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Apparent Stress Changes of the 2010 Luanxian Earthquake Sequence

LI He1, LIU Wen-bing2,1, WANG Yi-xi1, LIU Shuang-qing1, GONG Yong-jian1, SHANG Qing-qi1, GAO Ye1   

  1. 1. Earthquake Administration of Tianjin Municipality, Tianjin 300201, China;
    2. Institute of Geophysics, CEA, Beijing 100081, China
  • Received:2014-03-05 Online:2015-01-31 Published:2020-06-22

Abstract: On March 6, 2010, an earthquake of ML4.5 took place in Luanxian of Hebei province with plenty of foreshocks and aftershocks. From December 2009 to March 2010, a series of greater than ML2.5 earthquakes recorded by digital seismic network of the capital region, which were selected to calculate the apparent stress in this region. The result shows that, Firstly, high value anomaly of apparent stress appeared before the ML4.5 and peak value appeared on the mainshock, then it decreased after the ML4.5 earthquake. The apparent stress of the mainshock is much greater than most aftershocks, the sequence type is considered as majorafter shocks. Secondly, the size of apparent stress perfectly reflect the state of the stress field in the hypocenter region, and we can discuss seismic sequence properties through the changing process of apparent stress, in combination with the traditional methods to identify sequence more accurately. Finally, in the case of magnitude less than or equal to ML3.3, correlation between magnitude and apparent stress is positive.

Key words: Apparent stress, focal mechanism solution, Luanxian earthquake sequence

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