Non-double-couple mechanism of moderate earthquakes occurred in Lower Siang region of Arunachal Himalaya: Evidence of factors affecting non-DC

Moment Tensor solutions of 104 earthquakes which were observed at local distances in Lower Siang region of Arunachal Himalaya have been estimated using ISOLA code. The magnitude range of analyzed earthquakes lies between 1.8 (M-w) and 5.3 (M-w). Out of 104 earthquakes, only 32 events are having good data. The signal noise ratio of these 32 events is greater than 6 with magnitude greater than 2.5. All possible sources of non-DC such as, noise present in the data, depth of the source, low azimuthal coverage of the event and non-DC as a part of real earthquake source process are examined. The study reveals that non-DC is highly dependent on the source depth as comparatively shallow events shows high CLVD%. The CLVD is also highly affected by the noise present in the data. Another factor is the magnitude of the event. The high magnitude event shows quite high DC%. So the source mechanisms of high magnitude events are double couple (DC). (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.