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Particle image correlation data from Foamquake: a novel seismotectonic analog model mimicking the megathrust seismic cycle

Mastella, Giacomo | Corbi, Fabio | Funiciello, Francesca | Matthias, Rosenau

GFZ Data Services

(2021)

Descriptions

This dataset includes particle image correlation data from 26 experiments performed with Foamquake, a novel analog seismotectonic model reproducing the megathrust seismic cycle. The seismotectonic model has been monitored by the means of a high-resolution top-view monitoring camera. The dataset presented here represents the particle image velocimetry surface velocity field extracted during the experimental model through the cross-correlation between consecutive images. This dataset is supplementary to Mastella et al. (2021) where detailed descriptions of models and experimental results can be found.
Foamquake is a scaled seismotectonic model that reproduces the key features of a generic natural megathrust. The experimental setup is composed of a Plexiglass box where a flat-topped elastic foam rubber wedge with a dimension of 145x90x20 cm^3 (the overriding plate analog) overlaying a planar, 10° dipping rigid plate (the subducting plate analog). The model is free to move laterally for 5 cm within the Plexiglass box. Thus, it is not affected by friction acting at the two sides of the foam wedge. Instead, the rear (i.e., the thickest side) of the vertical wedge is confined by a rigid vertical backstop. The interface between the foam and the lower plate mimics the megathrust interface. Along the rigid subducting plate, a plastic conveyor belt moves downward at the constant velocity of 0.01 cm/s reproducing a steady trench-orthogonal subduction. Along the plate interface a 1 cm layer of granular material (i.e., rice) mimics a seismic asperity surrounded by sand reproducing the heterogeneous frictional configuration of the analog fault zone. Due to the physical properties of granular materials placed along the analog megathrust, Foamquake experiences stick-slippan> behavior. This behavior, can be described in the rate and state framework, results in the quasi-periodic spontaneous nucleation of frictional instabilities within the rice layer, named foamquakes. The rice is characterized by a velocity weakening frictional behavior while the sand is characterized by velocity neutral behavior. As a consequence, analog earthquakes nucleate within the granular seismic asperity, while the sand tends to inhibit the rupture propagation. Given the 3D nature of the setup, models with more than one asperity can be performed with Foamquake. This dataset includes data from 22 models with a single-asperity configuration. Those models differ from each other by a variation of the normal load applied above the asperity and of the along trench asperity length. This repository also includes data derived from 4 models characterized by the presence of two asperities divided by a barrier.

Keywords


Originally assigned keywords
subduction megathrust earthquakes
asperities
multi-scale laboratories
EPOS
Analog modelling results
deformation
geologic process
tectonic process
subduction
Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV)
analogue models of geological processes
MatPIV
Earthquake simulator
earthquake
seismic activity
geological process
thrust fault
subduction zones
plate margin setting
Wedge simulator
EARTH SCIENCE > SOLID EARTH > TECTONICS > EARTHQUAKES
EARTH SCIENCE > SOLID EARTH > TECTONICS > PLATE TECTONICS > PLATE BOUNDARIES
EARTH SCIENCE SERVICES > MODELS > GEOLOGIC/TECTONIC/PALEOCLIMATE MODELS
EARTH SCIENCE SERVICES > MODELS > PHYSICAL/LABORATORY MODELS
geological process > seismic activity > earthquake
lithosphere > earth's crust > fault

Corresponding MSL vocabulary keywords
subducting plate interface
subduction
particle image velocimetry (PIV)
PIV - MatPIV
fault simulator
thrust fault
tectonic plate boundary
wedge simulator
wedge simulator

MSL enriched keywords
tectonic plate boundary
convergent tectonic plate boundary
subduction
subducting plate interface
Software
digital image correlation (DIC)
particle image velocimetry (PIV)
PIV - MatPIV
Apparatus
analogue modelling
deformation experiments
fault simulator
tectonic deformation structure
tectonic fault
thrust fault
wedge simulator
geomorphic experiments
wedge simulator
Ancillary equipment
model surface monitoring (2D)
camera
unconsolidated sediment
clastic sediment
sand
analogue modelling material
elastic modelling material
natural elastic material
natural rubber
rubber foam
Apparatus
deformation testing
shear testing
Measured property
friction - controlled slip rate
friction coefficient
rate and state friction (RSF) parameters
Inferred deformation behavior
deformation behaviour
frictional deformation
Measured property
friction - controlled slip rate
friction coefficient
rate and state friction (RSF) parameters
trench
accretionary wedge

