@article {iwasaki_continuous_2022, title = {Continuous Tremor Activity With Stable Polarization Direction Following the 2014 Large Slow Slip Event in the Hikurangi Subduction Margin Offshore New Zealand}, journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth}, volume = {127}, number = {2}, year = {2022}, note = {_eprint: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2021JB022161}, month = {11/2021}, pages = {e2021JB022161}, abstract = {Many types of slow earthquakes have been discovered at subduction zones around the world. However, the physical process of these slow earthquakes is not well understood. To monitor offshore slow earthquakes, a marine seismic and geodetic experiment was conducted at the Hikurangi subduction margin from May 2014 to June 2015. During this experiment, a large slow slip event (Mw 6.8) occurred directly beneath the ocean bottom seismometer (OBS) network. In this study, S-wave splitting and polarization analysis methods, which have been previously used on onshore data to investigate tremor and anisotropy, are applied to continuous OBS waveform data to identify tremors that are too small to detect by the envelope cross correlation method. Continuous tremor activity with stable polarization directions is detected at the end of the 2014 slow slip event and continued for about 2 weeks. The tremors are generated around a southwest bend in the slow slip contours and at the landward edge of a subducted seamount. Our findings corroborate a previous interpretation, based on burst-type repeating earthquakes and intermittent tremor, that localized slow slip and tremor around the seamount was triggered by fluid migration following the large plate boundary slow slip event and indicate tremor occurred continuously rather than as isolated and sporadic individual events.}, keywords = {New Zealand, polarization, S-wave splitting, Seamount, slow slip, tremor}, issn = {2169-9356}, doi = {10.1029/2021JB022161}, url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2021JB022161}, author = {Iwasaki, Yuriko and Mochizuki, Kimihiro and Ishise, Motoko and Todd, Erin K. and Schwartz, Susan Y. and Zal, Hubert and Savage, Martha K. and Henrys, Stuart and Sheehan, Anne F. and Ito, Yoshihiro and Wallace, Laura M. and Webb, Spahr C. and Yamada, Tomoaki and Shinohara, Masanao} } @article {117, title = {Temporal and spatial variations in seismic anisotropy and V P /V S ratios in a region of slow slip}, journal = {Earth and Planetary Science Letters}, volume = {532}, year = {2020}, pages = {115970}, type = {Journal Article}, abstract = {In September 2014, a five week long slow slip event (SSE) occurred near Gisborne at the northern Hikurangi subduction zone, New Zealand, and was recorded by offshore instruments deployed by the Hikurangi Ocean Bottom Investigation of Tremor and Slow Slip (HOBITSS) project. Up to 25 cm of slip occurred directly below the HOBITSS array. We calculate shear wave splitting (SWS) and V P / V S ratios for event-station pairs on HOBITSS ocean bottom seismometers and onshore GeoNet seismic stations to determine the relationship in time and space between slow slip and these seismic properties. Spatial averaging of SWS fast azimuths yields trench-perpendicular fast azimuths in some areas, suggesting that compressive stress from plate convergence closes microcracks and controls anisotropy in the upper-plate. Variations from the trench perpendicular directions are observed near a subducting seamount, with directions closely resembling fracture and fault patterns created by subducting seamounts previously observed in both laboratory and field experiments. Temporal variations in fast azimuths are observed at three stations, two of which are located above the seamount, suggesting measurable variations in stress orientations. During the SSE, median V P / V S measurements across all offshore stations increase from 1.817 to 1.894 and SWS delay times decrease from 0.178 s to 0.139 s (both changes are significant within 95\% confidence intervals). Temporal variations in V P / V S and delay time are consistent with fluid pressurization below a permeability barrier and movement of fluids during the rupture of a slow-slip patch.}, doi = {10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115970}, url = {https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1123727644}, author = {Zal, Hubert Jerzy and Jacobs, Katrina and Savage, Martha Kane and Yarce, Jefferson and Mroczek, Stefan and Graham, Kenny and Todd, Erin K. and Nakai, Jenny and Iwasaki, Yuriko and Sheehan, Anne and Mochizuki, Kimihiro and Wallace, Laura and Schwartz, Susan and Webb, Spahr and Henrys, Stuart} } @article {todd_earthquakes_2018, title = {Earthquakes and Tremor Linked to Seamount Subduction During Shallow Slow Slip at the Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand}, journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth}, volume = {123}, number = {8}, year = {2018}, note = {_eprint: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2018JB016136}, pages = {6769{\textendash}6783}, abstract = {Shallow slow slip events have been well documented offshore Gisborne at the northern Hikurangi subduction margin, New Zealand, and are associated with tectonic tremor downdip of the slow slip patch and increases in local microseismicity. Tremor and seismicity on the shallow subduction interface are often poorly resolved due to their distance from land-based seismic and geodetic networks. To address this shortcoming, the Hikurangi Ocean Bottom Investigation of Tremor and Slow Slip experiment deployed 24 absolute pressure gauges and 15 ocean bottom seismometers on the seafloor above the Gisborne slow slip patch to investigate the spatial and temporal extent of slow slip and associated tremor and earthquake activity. We present a detailed spatiotemporal analysis of the seismic signatures of various interplate slip processes associated with the September/October 2014 Gisborne slow slip event. Tectonic tremor begins toward the end and continues after the geodetically constrained slow slip event and is localized in the vicinity of two subducted seamounts within and updip of the slow slip patch. The subsequent, rather than synchronous occurrence of tremor suggests that tremor may be triggered by stress changes induced by slow slip. However, Coulomb failure stress change models based on the slow slip distribution fail to predict the location of tremor, suggesting that seamount subduction plays a dominant role in the stress state of the shallow megathrust. This and the observed interplay of seismic and aseismic interplate slip processes imply that stress changes from slow slip play a secondary role in the distribution of associated microseismicity.}, keywords = {earthquake, New Zealand, Seamount, slow slip, subduction, tremor}, issn = {2169-9356}, doi = {10.1029/2018JB016136}, url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2018JB016136}, author = {Todd, Erin K. and Schwartz, Susan Y. and Mochizuki, Kimihiro and Wallace, Laura M. and Sheehan, Anne F. and Webb, Spahr C. and Williams, Charles A. and Nakai, Jenny and Yarce, Jefferson and Fry, Bill and Henrys, Stuart and Ito, Yoshihiro} }