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AN: S21A-0200 [Abstracts]
TI: Integrated Modeling of 3D Velocity Structure Beneath the Tokyo Metropolitan Area
AU: * Tanaka, Y
EM: ystanaka@eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp
AF: Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0032
Japan
AU: Koketsu, K
EM: koketsu@eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp
AF: Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0032
Japan
AU: Miyake, H
EM: hiroe@eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp
AF: Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0032
Japan
AU: Furumura, T
EM: furumura@eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp
AF: Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0032
Japan
AU: Sato, H
EM: satow@eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp
AF: Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0032
Japan
AU: Hirata, N
EM: hirata@eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp
AF: Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0032
Japan
AU: Suzuki, H
EM: suzuki-haruhiko@oyonet.oyo.co.jp
AF: Oyo Corporation, 5-61-2 Toro-machi, Kita-ku, Saitama, 331-8688
Japan
AU: Masuda, T
EM: masuda-tetsu@oyonet.oyo.co.jp
AF: Oyo Corporation, 5-61-2 Toro-machi, Kita-ku, Saitama, 331-8688
Japan
AB:
We are carrying out integrated modeling of 3D velocity structure in the Tokyo metropolitan area under the Special Project for
Earthquake Disaster Mitigation in Urban Area (Daidaitoku Project) in order to upgrade strong ground motion prediction.
Several models have been proposed using refraction/reflection, borehole, microtremor, and gravity data by Koketsu and Higashi
(1992), Yamanaka and Yamada (2002), Afnimar et al. (2003) and so on. The refraction
survey lines were distributed mainly in the central part of the Kanto basin by the Research Group on Underground Structure in
the Tokyo Metropolitan Area and other institutions, but there were few stations in areas such as the southwestern part of
the basin and the Boso peninsula, so the accuracy of the model in these areas was not adequate.
In 2002 and 2003 the Daidaitoku project conducted large-scale
reflection surveys along the Boso, Tokyo Bay, Sagami and Kanto West lines. Many refraction data were also obtained during
these surveys, so that the areas are now covered with the survey lines. In order to clarify the structure in the areas and
construct a revised model, we estimated the velocity structure by the refraction/gravity joint inversion method (Afnimar et
al., 2002) with refraction data including
these new data and gravity data in the whole Kanto basin. We have constructed the structures of the three sediment layers
(Shimosa, Kazusa and Miura layers) and the basement by determining the depths of Kazusa/Miura and sediment/basement
interfaces and the basement velocity distribution. We obtained the result with the minimum residuals of travel times and
gravity data. Our model has thicker sediment layers in the Boso peninsula with the deepest point of over 4.5km than those in
the other structure models. It has slightly thinner layers of 1.5km - 2km around the Sagami Bay-Odawara area and those of
2.5km - 3km in the western part of Tokyo.
We then adopted this model as an initial model for the further adjustment of the velocity structure. We used records of 27
earthquakes in 2000 to 2004 with magnitudes equal to or greater than 6.5 observed at K-NET stations in the Kanto region. We
first picked S-wave arrivals and calculated the spectral ratios of horizontal and vertical motions (H/V spectra). The
structure model was adjusted in
such a way that the theoretical H/V spectra for the Rayleigh waves got closer to the observed H/V spectra. The depth of the
basement was fixed and the ratios of the layer thicknesses were preserved during the adjustments. The adjusted model
includes low-velocity sediments thicker than 1000m as well as the deep basement in the central part
of the Chiba prefecture.
DE: 7200 SEISMOLOGY
DE: 7223 Earthquake interaction, forecasting, and prediction (1217, 1242)
DE: 7230 Seismicity and tectonics (1207, 1217, 1240, 1242)
DE: 8100 TECTONOPHYSICS
DE: 8123 Dynamics: seismotectonics
SC: Seismology [S]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005