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EARTHQUAKE ›› 2021, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (2): 92-101.doi: 10.12196/j.issn.1000-3274.2021.02.007

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The Earthquake Fault and Seismogenic Mechanism of the Yutian MS6.4 Earthquake in Xinjiang, China in 2020

WANG Qin-cai1, LI Jun2, ZHANG Jin-chuan3   

  1. 1. Institute of earthquake forcasting, CEA, Beijing 100036, China;
    2. The Second Monitoring and Application Center, CEA, Xi’an 710054, China;
    3. Earthquake Administration of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing 210014, China
  • Received:2021-01-27 Revised:2021-03-02 Online:2021-04-30 Published:2021-08-06

Abstract: By the seismic phase and waveform data of the Yutian MS6.4 earthquake sequence occurred on June 26th, 2020, earthquakes are relocated and the focal mechanism solutions of moderate and strong earthquakes are inversed. Using the Global Centroid-Moment-Tensor (GCMT) data from 2008 to present, the stress field in the boundary area between the West Kunlun block and the Qaidam-Qilian block is inversed. The results show that the seismogenic fault of Yutian MS6.4 earthquake sequence on June 26, 2020 is a strike-SSW, dipping NWW normal fault, and the occurrence of MS6.4 earthquake may be related to the rupture of normal fault in front of the Ulugh Muztagh mountain. The boundary area between the West Kunlun block and the Qaidamu-Qilian block is in the consistent status with the east-west tensile stress model, which supports the eastward movement model that the Qaidamu-Qilian block delineated by the large strike-slip fault in the northern part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

Key words: Earthquake fault, Seismogenic mechanism, The Yutian MS6.4 earthquake in Xinjiang in 2020

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