{"id":3182,"date":"2024-09-25T09:25:10","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T16:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~cbeghein\/?page_id=3182"},"modified":"2024-09-25T09:36:34","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T16:36:34","slug":"seismic-anisotropy-away-from-the-lander","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~cbeghein\/seismic-anisotropy-away-from-the-lander\/","title":{"rendered":"Seismic Anisotropy Away from the Lander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The largest marsquake (S1222a) ever recorded occurred on the 1222nd Martian day of the InSight mission. It had a magnitude of 4.7 \u00b1 0.2 and a high signal-to-noise ratio about 164,000 times larger than the second-largest event. This was the first quake to generate both Love and Rayleigh waves, making it a great candidate to constrain seismic anisotropy away from the lander.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3183\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3183\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1029\/2022GL101508\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3183\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~cbeghein\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/grl65194-fig-0003-m-300x285.jpg\" alt=\"Resulting Vs and \u03be models\" width=\"500\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~cbeghein\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/grl65194-fig-0003-m-300x285.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~cbeghein\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/grl65194-fig-0003-m-1024x973.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~cbeghein\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/grl65194-fig-0003-m-2000x1900.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3183\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">VS (a) and \u03be (a) models resulting from Method 1 applied to the measured dispersion curves. The vertical black dashed line in (b) represents an isotropic model for reference. The red horizontal bars are the uncertainties calculated by averaging the variance obtained by each of the three methods.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We measured the group velocity dispersion curves of the minor arc (i.e., that take the shortest path between the event and the station) Rayleigh (R1) and Love (L1) waves, and inverted the data using different modeling approaches.\u00a0From R1 and L1, we obtained the first constraints on <strong>seismic anisotropy on Mars away from the lander<\/strong>, with horizontally polarized shear waves faster than vertically polarized shear waves (V<sub>SH<\/sub>&gt;V<sub>SV<\/sub>) <strong>in the crust, between 10 km and 30 km depth<\/strong>. Our preferred explanations include an alternation of isotropic basalt layer deposit and sedimentation caused by volcanic eruption or the presence of isotropic layered intrusions due to an impact. Our manuscript was published in the AGU special section \u201cThe Large Marsquake of Sol 1222\u201d\u00a0 dedicated to S1222a.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Beghein, C.<\/strong>, Li., J., Weidner, E. et al. (2022), Crustal Anisotropy in the Martian Lowlands from Surface Waves, <em>Geophys. Res. Let., <\/em><strong>49 <\/strong>(24), e2022GL101508, doi:10.1029\/2022GL101508<\/p>\n<p>The best-fitting models can be downloaded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/scl\/fi\/tbn6cgxi8kgu9z1tylueq\/2022GRL_AcceptableModels.tar?rlkey=lugdoin0z5q1qvwmp3q0s1rkq&amp;st=crl53638&amp;dl=0\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The largest marsquake (S1222a) ever recorded occurred on the 1222nd Martian day of the InSight mission. It had a magnitude of 4.7 \u00b1 0.2 and a high signal-to-noise ratio about 164,000 times larger than the second-largest event. This was the first quake to generate both Love and Rayleigh waves, making it a great candidate to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~cbeghein\/seismic-anisotropy-away-from-the-lander\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Seismic Anisotropy Away from the Lander&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inspiro_hide_title":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3182","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"featured_media_urls":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~cbeghein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~cbeghein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~cbeghein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~cbeghein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~cbeghein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3182"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~cbeghein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3189,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~cbeghein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3182\/revisions\/3189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~cbeghein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}