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IUGG XXIV General Assembly July 2-13, 2007 Perugia, Italy<br />

(S) - <strong>IASPEI</strong> - International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's<br />

Interior<br />

JSS011 Poster presentation 2177<br />

Shear-wave splitting analysis using aftershocks of the 28th May 2004<br />

Baladeh-Iran earthquake<br />

Mrs. Masoumeh Dilmaghani<br />

Azad University,Science And Research Department ministry of education of Iran <strong>IASPEI</strong><br />

Seyed Mojtaba Mirmajidi, Dr.Ahmad Sadidkhuy, Prof.Mohammad Reza Gheitanchi<br />

One of the best ways to study deformation in Earth's interior is detection and interpretation of seismic<br />

anisotropy, or the dependence of seismic velocities on wave propagation and polarization direction. In<br />

an anisotropic medium, shear wave split into two approximately orthogonal polarizations that travel at<br />

different velocities and write characteristic easily -identifiable signatures into three components seismic<br />

wave's trains. In this paper, we present thr result of shear-wave splitting in the crust of central Alborz<br />

using aftershocks of the 28th May 2004, Baladeh-Iran earthquakes. Clear shear-wave splitting was<br />

observed on the records of the selected aftershocks. The polarization of the faster shear wave is aligned<br />

in the direction of microcracks, and coincides with the direction of the maximum horizontal compressive<br />

tectonic stress in the region. These effects are interpreted in terms of effective anisotropy of the upper<br />

crust in the region. It seems that, this shear-wave splitting in the crust is almost caused by propagation<br />

through stress-aligned fluid-saturated microcracks. It was concluded that when shear wave is polarized<br />

parallel to the crack surface, the velocity is uniform, but the velocity curve varies clearly if shear wave is<br />

polarized perpendicular to the crack surface.<br />

Keywords: crustal anisotropy, shear wave splitting, fast wave direction

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