简介:Inthispaper,researchofaftershockmechanismsisreviewed,includingheterogeneityofmediumandstress,mechanicalloading,fluidintrusionandstresscorrosion,andratestatedependence.Previousstudieshaveindicatedthattheheterogeneityofmediaandstressisthebasicpremiseofaftershocksgenerated.Fromthepointviewofmechanics,transientcreepandafterslipcanexplainthedecayofaftershocksinashorttimeafteramainshockandtherelaxationofstresstendstointerpretthecharacteristicsoflong-termaftershocks.Fluidintrusionandstresscorrosioncontroltheevolutionprocessoftheaftershocksundercertainconditions.Theinteractionbetweenthefaultsperturbedbythemainshockalwaysexistsduringtheaftershockactivities.Allkindsofmodelsandthetheorieswanttocomplywiththetwobasicpower-lawrelationships---theG-RlawandOmorilawtosomeextent.
简介:Seismogenic mechanism of the Lancang and Gengma earthquakes(俞维贤)(周瑞琦)(候学英)(周光全)SeismogenicmechanismoftheLancangandGengmaearth...
简介:1,209earthquakesoccurredinXianyou,FujianfromAugust4,2010toOctober4,2013.ThelargestearthquakewasML5.0onSeptember4,2013.InordertostudytheXianyouearthquakesequenceandunderstandthecausativestructureandstressfieldofXianyou,thefocalmechanismsolutionsofsixearthquakes(ML>3.5)intheXianyouearthquakesequencearecalculatedusingthebroadbanddigitaldataoftheFujianSeismicNetworkwiththeseismicmomenttensorinversemethod.Theresultsshowthatthefocalfaultsofthesixearthquakesaresimilar,whichareallstrike-slipfaultsstrikingtothenorthwestwithhighdipangles.ThedirectionoftheprincipalcompressivestressaxesisnearSN,whichisdifferentfromthestressfieldofFujianregion.TheXianyouearthquakesequencemayhavebeeninducedbythestressadjustmentaftertheimpoundmentofJinzhongreservoir.
简介:Inthispaper,therelationshipsoftheplungesandazimuthsofTandPaxesversusthestrikes,dips,andrakesoftwoseismicnodalplaneswerederivedtoprovidereferenceforearthquakeresearchers.TheindependenceoftheplungesandazimuthsofT,B,andPaxesinfocalmechanismsolutionwasdiscussed,anditwasconcludedthatthreeparameters,i.e.,theazimuthsofT,BandPaxes,arecompletelyindependent.ThefocalmechanismsolutionrepresentationbasedonEulerrotationwasintroduced,usingthreeEuleranglesinplaceoftheplungesandazimuthsofT,B,andPaxes,andthreefocalmechanismsolutionrepresentationswerebrieflycomparedandanalyzedinrespectofaccuracyonthebasisoftheassumptionofrounding;itwasconcludedthattheEuleranglerepresentationhasbetteraccuracy,comparedwiththeazimuthrepresentationandthetraditionalrepresentationwithT,B,andPaxes.
简介:IntroductionManyearthquakeshaveproventhatthereexistedshalowgeotemperatureanomaliesaroundtheearthquakeregionsbeforetheeventsoc...
简介:Anexperimentofuniaxialcompressionwascarriedoutonsamplesof8representativerocktypes.Thetemporalvariationsoftheremanentmagnetization,strainandacousticemissionofsampleswererecordedandinvestigated,especiallywhenthesampleswereunderconstantloadandwhentheyhadjustbeenunloaded.Itwasfoundthatmostsamplesstillshowedchangesoftheirremanentmagnetizationunderconstantloadandthetendencyofthesechangesremainedthesameasthatbeforetheloadhadbeenkeptconstant.Inthemeantime,similarchangesofstrainswereobservedaswell.However,inashorttimeperiodimmediatelyafterthesamplehadbeencompletelyunloaded,thevariationsofremanentmagnetizationandstrainswerestillobserved.Theabovephenomenaseemtobethereflectionofrheologicalpropertiesofrocks.Itisinterestingtonotethatsomesimilarphenomenawerealsofoundinfieldobservations,suchasaseismicgeomagneticchangesandsecularvariationinlocalgeomagneticfieldbeforeandaftere
简介:Inthispaper,thefocusdepthdistributionofearthquakeswitheachmagnitudehasbeenanalyzed.Statisticdatashowthatthelowermagnitudeis,thewiderfocusdepthdistributes.Withlargermagnitude,thefocustendstobeconcentratedinupperormiddlecrustallayers.Weanalyzedthecauseoffocusdepthdistributionandexplainedtheprecursormechanismofsmallandmoderateearthquakeswithoccurringconditionandcharacteristicsofstrongearthquakes.Theresultsofthispapermaybeappliedtodeterminerisksitesofstrongearthquakes.
简介:AsymmetryoftheWeiheBasinisdiscussedinthepaper,andalsothemastercontrolfault,secondarycontrolfaultofasymmetricbasinisproposedinthepaper.TheasymmetryoftheWeiheBasinisexpressedasfollows:(1)itsshapeofthecrosssectionsisasymmetrical;(2)thetectonicactivityofthesouthernmarginfaultandthenorthernmarginoneisapparentlydifferent;(3)itsdeeptectonicsisasymmetrical.Finally,weusetheWeiheBasinasanexampletoestablisha"cantilever-beam"modelforcalculations.Theresultsshowthat:(1)flexureleadstostressaccumulationandformingextensionalfractures;(2)fracturesslopesteeplytowardsthefreeend;(3)whenthelengthofbeambecomeslonger,itispossiblethatnewextensionalfractureswilloccurinthefixedend.
