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Bulletin of Seismological Society of America 2016 No.8
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Megan Slinkard, Stephen Heck, David Schaff, Nedra Bonal, David Daily, Christopher Young, Paul Richards |
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Sandia National Laboratories, P.O.Box 5800 MS0404, Albuquerque |
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Using template waveforms from aftershocks of the Wenchuan earthquake (12 May 2008, Ms 7.9) listed in a global bulletin and continuous data from eight regional stations, we detected more than 6000 additional events in the mainshock source region from 1 May to 12 August 2008. These new detections obey Omori’s law, extend the magnitude of completeness downward by 1.1 magnitude units, and lead to a more than fivefold increase in number of known aftershocks compared with the global bulletins published by the International Data Centre and the International Seismological Centre. Moreover, we detected more M>2 events than were listed by the Sichuan Seismograph Network. Several clusters of these detections were then relocated using the double‐difference method, yielding locations that reduced travel‐time residuals by a factor of 32 compared with the initial bulletin locations. Our results suggest that using waveform correlation on a few regional stations can find aftershock events very effectively and locate them with precision.
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