MSL enriched sub domains i

analogue modelling of geologic processes
rock and melt physics

Source

https://dataservices.gfz-potsdam.de/panmetaworks/showshort.php?id=6a82b14b-4e05-11ec-afce-82d7aee56e7a

Source publisher

GFZ Data Services


DOI

10.5880/fidgeo.2021.046


Creators

Mastella, Giacomo

Universitá degli studi "Roma TRE", Rome, Italy

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9052-4873

Corbi, Fabio

Istituto di Geologia Ambientale e Geoingegneria – CNR, Rome, Italy

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2662-3065

Funiciello, Francesca

Universitá degli studi "Roma TRE", Rome, Italy

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7900-8272

Matthias, Rosenau

GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1134-5381


Contributors

Mastella, Giacomo

ContactPerson

Universitá degli studi "Roma TRE", Rome, Italy

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9052-4873

Mastella, Giacomo

DataCollector

Universitá degli studi "Roma TRE", Rome, Italy

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9052-4873

Mastella, Giacomo

DataCurator

Universitá degli studi "Roma TRE", Rome, Italy

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9052-4873

Mastella, Giacomo

DataManager

Universitá degli studi "Roma TRE", Rome, Italy

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9052-4873

Mastella, Giacomo

Producer

Universitá degli studi "Roma TRE", Rome, Italy

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9052-4873

Mastella, Giacomo

Researcher

Universitá degli studi "Roma TRE", Rome, Italy

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9052-4873

Corbi, Fabio

DataCollector

Istituto di Geologia Ambientale e Geoingegneria – CNR, Rome, Italy

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2662-3065

Corbi, Fabio

DataCurator

Istituto di Geologia Ambientale e Geoingegneria – CNR, Rome, Italy

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2662-3065

Corbi, Fabio

DataManager

Istituto di Geologia Ambientale e Geoingegneria – CNR, Rome, Italy

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2662-3065

Corbi, Fabio

Producer

Istituto di Geologia Ambientale e Geoingegneria – CNR, Rome, Italy

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2662-3065

Corbi, Fabio

Researcher

Istituto di Geologia Ambientale e Geoingegneria – CNR, Rome, Italy

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2662-3065

Funiciello, Francesca

DataCurator

Universitá degli studi "Roma TRE", Rome, Italy

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7900-8272

Funiciello, Francesca

DataManager

Universitá degli studi "Roma TRE", Rome, Italy

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7900-8272

Funiciello, Francesca

ProjectManager

Universitá degli studi "Roma TRE", Rome, Italy

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7900-8272

Funiciello, Francesca

Supervisor

Universitá degli studi "Roma TRE", Rome, Italy

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7900-8272

Matthias, Rosenau

Researcher

GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1134-5381

Matthias, Rosenau

Researcher

GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1134-5381

Laboratory Of Experimental Tectonics (University Of Roma TRE, Italy)

HostingInstitution

Universitá degli studi "Roma TRE", Rome, Italy

labid:

3f93794e1a57b5c3906698aab2c630bc

Mastella Giacomo

ContactPerson

Universitá degli studi "Roma TRE", Rome, Italy


References

10.1029/2021jb022789rr

10.1029/2018gl081251

10.1029/2019gl086615

10.1029/2020gl088266

10.1029/2018jb016597

10852/10196

10.5880/fidgeo.2021.047


Citation

Mastella, G., Corbi, F., Funiciello, F., & Matthias, R. (2021). Particle image correlation data from Foamquake: a novel seismotectonic analog model mimicking the megathrust seismic cycle [Data set]. GFZ Data Services. https://doi.org/10.5880/FIDGEO.2021.046


Dates

Issued:

2021


Rights

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International