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EARTHQUAKE ›› 2012, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (4): 148-156.

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Effects of Coulomb Stress Changes from the 1995 Cangshan M5.2 Earthquake

QU Jun-Hao1,2, LI Jin3, SHI Yu-Yan1, SONG Jin4, CUI Xin1 WANG Dong-lei1, LU Zi-lin1, ZHANG Zhi-hui1   

  1. 1. Earthquake Administration of Shandong Province, Jinan 250014, China;
    2. Insitute of Geology, CEA, Beijing 100029, China;
    3. Instituite of Earthquake Science, CEA, Beijing 100036, China;
    4. China Earthquake Networks Center, Beijing 100045, China
  • Received:2012-04-24 Revised:2012-07-23 Published:2021-08-19

Abstract: In order to investigate Coulomb stress changes from the 1995 Cangshan M5.2 earthquake and the effects on surrounding faults, geometry parameters and kinematic parameters of faults have been collected and different received faults are used. The results show that the positive Coulomb stress promotes aftershock activities and most aftershocks distributed in Coulomb stress increasing region, the value of which is about 0.003~0.005 MPa. Comparing the seismic references of 16 years before and after the Cangshan earthquake, we found that positive Coulomb stress increases the stress around Cangshan fault, but the effects of the Coulomb stress changes on other faults can be ignored due to the farther distance.

Key words: Coulomb stress, Triggering effect, Cangshan earthquake

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