Preliminary results pertaining to coseismic displacement and preseismic strain accumulation of the Lushan M S7.0 earthquake, as reflected by GPS surveying

This paper presents the coseismic displacement and preseismic deformation fields of the Lushan M _S7.0 earthquake that occurred on April 20, 2013. The results are based on GPS observations along the Longmenshan fault and within its vicinity. The coseismic displacement and preseismic GPS results indicate that in the strain release of this earthquake, the thrust rupture is dominant and the laevorotation movement is secondary. Furthermore, we infer that any possible the rupture does not reach the earth’s surface, and the seismogenic fault is most likely one fault to the east of the Guanxian-Anxian fault. Some detailed results are obtainable. (1) The southern segment of the Longmenshan fault is locked preceding the Lushan earthquake. After the Wenchuan earthquake, the strain accumulation rate in the southeast direction accelerates in the epicenter of the Lushan earthquake, and the angle between the principal compressional strain and the seismogenic fault indicates that a sinistral deformation background in the direction of the seismogenic fault precedes the Lushan earthquake. Therefore, it is evident that the Wenchuan M _S8.0 earthquake accelerated the pregnancy of the Lushan earthquake. (2) The coseismic displacements reflected by GPS data are mainly located in a region that is 230 km (NW direction) × 100 km (SW direction), and coseismic displacements larger than 10 mm lie predominantly in a 100-km region (NW direction). (3) On a large scale, the coseismic displacement shows thrust characteristics, but the associated values are remarkably small in the near field (within 70 km) of the earthquake fault. Meanwhile, the thrust movement in this 70-km region does not correspond with the attenuation characteristics of the strain release, indicating that the rupture of this earthquake does not reach the earth’s surface. (4) The laevorotation movements are remarkable in the 50-km region, which is located in the hanging wall that is close to the earthquake fault, and the corresponding values in this case correlate with the attenuation characteristics of the strain release.     

Near-field postseismic deformation along the rupture of 2008 Wenchuan earthquake and its implications

At first time, we observed the postseismic deformation, which actually is a kind of creep after slip, along the intra-plate active fault associated with the Wenchuan earthquake. To understand the near-field postseismic deformation following 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan Province of China, we compared the fault scarp or flexure scarp profiles measured in different campaigns. Our result shows that among total 19 observation sites, on 13 sites (68% of 19) fault scarps fall back with an average about 9.7% decrease; on 5 sites (26% of 19) fault scarps present no change; and on one site (6% of 19) fault scarp continues to uplift with 12.8% increase. The variety of fault scarp we observed results mainly from near-field postseismic deformation, after slip occurred in shallow. Based on our observations, the following are demonstrated: except for the southwestern end near Yingxiu Town where coseismic slip deficit and some elastic energy residue exist there, fall back (68%) or non-changing (26%) of fault scarp shows energy balance or energy deficit due to overthrust, implying that the likelihood of occurrence of strong aftershocks of ≥ M7 becomes very small in these energy-released areas. Moreover, we suggest that a minimum of 10% error due to near-field postseismic deformation should be considered when evaluating the magnitude of historic and paleoearthquake or slip rate based on the fault scarp dis-placement, even though the error caused by erosion has been accounted already.     

Contemporary crustal movement of continental China obtained by global positioning system (GPS) measurements

We obtain a unified horizontal velocity field of continental China and vicinity through measurements at 81 GPS stations provided by the National Key Infrastructure Project, Crustal Movement Observation Network of China. The velocity field delineates patterns of movements and deformation of active crustal blocks in continental China under the Eurasia-fixed reference frame. The space-based geodesy also clearly shows for the first time the horizontal movement and deformation of continental China induced by indentation of the Indian plate. The data provide kinematic constraints for simulating dynamic process of continental lithospheric deformation.     

Static slip model of the M w 9.0 Tohoku (Japan) earthquake: Results from joint inversion of terrestrial GPS data and seafloor GPS/acoustic data

Based on co-seismic displacements recorded by terrestrial GPS stations and seafloor GPS/acoustic stations, the static slip model of the 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku earthquake was determined by inverting the data using a layered earth model. According to a priori information, the rupture surface was modeled with a geometry that is close to the actual rupture, in which the fault dip angle increases with depth and the fault strike varies with the trend of the trench. As shown by the results inferred from the joint inversion, the "geodetic" moment is 3.68 × 10 22 Nm, corresponding to Mw 9.01, and the maximum slip is positioned at a depth of 13.5 km with a slip magnitude of 45.8 m. Rupture asperities with slip exceeding 10 m are mainly distributed from 39.6 to 36.97°N, over a length of almost 240 km along the trench. The slip was mostly concentrated at depths shallower than 40 km, up-dip of the hypocenter. "Checkerboard" tests reveal that a joint inversion of multiple datasets can resolve the slip distribution better than an inversion with terrestrial GPS data only-especially when aiming to resolve slip at shallow depths. Thus, the joint inversion results obtained by this work may provide a more reliable slip model than the results of other studies that are only derived from terrestrial GPS data or seismic waveform data.     

