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Seismic precursors to a 2017 Nuugaatsiaq, Greenland, earthquake–landslide–tsunami event

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  • Rhett Butler

    (University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa)

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High-frequency (5–20 Hz) seismic signals precursory to and embedded within the June 17, 2017 ML = 4 earthquake–landslide event are analyzed. This event in western Greenland generated a tsunami in Karrat fjord inundating Nuugaatsiaq village 32 km distant. Spectrogram and wavelet analyses of seismic data from the Greenland Ice Sheet Monitoring Network (GLISN) corroborate observations of seismic precursors at Nuugaatsiaq reported by Poli (Geophys Res Lett 44:8832–8836, 2017) and Caplan-Auerbach (in: AGU fall meeting abstracts, 2017) and reveal additional high-frequency arrivals being generated after the apparent initiation of fault rupture. New observations of seismic precursors 181 km from the Event at Upernavik, Greenland are correlated with those seen at Nuugaatsiaq. Wavelet analysis presents > 100 significant energy peaks accelerating up to and into the earthquake–landslide event. The precursor events show a distinct, power law distribution, characterized by b values of ~ 2.4. Results are compared and contrasted with small precursors observed in the studies of a natural chalk cliff landslide at Mesnil-Val, Haute Normandie, France. The earthquake–landslide appears to have been initiated by seismic precursors located at the fault scarp, leading to a small seismic foreshock and small landslide initiation, followed by a larger earthquake at the fault scarp, precipitating the primary landslide into the Karrat Fjord, which caused the subsequent tsunami.

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  • Rhett Butler, 2019. "Seismic precursors to a 2017 Nuugaatsiaq, Greenland, earthquake–landslide–tsunami event," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 96(2), pages 961-973, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:nathaz:v:96:y:2019:i:2:d:10.1007_s11069-019-03582-8
    DOI: 10.1007/s11069-019-03582-8
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    1. Rhett Butler & David Walsh & Kevin Richards, 2017. "Extreme tsunami inundation in Hawai‘i from Aleutian–Alaska subduction zone earthquakes," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 85(3), pages 1591-1619, February.
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