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Analysis of Regional Stress Disturbance Caused by Strong Earthquakes in Northern Tianshan: Taking 2012 Yili M6.6 Earthquake and 2017 Jinghe M6.6 Earthquakes as an Example

PANG Ya-jin1, CHENG Hui-hong2, DONG Pei-yu3, SHI Yao-lin2   

  1. 1.The First Monitoring and Application Center, CEA, Tianjin 300180, China;
    2.Key Laboratory of Computational Geodynamics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS, Beijing 100049, China;
    3.KEY Laboratory of Earthquake Geodesy, Institute of Seismology, CEA, Wuhan 430071, China
  • Received:2018-12-20 Online:2019-07-31 Published:2019-08-09

Abstract: In order to explore the influence of Moderate-Strong earthquake on the regional crustal deformation and seismic activity in Tian Shan, we calculated the coseismic and postseismic effects of the Yili MS6.6 earthquake in 2012 and Jinghe MS6.6 earthquake in 2017 on crustal deformation and stress, by adopting the elastic dislocation theory and the layered lithospheric model. The calculated results show that the both the MS6.6 earthquakes lead to coseismic displacement in the magnitude of several centimeters and crustal deformation in the magnitude of 10-7 within 80 km away from the epicenter. Compared with the annual average tectonic deformation characteristics in the northern Tianshan area, the M6.6 earthquakes release the accumulation of tectonic strain of nearly 10 years. The change of regional Coulomb stress is above 1 kPa near the epicenter within 80km, and is slight in the area far away from the epicenter. Combining the tectonic settings and seismic activity after the Jinghe earthquake, we find these two MS6.6 earthquakes have a significant triggering effect on post-earthquake aftershocks near the epicenter, while the influences on regional deformation and seismic activity are comparatively small.

Key words: Tienshan region, Strong earthquakes greater than M6.0, Co-seismic and post-seismic effects, Crustal stress changes, Seismic activity

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