Resonant slow fault slip in subduction zones forced by climatic load stress

Global Positioning System (GPS) measurements at subduction plate boundaries often record fault movements similar to earthquakes but much slower, occurring over timescales of approximately 1 week to approximately 1 year. These 'slow slip events' have been observed in Japan, Cascadia, Mexico, Alaska and New Zealand. The phenomenon is poorly understood, but several observations hint at the processes underlying slow slip. Although slip itself is silent, seismic instruments often record coincident low-amplitude tremor in a narrow (1-5 cycles per second) frequency range. Also, modelling of GPS data and estimates of tremor location indicate that slip focuses near the transition from unstable ('stick-slip') to stable friction at the deep limit of the earthquake-producing seismogenic zone. Perhaps most intriguingly, slow slip is periodic at several locations, with recurrence varying from 6 to 18 months depending on which subduction zone (or even segment) is examined. Here I show that such periodic slow fault slip may be a resonant response to climate-driven stress perturbations. Fault slip resonance helps to explain why slip events are periodic, why periods differ from place to place, and why slip focuses near the base of the seismogenic zone. Resonant slip should initiate within the rupture zone of future great earthquakes, suggesting that slow slip may illuminate fault properties that control earthquake slip.     

GPS监测地壳形变漂移速度的计算

根据动态卡尔曼滤波理论,结合GPS监测地壳形变数据处理的特点,构建了动态卡尔曼滤波计算地壳运动漂移速度的数学模型.结合IGS的GPS连续观测网络部分站点的多期数据,使用精密定位定轨软件GAMIT进行定位计算,获得高精度的站点坐标.将坐标作为具有先验方差信息的准观测值,设置站点漂移速度为未知数,进行卡尔曼滤波漂移速度的估计.计算结果与已有结果的比较表明,卡尔曼滤波漂移速度估计可以达到mm级的精度,可用于GPS监测地壳形变进行漂移速度的估计.     

Tectonic contraction across Los Angeles after removal of groundwater pumping effects

After the 1987 Whittier Narrows and 1994 Northridge earthquakes revealed that blind thrust faults represent a significant threat to metropolitan Los Angeles, a network of 250 continuously recording global positioning system (GPS) stations was deployed to monitor displacements associated with deep slip on both blind and surface faults. Here we augment this GPS data with interferometric synthetic aperture radar imagery to take into account the deformation associated with groundwater pumping and strike-slip faulting. After removing these non-tectonic signals, we are left with 4.4 mm yr-1 of uniaxial contraction across the Los Angeles basin, oriented N 36 degrees E (perpendicular to the major strike-slip faults in the area). This indicates that the contraction is primarily accommodated on thrust faults rather than on the northeast-trending strike-slip faults. We have found that widespread groundwater and oil pumping obscures and in some cases mimics the tectonic signals expected from the blind thrust faults. In the 40-km-long Santa Ana basin, groundwater withdrawal and re-injection produces 12 mm yr-1 of long-term subsidence, accompanied by an unprecedented seasonal oscillation of 55 mm in the vertical direction and 7 mm horizontally.     

The maximum coseismic vertical surface displacement and surface deformation pattern accompanying the Ms 8.0 Wenchuan earthquake

The amount of coseismic deformation and its distribution of the Wenchuan earthquake provide important scientific bases for revealing the mechanisms of earthquake preparation and characterizing the rupture propagation of the Wenchuan earthquake. The previous studies have indicated that the earthquake ruptured the middle-to-north segment of the Longmenshan central fault and the middle segment of the Longmenshan range-front fault, which are characterized by two surface rupture zones of 240 km and 90 km in length, respectively. Based on the pre-earthquake information and photos of landforms and buildings obtained through ge-ologic and geomorphic survey of the area around Shaba Village of Beichuan County, Sichuan Province and the extensive interview with local villagers, we measured the displacements of the major terrain features and the dislocated buildings by total station instruments and differential GPS and obtained the maximum vertical displacement of 9±0.5 m and right-lateral displacement of 2±0.5 m around the Zou’s house in Shaba Village. Though the near-surface deformation exhibits a normal faulting around Shaba Village, the dynamic environment has not changed on the whole. The NW wall of the fault uplifted but without gravity gliding as normally occurring on the hanging wall of a normal fault, which proves that the 9±0.5 m displacement should be the maximum coseismic vertical displacement of the May 12, 2008 Ms 8.0 Wenchuan earthquake.     

