Connecting Aseismic Slip and Microseismicity on the Central San Andreas Fault

High precision micro-earthquake relocations have revealed seismicity structures that may be an indicator of the fault's slip characteristics. Characteristically repeating micro-earthquakes and aligned streaks of micro-seismicity suggest that these structures are associated with areas of active aseismic fault slip. A general inverse correspondence between zones of abundant micro-seismicity and the coseismic slip area of large earthquakes also implies a relationship between creep and micro-earthquakes. We test this relationship using geodetic measurements of near-fault deformation. Modeling of such measurements allow for determination of locked and creeping sections of the fault. We focus on the central San Andreas fault near San Juan Bautista; a segment which experiences both aseismic and seismic fault slip and where there is a long history of geodetic measurements. Aseismic slip on the central San Andreas is time dependent and has varied in response to regional earthquakes and in the form of slow earthquakes. Dislocations in an elastic half space are used to evaluate a range of scenario fault slip models whose geometry is guided by the locations of micro-seismic streaks. The inversions for distributed sub-surface slip are constrained by range-change data from InSAR and GPS site velocities. The InSAR data (ERS1&2 track 299 frame 2861) spans from 1996-2000 and were processed using ROI_Pac with the SNAPHU unwrapper and combined in a patchwork stack to reduce atmospheric errors. Campaign and continuous GPS data were processed using GAMIT/GLOBK and form part of the regional BA¯VU¯ dataset. To minimize the effect on our analysis of transient slip induced by the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, we limit our dataset to GPS observations from 1994 to 2003. Preliminary results confirm that the presence of seismicity streaks and characteristically repeating micro-earthquakes are indicative of aseismic slip. However, the absence of such seismicity patterns does not necessarily rule out active fault creep.