By means of the hypocenter distribution and focal mechanism of Wuding Ms=6.5 earthquake sequence occurred in1995. the space orientation and activity characteristics of focal fault of Wuding earthquake have been studie...By means of the hypocenter distribution and focal mechanism of Wuding Ms=6.5 earthquake sequence occurred in1995. the space orientation and activity characteristics of focal fault of Wuding earthquake have been studied fromthe three-dimensional space-time process. The results indicate that the focal fault of Wuding earthquake is a subsurface, NWW-trending, upright and right-lateral strike slip fault which is consistent with the intensity distributionin foe meizoseisfnal region. Although the large-scale NS-trending Tanglang-Yimen active fault passes through theearthquake region. it is irrelevant to the Ms=6.5 Wuding main earthquake. Since the relationship between thestrong earthquake and the shallow geological active fault can not be determined, the crustal deep structure shouldbe studied. The method proposed in the paper can be used to distinguish the focal fault in the deep crust.展开更多
Several earthquakes with M S≥5.0 occurred in the Datong seismic region in 1989, 1991 and 1999. The precise focus location of the earthquake sequence was made by the records of the remote sensing seismic station netwo...Several earthquakes with M S≥5.0 occurred in the Datong seismic region in 1989, 1991 and 1999. The precise focus location of the earthquake sequence was made by the records of the remote sensing seismic station network in Datong. Using that data together with macro-intensity distribution and focal mechanism solutions, we analyze the difference among three subsequences. The results show that the focal fault of the 1999 M S5.6 earthquake was a NWW-trending left-lateral strike-slip fault. It is 16 km long and 12 km wide. It developed at the depth of 5 km and is nearly vertical in dip. The two previous earthquake subsequences, however, were generated by activity along NNE-trending right-lateral strike-slip fault. It can be found that the rupture direction of the 1999 earthquake has changed. It is generally found that a rupture zone has more than two directions and has different strength along these two directions. The complicate degree of focal circumstance is related to the type of earthquake sequences. There is the NE-trending Dawangcun fault and the NW-trending Tuanbu fault in the seismic region, but no proof indicates a connection between focal faults and these two tectonic faults. The feature that focal faults of three subsequences are strike-slip is different from that of the two tectonic faults. It is suggested that the 1999 earthquake subsequence was possibly generated by a new rupture.展开更多
The Red River Fault Zone is a gigantic slide-slip fault zone extending up to 1000km from Tibet to SouthChina Sea. It has been divided into the north, central and south segments according to the difference of thegeomet...The Red River Fault Zone is a gigantic slide-slip fault zone extending up to 1000km from Tibet to SouthChina Sea. It has been divided into the north, central and south segments according to the difference of thegeometry, kinetics, and seismicity on the land, but according to the contacted relationship between the old pre-Cenozoic block in Indochina Peninsula and the South China block, the Red River Fault Zone was divided into two parts extending from land to ocean, the north and south segments. Since the Tertiary, the Red River Fault Zone suffered first the sinistral movement and then the dextral movement. The activities of the north and the south segments were different. Based on the analysis of earthquakes and focal mechanism solutions,earthquakes with the focus depths of 0-33km are distributed over the whole region and more deep earthquakes are distributed on the northeastern sides of the Red River fault. Types of faulting activities are the thrust in the northwest, the normal in the north and the strike-slip in the south, with the odd type, viz. the transition type, in the other region. These show the Red River Fault Zone and its adjacent region suffered the extruding force in NNW direction and the normal stress in NEE direction and it makes the fault in the region extrude-thrust,horizontal strike-slip and extensional normal movement.展开更多
