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Articles | Volume XLII-4/W4
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-4-W4-517-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-4-W4-517-2017
27 Sep 2017
 | 27 Sep 2017

CO-SEISMIC GRAVITY GRADIENT CHANGES OF THE 2006–2007 GREAT EARTHQUAKES IN THE CENTRAL KURIL ISLANDS FROM GRACE OBSERVATIONS

A. Rahimi and M. Shahrisvand

Keywords: GRACE observation, gravitational gradient changes, Kuril island earthquakes, PSGRN/PSCMP

Abstract. GRACE satellites (the Gravity Recovery And climate Experiment) are very useful sensors to extract gravity anomalies after earthquakes. In this study, we reveal co-seismic signals of the two combined earthquakes, the 2006 Mw8.3 thrust and 2007 Mw8.1 normal fault earthquakes of the central Kuril Islands from GRACE observations. We compute monthly full gravitational gradient tensor in the local north-east-down frame for Kuril Islands earthquakes without spatial averaging and de-striping filters. Some of gravitational gradient components (e.g. ΔVxx, ΔVxz) enhance high frequency components of the earth gravity field and reveal more details in spatial and temporal domain. Therefore, co-seismic activity can be better illustrated. For the first time, we show that the positive-negative-positive co-seismic ΔVxx due to the Kuril Islands earthquakes ranges from − 0.13 to + 0.11 milli Eötvös, and ΔVxz shows a positive-negative-positive pattern ranges from − 0.16 to + 0.13 milli Eötvös, agree well with seismic model predictions.