简介:Recenthigh-resolutiondeepseismicreflectionprofileacrosstheKunlunfaultinnortheasternTibetshowsclearlythattheMohoiscutoffbyacomplexthrustfaultsystem.Mohooffsetisageneralphenomenon,butlittleisknownaboutthedynamicmechanism.Inthisstudy,contactmodelswithMaxwellmaterialsareusedtosimulatethemechanicalprocessofMohooffsetinducedbytheaseismicslipofdeeplyburiedfaults.Basedontheseismicreflectiondata,weprojectasinglefaultmodelandacomplexfaultsystemmodelwithtwofaultsintersecting.ThedeformationsoftheMoho,theaseismicslips,andcontactstressesonfaultsindifferentmodelsarediscussedindetail.ResultsshowthattheMohooffsetmightbeproducedbyaseismicslipofdeeplyburiedfaults,andthemagnitudeisinfluencedbythefrictioncoefficientoffaultsandtheviscosityofthelowercrust.ThemaximumslipoccursneartheMohoonthesinglefaultoratthecrossingpointoftwointersectingfaultssystem.StressconcentratesmainlyontheMoho,thedeependoffaults,orthecrossingpoint.ThisstudywillthrowlightonunderstandingthemechanismofMohooffsetandaseismicslipofdeeplyburiedfaults.Theresultsofcomplexfaultsystemwithtwofaultsintersectingarealsousefultounderstandtheshallowintersectingfaultsthatmaycauseearthquakes.
简介:Comprehensivestatisticalanalysiswasperformedonthebasicfeaturesoffocalmechanismsof619ML≥2.0earthquakeswhichoccurredinthecapitalcircleareafromJanuary2002toJune2010.Bydividingthecapitalareaintothreestudyingregionsbasedonregionaltectoniccharacteristics,clusteranalysiswasconductedonthefocalmechanismsofallsubregionsusingthelongestdistancemethodinthestatisticalclusteranalysistostudythecharacteristicsoftectonicstresstensors.TheresultshowsthatdominantP-axisazimuthdistributionisNNE-NEEandthatofT-axisisNNW-NWW,mostofthefocalareasarecontrolledbyahorizontalstressfieldandruptureismainlyofhorizontalstrike-slip.ThemaximumprincipalcompressionstressorientationisNE75°inthewest,NE62°inthemiddle,andnearEWintheeastofthecapitalarea.Theregionaltectonicstressfieldischaracterizedbyhorizontalcompression.
简介:Inthepaper,sourcemechanismsof33small-moderateearthquakesoccurredinYunnanaredeterminedbymodelingofregionalwaveformsfromYunnandigitalseismicnetwork.TheresultshowsthatmostearthquakesoccurredwithinorneartheChuandianrhombicblockhavestrike-slipmechanism.TheorientationsofmaximumcompressivestressesobtainedfromsourcemechanismarechangedfromNNW-SSNtoNSintheareasfromnorthtosouthoftheblock,andtensilestressesaremainlyinENE-WSWorNE-SE.IntheeasternTibetanPlateau,theorientationsofmaximumcompressivestressradiatetowardoutsidefromtheplateau,andthetensilestressorientationsmostlyparalleltoarcstructures.Near28°Ntheorientationsofbothmaximumcompressivestressandtensilestresschangedgreatly,andtheboundaryseemstocorrespondtothesouthwesternextendedlineofLongmenshanfault.OutsideoftheChuandianrhombicblock,theorientationsofPandTaxesaresomedifferentfromthosewithintheblock.Thecomparisonshowsthatthesourcemechanismofsmall-moderateeventspresentedinthepaperisconsistencewiththatofmoderate-strongearthquakesdeterminedbyHarvardUniversity,whichmeansthesourcemechanismofsmall-moderateeventscanbeusedtostudythetectonicstressfieldinthisregion.
简介:IntroductionThrough20-oddyears’observationandstudyafterthe1976Tangshangreatearthquake,theseismo-electromagneticradiationprec...
简介:Heatflowisinevitablyaccompaniedbytemperaturechange,thus,thewatertemperaturecoseismicresponseduringearthquakeactivityshouldalsoobeythelawsofthermodynamics.TakingtheMS8.0Wenchuan,Sichuan,ChinaearthquakeandtheM9.0Tohoku,Japanearthquakeasanexample,andbasedonthedataofwatertemperaturecoseismicresponsesobservedinwellZK26inHaikou,HainanProvince,China,weinvestigatetherelationshipbetweenwellwatertemperaturechangeandheattransferinthecoseismicresponseprocessandtherelevantthermodynamicmechanismbyusingthenumericalsimulationmethodforthermodynamicequations.Then,throughforwardmodeling,weobtainseveralsimulationcurvesofwatertemperaturechangeinresponsetoearthquakesalongthewelldepthatdifferenttimes.Thesimulatedcurvesofwatertemperaturechangeapproximatelyfittheobservedcurves.Consequently,basedonthevariationoftemperature,wefindthatthemodesofwellwatertemperaturecoseismicresponse(ascending,descendingorstable)arerelatedtofactorssuchasthelocationofsensors,distributionandlocationofheatsources,thespanbetweensensorsandheatsources.