Scientific Reports (Jun 2023)

Near-surface termination of upward-propagating strike-slip ruptures on the Yangsan Fault, Korea

  • Youngbeom Cheon,
  • Chang-Min Kim,
  • Jin-Hyuck Choi,
  • Sangmin Ha,
  • Seongjun Lee,
  • Taehyung Kim,
  • Hee-Cheol Kang,
  • Moon Son

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-37055-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Abstract We present a new example of the termination of strike-slip paleoearthquake ruptures in near-surface regions on the Yangsan Fault, Korea, based on multi-scale structural observations. Paleoearthquake ruptures occur mostly along the boundary between the inherited fault core and damage zone (N10–20°E/> 75°SE). The ruptures propagated upward to the shallow subsurface along a σv > σHmin to σHmax > σHmin > σv at depth of a ~ 200 m; and the physical properties of unconsolidated sediment, which have low inter-granular cohesion, resulting in distributed deformation.