库车—沙雅地区位于塔里木克拉通北部,近年来该地区地震具有频次不断增多、震级不断增大、时间间隔逐渐缩短的趋势.本文利用中国地震台网中心2017年1月—2022年12月震相走时和宽频带数据,通过重新定位、CAP(Cut And Paste)方法获得了库...库车—沙雅地区位于塔里木克拉通北部,近年来该地区地震具有频次不断增多、震级不断增大、时间间隔逐渐缩短的趋势.本文利用中国地震台网中心2017年1月—2022年12月震相走时和宽频带数据,通过重新定位、CAP(Cut And Paste)方法获得了库车—沙雅地区1257个精定位及84个震源机制解结果,同时利用区域应力场反演方法获得研究区应力场结果.结合区域地质构造背景、人工地震剖面等方面综合研究库车—沙雅地区的孕震特征与发震机理,确定发震断裂及其活动特征,获得以下认知:(1)研究区地震的空间分布与“X”型走滑断裂分布相一致.(2)研究区的震源机制解,主要以走滑为主,结合人工地震剖面,确定了库车—沙雅中小地震的发震断层为研究区奥陶—寒武系中的NNE、NNW向共轭走滑断裂体系,通过应力场反演获得了库车—沙雅地区NNW向的应力场分布格局,且具有较好的一致性.(3)最大地震库车M_(S)5.6地震节面Ⅰ走向77°,倾角90°,滑动角7°;节面Ⅱ走向347°,倾角83°,滑动角-180°,矩震级M_(W)5.16,矩心深度为8.0 km,推测此次地震的发震断层为本文编号为F_(Ⅱ)18走滑断层.本文结合多学科资料对库车—沙雅地区中小地震发震构造进行详尽探讨,并分析了该地区区域应力场特征,为该地区发震断层活动性及地震危险趋势提供一定参考依据.展开更多
The great Tancheng earthquake of M81/2 occurred in 1668 was the largest seismic event ever recorded in history in eastern China. This study determines the fault geometry of this earthquake by inverting seismological ...The great Tancheng earthquake of M81/2 occurred in 1668 was the largest seismic event ever recorded in history in eastern China. This study determines the fault geometry of this earthquake by inverting seismological data of present-day moderate-small earthquakes in the focal area. We relocated those earthquakes with the double-difference method and found focal mechanism solutions using gird test method. The inversion results are as follows: the strike is 21.6°, the dip angle is 89.5°, the slip angle is 170°, the fault length is about 160 km, the lower-boundary depth is about 32 km and the buried depth of upper boundary is about 4 km. This shows that the seismic fault is a NNE-trending upright right-lateral strike-slip fault and has cut through the crust. Moreover, the surface seismic fault, intensity distribution of the earthquake, earthquake-depth distribution and seismic-wave velocity profile in the focal area all verified our study result.展开更多
Abstract The 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, a major intraplate earthquake with Mw 7.9, occurred on the slowly deforming Longmenshan fault. To better understand the causes of this devastating earthquake, we need knowledge o...Abstract The 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, a major intraplate earthquake with Mw 7.9, occurred on the slowly deforming Longmenshan fault. To better understand the causes of this devastating earthquake, we need knowledge of the regional stress field and the underlying geodynamic processes. Here, we determine focal mechanism solutions (FMSs) of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake sequence (WES) using both P-wave first-motion polarity data and SH/P amplitude ratio (AR) data. As P-wave polarities are more reliable information, they are given priority over SH/ PAR, the latter of which are used only when the former has loose constraint on the FMSs. We collect data from three categories: (1) permanent stations deployed by the China Earthquake Administration (CEA); (2) the Western Sichuan Passive Seismic Array (WSPSA) deployed by Institute of Geology, CEA; (3) global stations from Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology. Finally, 129 events with magnitude over Ms 4.0 in the 2008 WES are identified to have well-constrained FMSs. Among them, 83 are well constrained by P-wave polarities only as shown by Cai et al. (Earthq Sci 24(1):115-125,2011), and the rest of which are newly constrained by incorporating SH/P AR. Based on the spatial distribution and FMSs of the WES, we draw following conclusions: (1) the principle compressional directions of most FMSs of the WES are subhorizontal, generally in agreement with the conclusion given by Cai et al. (2011) but with a few modifications that the compressional directions are WNW-ESE around Wenchuan and ENE-WSW around Qingchuan, respectively. The subhorizontal compressional direction along the Longmenshan fault from SW to NE seems to have a leftlateral rotation, which agrees well with regional stress field inverted by former researchers (e.g., Xu et al., Acta Seismol Sin 30(5), 1987; Acta Geophys Sin 32(6), 1989; Cui et al., Seismol Geol 27(2):234-242, 2005); (2) the FMSs of the events not only reflected the regional stress state of the Longmenshan region, but also were obviously controlled by the faults to some extent, which was pointed out by Cai et al. (2011) and Yi et al. (Chin J Geophys 55(4):1213-1227, 2012); (3) while the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake and some of its strong aftershocks released most of the elastic energy accumulated on the Longmen- shan fault, some other aftershocks seem to occur just for releasing the elastic energy promptly created by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake and some of its strong aftershocks. (4) Our results further suggest that the Longmenshan fault from Wenchuan to Beichuan was nearly fully destroyed by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake and accordingly propose that there is less probability for great earthquakes in the middle part of the Longmenshan fault in the near future, although there might be a barrier to the southwest of Wenchuan and it is needed to pay some attention on it in the near future.展开更多
