface seismicity.
• Seafloor geodesy and seismometry are needed to define the true locking state.
• Multidisciplinary research is needed to understand the relation between ETS and the seismogenic zone.
• Geophysical imaging and geological studies are needed to investigate whether Tohoku-like trench-breaching rupture occurs at Cascadia.
• Structural and paleoseismic research needs to examine possibly persistent, geologically controlled along-strike heterogeneity in seismogenic behaviour.
• Local-scale research is needed to study site conditions pertaining to shaking amplification, tsunami inundation, and secondary hazards.
Some points to emphasize
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• Cascadia likely has a Sumatra-type megathrust featuring spread-out ruptures (large strike length, moderate slip).
• No doubt, the Cascadia megathrust is presently locked to some degree.
• Narrow and shallow locking is assumed because of high temperature.
• Full locking is assumed because of paucity of interface seismicity.
• Seafloor geodesy and seismometry are needed to define the true locking state.
• Multidisciplinary research is needed to understand the relation between ETS and the seismogenic zone.
• Geophysical imaging and geological studies are needed to investigate whether Tohoku-like trench-breaching rupture occurs at Cascadia.
• Structural and paleoseismic research needs to examine possibly persistent, geologically controlled along-strike heterogeneity in seismogenic behaviour.
• Local-scale research is needed to study site conditions pertaining to shaking amplification, tsunami inundation, and secondary hazards.
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• Cascadia likely has a Sumatra-type megathrust featuring spread-out ruptures (large strike length, moderate slip).
• No doubt, the Cascadia megathrust is presently locked to some degree.
• Narrow and shallow locking is assumed because of high temperature.
• Full locking is assumed because of paucity of interface seismicity.
• Seafloor geodesy and seismometry are needed to define the true locking state.
• Multidisciplinary research is needed to understand the relation between ETS and the seismogenic zone.
• Geophysical imaging and geological studies are needed to investigate whether Tohoku-like trench-breaching rupture occurs at Cascadia.
• Structural and paleoseismic research needs to examine possibly persistent, geologically controlled along-strike heterogeneity in seismogenic behaviour.
• Local-scale research is needed to study site conditions pertaining to shaking amplification, tsunami inundation, and secondary hazards.
Questions welcomewww.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca
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GPS Observations
(1991-2004)
Station velocities
with respect to
stable North America
(Compiled by
McCaffrey et al., 2007)
Red –continuous stations
Blue –campaign stations
Velocity scale
10 mm/year
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Secular motion of
coastal region
(Model of Wells et al.,
1998, based on
Earth’s magnetic field
recorded in rocks and
other geological data).
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Wang and Trehu (2016 J. Geodyn.)
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Frontal thrusts off Vancouver Island identified from seismic survey profiles
D. Gao, 2016 MSc thesis