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EARTHQUAKE ›› 2018, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (2): 37-50.

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Heterogeneous Strain Rate Field in the Northeast Margin of Bayan Har Block from GPS Observations and its Relationship with the 2017 Jiuzhaigou MS7.0 Earthquake

LI Cheng-tao1, SU Xiao-ning1,2, MENG Guo-jie1   

  1. 1.Key Laboratory of Earthquake Prediction, Institute of Earthquake Science, CEA, Beijing 100036, China;
    2.College of Surveying and Geo-informatics, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
  • Received:2017-12-15 Published:2019-08-15

Abstract: The northeast margin of Balyan Har block is a region of strong tectonic deformation and active seismicity. The 2017 Jiuzhaigou MS7.0 earthquake occurred in this zone. We use the method of multi-scale sphere wavelet to estimate GPS strain filed and analyse strain field in the northeast margin of Balyan Har block from 2009 to 2017. The advantage of this method is that the GPS strain rate field can be decomposed according to different spatial scales, and can give the strain rate field of different space scales. The results show that the before the 2017 Jiuzhaigou earthquake, the strain accumulation near the epicenter zone has been significant. Strike-slip rate in the extension of the north Huya fault is 3.0 mm/a, tensile rate is 3.1 mm/a. It indicates that the fault is dominated by left-lateral slip accompanied by tensile, which is consistent with the focal mechanism of the Jiuzhaigou earthquake. Besides, in the junction of Minxian and Zhangxian, Lixian, Wenchuan and Qingchuan areas, There also exists large principal strain rate, the dilatation rate, and maximum shear strain rate, which may relate with the 2013 Minxian-Zhangxian MS6.6, the 2008 Wenchuan MS8.0 and the 2014 Lixian MS4.8, Qingchuan MS4.8 Earthquakes.

Key words: GPS observations, Strain rate field, The 2017 Jiuzhaigou MS7.0, The northeast margin of Bayan Har block

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