The seismicity of Longrnenshan fault zone and its vicinities before the 12 May 2008 Wenchuan Ms8.0 earthquake is studied. Based on the digital seismic waveform data observed from regional seismic networks and mobile s...The seismicity of Longrnenshan fault zone and its vicinities before the 12 May 2008 Wenchuan Ms8.0 earthquake is studied. Based on the digital seismic waveform data observed from regional seismic networks and mobile stations, the focal mechanism solutions are determined. Our analysis results show that the seismicities of Longmenshan fault zone before the 12 May 2008 Wenchuan earthquake were in stable state. No obvious phenomena of seismic activity intensifying appeared. According to focal mechanism solutions of some small earthquakes before the 12 May 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, the direction of principal compressive stress P-axis is WNW-ESE. The two hypocenter fault planes are NE-striking and NW-striking. The plane of NE direction is among N50°-70°E, the dip angles of fault planes are 60°-70° and it is very steep. The faultings of most earthquakes are dominantly characterized by dip-slip reverse and small part of faultings present strike-slip. The azimuths of principal compressive stress, the strikes of source fault planes and the dislocation types calculated from some small earthquakes before the 12 May 2008 Wenchuan earthquake are in accordance with that of the main shock. The average stress field of micro-rupture along the Longmenshan fault zone before the great earthquake is also consistent with that calculated from main shock. Zipingpu dam is located in the east side 20 km from the initial rupture area of the 12 May 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. The activity increment of small earthquakes in the Zipingpu dam is in the period of water discharging. The source parameter results of the small earthquakes which occurred near the initial rupture area of the 12 May 2008 Wenchuan earthquake indicate that the focal depths are 5 to 14 km and the source parameters are identical with that of earthquake.展开更多
This paper analyzes various earthquake fault types, mechanism solutions, stress field as well as other geophysical data to study the crust movement in the Tibetan plateau and its tectonic implications. The results sho...This paper analyzes various earthquake fault types, mechanism solutions, stress field as well as other geophysical data to study the crust movement in the Tibetan plateau and its tectonic implications. The results show that a lot of normal faulting type earthquakes concentrate in the central Tibetan plateau. Many of them are nearly perfect normal fault events. The strikes of the fault planes of the normal faulting earthquakes are almost in the N-S direction based on the analyses of the equal area projection diagrams of fault plane solutions. It implies that the dislocation slip vectors of the normal faulting type events have quite great components in the E-W direction. The extension is probably an eastward extensional motion, mainly a tectonic active regime in the altitudes of the plateau. The tensional stress in the E-W or WNW-ESE direction predominates the earthquake occurrence in the normal event region of the central plateau. A number of thrust fault and strike-slip fault type earthquakes with strong compressive stress nearly in the NNE-SSW direction occurred on the edges of the plateau. The eastward extensional motion in the Tibetan plateau is attributable to the eastward movement of materials in the upper mantle based on_seismo-tomographic results. The eastward extensional motion in the Tibetan plateau may be related to the eastward extrusion of hotter mantle materials beneath the east boundary of the plateau. The northward motion of the Tibetan plateau shortened in the N-S direction probably encounters strong obstructions at the western and northern margins. Extensional motions from the relaxation of the topography and/or gravitational collapse in the altitudes of the plateau occur hardly in the N-S direction. The obstruction for the plateau to move eastward is rather weak.展开更多
