NLL-SSST-coherence high-precision earthquake location catalog for the M 7.0, 2025 Alaska-Yukon Hubbard Glacier earthquake sequence
Description
Hypocenter catalog files and visualization of high-precision, NLL-SSST-coherence earthquake locations for the M 7.0, 2025 Alaska-Yukon Hubbard Glacier earthquake sequence and background seismicity (2020-01-01 to 2025-12-13).
NLL-SSST-coherence (Lomax and Savvaidis, 2022; Lomax and Henry, 2023; Lomax et al., 2024) is an enhanced, absolute-timing earthquake location procedure which 1) iteratively generates spatially varying travel-time corrections to improve multi-scale location precision and 2) uses waveform similarity to improve fine-scale location precision.
Relocations performed with phase arrival data available from https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes
Initial seismic velocity model is the scak model used by the Alaska Earthquake Center, from:
Silwal, V., & Tape, C. (2016). Seismic moment tensors and estimated uncertainties in southern Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 121(4), 2772–2797. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JB012588
Visualizations include surface fault traces from https://www.usgs.gov/programs/earthquake-hazards/faults
This repository contains:
Selected Visualization images
plotted epicenters are from expectation hypocenters (expect_lat, expect_lon in csv file)
only events with location error (68% confidence EllipsoidLen3) ≤ 10 km are plotted
Full catalog in CSV format:
CSV file data columns correspond to selected fields of the of NonLinLoc Hypocenter format output http://alomax.free.fr/nlloc/soft7.00/formats.html#_location_hypphs_
CSV format description:
FIELD : DESCRIPTION
date-time : maximum likelihood* hypocenter origin time
latitude : maximum likelihood* hypocenter latitude (deg)
longitude : maximum likelihood* hypocenter longitude (deg)
depth : maximum likelihood* hypocenter depth (km below reference level (e.g. sea-level))
RMS : root-mean-square of phase residuals at hypocenter (sec)
Nphs : number of readings used for location
Gap : maximum azimuth gap between stations used for location (deg)
Dist : distance of closest station to maximum likelihood* hypocenter (Non-GLOBAL: km, GLOBAL: deg)
errH : horizontal error (semi-major axis of 68% confidence error ellipse) (km)
errZ : depth error (68% confidence: sqrt(2.30 * covariance(zz))) (km)
Mamp : amplitude (i.e. ML) magnitude
Mdur : duration magnitude
expect_lat : expectation hypocenter latitude (deg)
expect_lon : expectation hypocenter longitude (deg)
expect_z : expectation hypocenter depth (km below reference level (e.g. sea-level))
EllipsoidAz1 : azimuth of semi-minor-axis of 68% confidence ellipsoid (deg)
EllipsoidDip1 : dip of semi-minor-axis of 68% confidence ellipsoid (deg)
EllipsoidLen1 : length of semi-minor-axis of 68% confidence ellipsoid (km)
EllipsoidAz2 : azimuth of semi-intermediate-axis of 68% confidence ellipsoid
EllipsoidDip2 : dip of semi-intermediate-axis of 68% confidence ellipsoid (deg)
EllipsoidLen2 : length of semi-intermediate-axis of 68% confidence ellipsoid (km)
EllipsoidLen3 : length of semi-major-axis of 68% confidence ellipsoid (km)
minHorUnc : semi-minor axis of 68% confidence ellipse (km)
maxHorUnc : semi-major axis of 68% confidence ellipse (km)
azMaxHorUnc : azimuth of major axis of 68% confidence ellipse (deg)
pdfVolume : integral over octree cells of volume * cell probability (if octree search used)
mech_strike : strike of double couple mechanism (deg)
mech_dip : dip of double couple mechanism (deg)
mech_rake : rake of double couple mechanism (deg)
mech_misfit : misfit of mechanism determination
mech_Nobs : number of first motion observations used in mechanism determination
publicId : event id string
* expectation hypocenter if LOCHYPOUT SAVE_NLLOC_EXPECTATION used