AFTERSHOCK STRESS RELEASE ALONG ACTIVE （余震沿着积极压力释放）.pdf

Bulletinofthe SeismologicalSocietyofAmerica,Vol.83,No. 1,pp. 144-159,February 1993 AFTERSHOCK STRESS RELEASE ALONG ACTIVE FAULT PLANES OF THE 1984 ROUND VALLEY, CALIFORNIA, EARTHQUAKE SEQUENCE APPLYING A TIME-DOMAIN STRESS DROP METHOD BY KENNETH D. SMITH AND KEITH F. PRIESTLEY ABSTRACT The 23 November 1984 M L 5.8 Round Valley earthquake is one in a series of moderate ( M L ~ 6) earthquakes to have occurred in the Bishop-Mammoth Lakes, California, area since 1978. This earthquake and its aftershock se- quence occurred within a dense seismic network, and hypocentral location quality is excellent. In a previous study, we determined that the Round Valley sequence involved faulting on a conjugate set of fault planes; one, a near- vertical plane striking N30°E, the mainshock fault plane showing principally left-lateral strike-slip motion, and another subperpendicular to the mainshock fault plane striking N40°W and dipping 55°NE, exhibiting dominantly right-lateral strike slip. This conjugate fault plane conforms to a postulated extension of the Hilton Creek fault and is the only significant activity on this structure in the 12-year Bishop-Mammoth Lakes earthquake sequence. Source dimensions and stress drops for 87 aftershocks ( M L 2.8 to 4.2) of the Round Valley sequence have been determined using an adaptation of the initial P-wave pulse width time-domain deconvolution technique of Frankel and Kanamori (1983). The aftershock sequence is confined to a limited volume of crust. We ha