On the basis of field observations, the complex time-space spreading pattern and focal mechanism of the 1989Batang earthquake swarm are studied in this paper. The fault motions of the epicenter area are analysed bythe...On the basis of field observations, the complex time-space spreading pattern and focal mechanism of the 1989Batang earthquake swarm are studied in this paper. The fault motions of the epicenter area are analysed bythe leveling survey before and after strong events. From the given simplified focal mechanical model of theswarm,the process of fracture indicates that swarm strong ruptures are associated with the spreading and thevirgation of the barrier of irregularen en echelon source fault system.展开更多
文摘By means of the hypocenter distribution and focal mechanism of Wuding Ms=6.5 earthquake sequence occurred in1995. the space orientation and activity characteristics of focal fault of Wuding earthquake have been studied fromthe three-dimensional space-time process. The results indicate that the focal fault of Wuding earthquake is a subsurface, NWW-trending, upright and right-lateral strike slip fault which is consistent with the intensity distributionin foe meizoseisfnal region. Although the large-scale NS-trending Tanglang-Yimen active fault passes through theearthquake region. it is irrelevant to the Ms=6.5 Wuding main earthquake. Since the relationship between thestrong earthquake and the shallow geological active fault can not be determined, the crustal deep structure shouldbe studied. The method proposed in the paper can be used to distinguish the focal fault in the deep crust.
文摘Several earthquakes with M S≥5.0 occurred in the Datong seismic region in 1989, 1991 and 1999. The precise focus location of the earthquake sequence was made by the records of the remote sensing seismic station network in Datong. Using that data together with macro-intensity distribution and focal mechanism solutions, we analyze the difference among three subsequences. The results show that the focal fault of the 1999 M S5.6 earthquake was a NWW-trending left-lateral strike-slip fault. It is 16 km long and 12 km wide. It developed at the depth of 5 km and is nearly vertical in dip. The two previous earthquake subsequences, however, were generated by activity along NNE-trending right-lateral strike-slip fault. It can be found that the rupture direction of the 1999 earthquake has changed. It is generally found that a rupture zone has more than two directions and has different strength along these two directions. The complicate degree of focal circumstance is related to the type of earthquake sequences. There is the NE-trending Dawangcun fault and the NW-trending Tuanbu fault in the seismic region, but no proof indicates a connection between focal faults and these two tectonic faults. The feature that focal faults of three subsequences are strike-slip is different from that of the two tectonic faults. It is suggested that the 1999 earthquake subsequence was possibly generated by a new rupture.
基金supported by the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Project No.KZCX2-209-01)National Science Foundation(Project No.40276015)Guangdong Province Science Foundation(Project No.021561).
文摘The Red River Fault Zone is a gigantic slide-slip fault zone extending up to 1000km from Tibet to SouthChina Sea. It has been divided into the north, central and south segments according to the difference of thegeometry, kinetics, and seismicity on the land, but according to the contacted relationship between the old pre-Cenozoic block in Indochina Peninsula and the South China block, the Red River Fault Zone was divided into two parts extending from land to ocean, the north and south segments. Since the Tertiary, the Red River Fault Zone suffered first the sinistral movement and then the dextral movement. The activities of the north and the south segments were different. Based on the analysis of earthquakes and focal mechanism solutions,earthquakes with the focus depths of 0-33km are distributed over the whole region and more deep earthquakes are distributed on the northeastern sides of the Red River fault. Types of faulting activities are the thrust in the northwest, the normal in the north and the strike-slip in the south, with the odd type, viz. the transition type, in the other region. These show the Red River Fault Zone and its adjacent region suffered the extruding force in NNW direction and the normal stress in NEE direction and it makes the fault in the region extrude-thrust,horizontal strike-slip and extensional normal movement.
