The 20 April 2013 Lushan, Sichuan, mainshock, and its aftershock sequence: tectonic implications

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摘要 Usingthedouble-differencerelocationalgorithm,werelocatedthe20April2013Lushan,Sichuan,earthquake(MS7.0),andits4,567aftershocksrecordedduringtheperiodbetween20AprilandMay3,2013.Ourresultsshowedthatmostaftershocksarerelocatedbetween10and20kmdepths,butsomelargeaftershockswererelocatedaround30kmdepthandsmalleventsextendedupwardnearthesurface.Verticalcrosssectionsillustrateashovel-shapedfaultplanewithavariabledipanglefromthesouthwesttonortheastalongthefault.Furthermore,thedipangleofthefaultplaneissmalleraroundthemainshockthanthatinthesurroundingareasalongthefault.Theseresultssuggestthatitmaybeeasytogeneratethestrongearthquakeintheplacehavingasmalldipangleofthefault,whichissomewhatsimilartothegenesisofthe2008Wenchuanearthquake.TheLushanmainshockisunderlainbytheseismicallyanomalouslayerswithlow-VP,low-VS,andhigh-Poisson’sratioanomalies,possiblysuggestingthatthefluid-filledfracturedrockmatricesmightsignificantlyreducetheeffectivenormalstressonthefaultplanetobringthebrittlefailure.TheseismicgapbetweenLushanandWenchuanaftershocksissuspectedtobevulnerabletofutureseismicrisksatgreaterdepths,ifany.
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出处 《地震学报:英文版》 2014年1期
出版日期 2014年01月11日(中国期刊网平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)
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