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Fault Plane Determination for the 2011 ML3.7 Anqiu Earthquake, Shandong Province

LI Yan'e, GUO Xiang-yun, WANG Heng-xin, CHEN Xue-zhong   

  1. Institute of Geophysics, CEA, Beijing 100081, China
  • Received:2011-08-31 Revised:2012-04-26 Published:2021-08-19

Abstract: By considering 1D finite moving source model propagating unilaterally, the corner frequency is employed to determine the azimuth of rupture propagation direction and the parameters of fault plane of the Shandong Anqiu ML3.7 earthquake on May 20, 2011, by means of correlation coefficient method. The results show that the azimuth angle of the fault plane for this event is about 112.2°, consistent with the EW nodal plane of the focal mechanism solution. The seismic Mach number v/c is about 0.2695, which means that the average rupture velocity is about a quarter of the S-wave velocity. Given the velocity of S wave 3.5 km/s, the fault length is about 0.1162 km.

Key words: Corner frequency, Correlation coefficient method, Parameters of fault plane, Seismic Mach number

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