文摘库车—沙雅地区位于塔里木克拉通北部,近年来该地区地震具有频次不断增多、震级不断增大、时间间隔逐渐缩短的趋势.本文利用中国地震台网中心2017年1月—2022年12月震相走时和宽频带数据,通过重新定位、CAP(Cut And Paste)方法获得了库车—沙雅地区1257个精定位及84个震源机制解结果,同时利用区域应力场反演方法获得研究区应力场结果.结合区域地质构造背景、人工地震剖面等方面综合研究库车—沙雅地区的孕震特征与发震机理,确定发震断裂及其活动特征,获得以下认知:(1)研究区地震的空间分布与“X”型走滑断裂分布相一致.(2)研究区的震源机制解,主要以走滑为主,结合人工地震剖面,确定了库车—沙雅中小地震的发震断层为研究区奥陶—寒武系中的NNE、NNW向共轭走滑断裂体系,通过应力场反演获得了库车—沙雅地区NNW向的应力场分布格局,且具有较好的一致性.(3)最大地震库车M_(S)5.6地震节面Ⅰ走向77°,倾角90°,滑动角7°;节面Ⅱ走向347°,倾角83°,滑动角-180°,矩震级M_(W)5.16,矩心深度为8.0 km,推测此次地震的发震断层为本文编号为F_(Ⅱ)18走滑断层.本文结合多学科资料对库车—沙雅地区中小地震发震构造进行详尽探讨,并分析了该地区区域应力场特征,为该地区发震断层活动性及地震危险趋势提供一定参考依据.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.90814002)the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province(No.Y2005E02)
文摘The great Tancheng earthquake of M81/2 occurred in 1668 was the largest seismic event ever recorded in history in eastern China. This study determines the fault geometry of this earthquake by inverting seismological data of present-day moderate-small earthquakes in the focal area. We relocated those earthquakes with the double-difference method and found focal mechanism solutions using gird test method. The inversion results are as follows: the strike is 21.6°, the dip angle is 89.5°, the slip angle is 170°, the fault length is about 160 km, the lower-boundary depth is about 32 km and the buried depth of upper boundary is about 4 km. This shows that the seismic fault is a NNE-trending upright right-lateral strike-slip fault and has cut through the crust. Moreover, the surface seismic fault, intensity distribution of the earthquake, earthquake-depth distribution and seismic-wave velocity profile in the focal area all verified our study result.
基金supported by the Wenchuan Fault Scientific Drilling Program(WFSD)
文摘Abstract The 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, a major intraplate earthquake with Mw 7.9, occurred on the slowly deforming Longmenshan fault. To better understand the causes of this devastating earthquake, we need knowledge of the regional stress field and the underlying geodynamic processes. Here, we determine focal mechanism solutions (FMSs) of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake sequence (WES) using both P-wave first-motion polarity data and SH/P amplitude ratio (AR) data. As P-wave polarities are more reliable information, they are given priority over SH/ PAR, the latter of which are used only when the former has loose constraint on the FMSs. We collect data from three categories: (1) permanent stations deployed by the China Earthquake Administration (CEA); (2) the Western Sichuan Passive Seismic Array (WSPSA) deployed by Institute of Geology, CEA; (3) global stations from Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology. Finally, 129 events with magnitude over Ms 4.0 in the 2008 WES are identified to have well-constrained FMSs. Among them, 83 are well constrained by P-wave polarities only as shown by Cai et al. (Earthq Sci 24(1):115-125,2011), and the rest of which are newly constrained by incorporating SH/P AR. Based on the spatial distribution and FMSs of the WES, we draw following conclusions: (1) the principle compressional directions of most FMSs of the WES are subhorizontal, generally in agreement with the conclusion given by Cai et al. (2011) but with a few modifications that the compressional directions are WNW-ESE around Wenchuan and ENE-WSW around Qingchuan, respectively. The subhorizontal compressional direction along the Longmenshan fault from SW to NE seems to have a leftlateral rotation, which agrees well with regional stress field inverted by former researchers (e.g., Xu et al., Acta Seismol Sin 30(5), 1987; Acta Geophys Sin 32(6), 1989; Cui et al., Seismol Geol 27(2):234-242, 2005); (2) the FMSs of the events not only reflected the regional stress state of the Longmenshan region, but also were obviously controlled by the faults to some extent, which was pointed out by Cai et al. (2011) and Yi et al. (Chin J Geophys 55(4):1213-1227, 2012); (3) while the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake and some of its strong aftershocks released most of the elastic energy accumulated on the Longmen- shan fault, some other aftershocks seem to occur just for releasing the elastic energy promptly created by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake and some of its strong aftershocks. (4) Our results further suggest that the Longmenshan fault from Wenchuan to Beichuan was nearly fully destroyed by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake and accordingly propose that there is less probability for great earthquakes in the middle part of the Longmenshan fault in the near future, although there might be a barrier to the southwest of Wenchuan and it is needed to pay some attention on it in the near future.
