Horizontal crustal movement before the great Wenchuan earthquake obtained from GPS observations in the regional network

查看全文 作　　者：Guohua Gu Wuxing Wang Yueren Xu Wenjun [1]Li

机构地区：[1]Institute of Earthquake Science, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing 100036, China

出　　处：《Earthquake Science》索引2009年第22卷第5期,共8页

基　　金：supported by National Key Technology Research and Development Program (2006BAC01B02-02-05);Basic Research Plan of the Institute of Earthquake Science,China Earthquake Administration (0207690239) 摘　　要：The great Wenchuan earthquake of M8.0 on May 12,2008,occurred in an area with dense GPS observation stations in the regional network of the Crustal Movement Observation Network of China(CMONOC).Non-continuous observations were carried out at the 1 000 GPS stations of the regional network in 1999,2001,2004 and 2007.The horizontal displacements at GPS stations in the regional network before the Wenchuan earthquake show that the main driving tectonic force of the earthquake was the northward pushing of the Indian plate,added at the same time by the pushing of plates on the east and south.In comparison to the displacements in other regions,the horizontal displacements near and around the seismic area is characterized by diverging eastward displacements,that is,the stations to the north of the epicenter moved in the ENE direction while those to the south of epicenter moved in ESE direction with smaller displacements at stations near the epicenter.The accuracy of the estimated strain results is briefly discussed.In order to obtain the anomalous information before the earthquake,the methods of both best fits by trend surface and statistics have been used in the study for finding the future epicentral area from the strain accumulations in the regional network observed from 1999 to 2007 before the Wenchuan earthquake.Besides the epicentral area of the western Kunlun mountain pass earthquake of M8.1 in 2001,the results of best fits by trend surfaces of the strain accumulations from 1999 to 2007 in the regional network show that the Wenchuan earthquake occurred at the eastern fringe of a large area with relatively large accumulations of the first shear strains and also at the northeastern fringe of a smaller area with significant accumulated areal compressions.The statistics of the accumulations of the strain components demonstrates that they also showed anomalous distribution patterns in this area and its neighborhood with increasing accumulations of both shear strains and areal compressions. 关键词：地震水平位移震中地区观测数据分析

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