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EARTHQUAKE ›› 2021, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (3): 22-31.doi: 10.12196/j.issn.1000-3274.2021.03.002

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Preliminary Analysis of GPS Strain Field Cloud Method for Idenetifying Seismic Deformation Field Anomalies

CHANG Jin-long1,2, GAN Wei-jun3, MENG Ling-sheng1, ZHU Cheng-lin4, LIU Jun-qing5   

  1. 1. Heilongjiang Earthquake Agency, Harbin 150090, China;
    2. Hegang Seismic Station of Heilongjiang Province, Hegang 154101, China;
    3. State Key Laboratory of Earthquake Dynamics, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing 100029, China;
    4. Shandong Earthquake Agency, Jinan 250000, China;
    5. Jilin Earthquake Agency, Changchun 130117, China
  • Received:2020-02-26 Revised:2020-07-24 Online:2021-07-31 Published:2021-11-02

Abstract: This paper introduces a method to obtain the anomaly of seismic deformation field by strain field cloud map. The basic idea is as follows. Firstly, we fit the GPS displacement time series in the specified time window, interpolate the velocity field and calculate the strain field. Then we obtain the cloud map of the strain field which varies continuously in space-time sliding with a certain step length and extract the anomaly information of seismic deformation field. We analyzed the relationship between strain field cloud map and Menyuan MS6.4 earthquake. The results show that this method has certain indicative effect on earthquake. At the 2019 year-end provincial Seismologic Consideration, the practicability of this method is tested by predicting Nenjiang ML4.5 earthquake. The research shows that this method is an effective and intuitive method to identify abnormal deformation field before earthquake.

Key words: GPS strain cloud map, Deformation feld spatiotemporal evolution, Deformation field anomaly, Seismologic consideration

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