基金supported by National Key Basic Research 973bNational Scientific technology support plan (2006BAC01B02-01-01).
文摘The seismicity of Longrnenshan fault zone and its vicinities before the 12 May 2008 Wenchuan Ms8.0 earthquake is studied. Based on the digital seismic waveform data observed from regional seismic networks and mobile stations, the focal mechanism solutions are determined. Our analysis results show that the seismicities of Longmenshan fault zone before the 12 May 2008 Wenchuan earthquake were in stable state. No obvious phenomena of seismic activity intensifying appeared. According to focal mechanism solutions of some small earthquakes before the 12 May 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, the direction of principal compressive stress P-axis is WNW-ESE. The two hypocenter fault planes are NE-striking and NW-striking. The plane of NE direction is among N50°-70°E, the dip angles of fault planes are 60°-70° and it is very steep. The faultings of most earthquakes are dominantly characterized by dip-slip reverse and small part of faultings present strike-slip. The azimuths of principal compressive stress, the strikes of source fault planes and the dislocation types calculated from some small earthquakes before the 12 May 2008 Wenchuan earthquake are in accordance with that of the main shock. The average stress field of micro-rupture along the Longmenshan fault zone before the great earthquake is also consistent with that calculated from main shock. Zipingpu dam is located in the east side 20 km from the initial rupture area of the 12 May 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. The activity increment of small earthquakes in the Zipingpu dam is in the period of water discharging. The source parameter results of the small earthquakes which occurred near the initial rupture area of the 12 May 2008 Wenchuan earthquake indicate that the focal depths are 5 to 14 km and the source parameters are identical with that of earthquake.
基金supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 40674026)Commonweal Special Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 200811037)
文摘This paper analyzes various earthquake fault types, mechanism solutions, stress field as well as other geophysical data to study the crust movement in the Tibetan plateau and its tectonic implications. The results show that a lot of normal faulting type earthquakes concentrate in the central Tibetan plateau. Many of them are nearly perfect normal fault events. The strikes of the fault planes of the normal faulting earthquakes are almost in the N-S direction based on the analyses of the equal area projection diagrams of fault plane solutions. It implies that the dislocation slip vectors of the normal faulting type events have quite great components in the E-W direction. The extension is probably an eastward extensional motion, mainly a tectonic active regime in the altitudes of the plateau. The tensional stress in the E-W or WNW-ESE direction predominates the earthquake occurrence in the normal event region of the central plateau. A number of thrust fault and strike-slip fault type earthquakes with strong compressive stress nearly in the NNE-SSW direction occurred on the edges of the plateau. The eastward extensional motion in the Tibetan plateau is attributable to the eastward movement of materials in the upper mantle based on_seismo-tomographic results. The eastward extensional motion in the Tibetan plateau may be related to the eastward extrusion of hotter mantle materials beneath the east boundary of the plateau. The northward motion of the Tibetan plateau shortened in the N-S direction probably encounters strong obstructions at the western and northern margins. Extensional motions from the relaxation of the topography and/or gravitational collapse in the altitudes of the plateau occur hardly in the N-S direction. The obstruction for the plateau to move eastward is rather weak.
文摘On the basis of field observations, the complex time-space spreading pattern and focal mechanism of the 1989Batang earthquake swarm are studied in this paper. The fault motions of the epicenter area are analysed bythe leveling survey before and after strong events. From the given simplified focal mechanical model of theswarm,the process of fracture indicates that swarm strong ruptures are associated with the spreading and thevirgation of the barrier of irregularen en echelon source fault system.