中国地壳运动观测网络的海潮位移改正系数

大型GPS分析软件包GAMIT从10.0以上版本开始，正式采用由瑞典Onsala空间观测站Mr.H.G.Scher-neck提供的海潮位移改正系数表stations.oct,用来计算GPS测站的海潮位移改正，但是系数表中只包含少数中国的IGS站，不能满足国内高精度大地测量，特别是地壳形变监测等数据处理的需要，为此，利用NAO99b全球海潮模型和基于1066A地球模型的格林函数，计算了中国地壳运动观测网络全部25个基准站的海潮位移改正系数，将计算得到的系数替换或补充到原有的stations,oct文件中，就可以在计算海潮位移改正时减少测站坐标内插所带来的误差，提高GPS数据处理的精度。     

Insight into the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake from GPS measurements in southeast Asia

Data collected at approximately 60 Global Positioning System (GPS) sites in southeast Asia show the crustal deformation caused by the 26 December 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake at an unprecedented large scale. Small but significant co-seismic jumps are clearly detected more than 3,000 km from the earthquake epicentre. The nearest sites, still more than 400 km away, show displacements of 10 cm or more. Here we show that the rupture plane for this earthquake must have been at least 1,000 km long and that non-homogeneous slip is required to fit the large displacement gradients revealed by the GPS measurements. Our kinematic analysis of the GPS recordings indicates that the centroid of released deformation is located at least 200 km north of the seismological epicentre. It also provides evidence that the rupture propagated northward sufficiently fast for stations in northern Thailand to have reached their final positions less than 10 min after the earthquake, hence ruling out the hypothesis of a silent slow aseismic rupture.     

Slip rate along the Lijiang-Ninglang fault zone estimated from repeating microearthquakes

Seismicity and slip rates along the Lijiang-Ninglang fault zone between 1999 and 2006 were investigated with the waveform data recorded by the Yunnan digital Seismic Network. The relocated seismicity by the double difference method clearly exhibits different features between the northern and southern segments. More than 76% earthquakes occurred in the southern segment of the fault near the Lijiang area. The relocated seismicity appears to reflect the crustal velocity structure of the study area. Using cross-correlation analysis, we identified a total of 92 doublets and 70 multiplets that show high waveform similarity. Most of these sequences are aperiodic with recurrence intervals varying from a few minutes to hundreds of days. Using two sequences that occurred regularly over the study period, we obtained a fault slip rate of approximately 5 mm/a at ∼23 km, in good agreement with geologic and surface GPS measurement. Supported by National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2004CB418405) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 40174014)     

中国境内IGS站数据处理及地壳运动研究

利用中国境内国际GPS大地测量和地球动力学服务(IGS)站的GPS单天数据,使用GAMIT软件对其进行基线解算.以单天解的基线结果作为输入量,利用所介绍的台站漂移数学模型,求解台站漂移速度,得到地壳运动信息;再根据板块运动欧拉定理,求解中国大陆整体的欧拉矢量.结果表明,在ITRF2000框架下,求解的台站漂移速度与IGS公布的结果相近,由此求解的中国大陆整体的欧拉矢量与采用IGS公布数据计算的结果相近.     

Combined adjustment project of national astronomical geodetic networks and 2000'''' national GPS control network

The combined adjustment of astronomical geode tic networks and the 2000’national GPS control net work is a national geodetic project based on the pre sent necessities and long term program of national e conomic development. This project has profound sci entific, social and economic significance, and willproduce an effect on developments of space scienceand national defense construction as well as geodesyitself.China took part in the second international radioobservational projec…     

Plate-boundary deformation associated with the great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake

The Sumatra-Andaman earthquake of 26 December 2004 is the first giant earthquake (moment magnitude M(w) > 9.0) to have occurred since the advent of modern space-based geodesy and broadband seismology. It therefore provides an unprecedented opportunity to investigate the characteristics of one of these enormous and rare events. Here we report estimates of the ground displacement associated with this event, using near-field Global Positioning System (GPS) surveys in northwestern Sumatra combined with in situ and remote observations of the vertical motion of coral reefs. These data show that the earthquake was generated by rupture of the Sunda subduction megathrust over a distance of >1,500 kilometres and a width of <150 kilometres. Megathrust slip exceeded 20 metres offshore northern Sumatra, mostly at depths shallower than 30 kilometres. Comparison of the geodetically and seismically inferred slip distribution indicates that approximately 30 per cent additional fault slip accrued in the 1.5 months following the 500-second-long seismic rupture. Both seismic and aseismic slip before our re-occupation of GPS sites occurred on the shallow portion of the megathrust, where the large Aceh tsunami originated. Slip tapers off abruptly along strike beneath Simeulue Island at the southeastern edge of the rupture, where the earthquake nucleated and where an M(w) = 7.2 earthquake occurred in late 2002. This edge also abuts the northern limit of slip in the 28 March 2005 M(w) = 8.7 Nias-Simeulue earthquake.     

青藏高原嘉黎断裂晚第四纪运动特征

通过野外考察与GPS观测数据的综合分析, 对嘉黎断裂晚第四纪运动特征得到一些新的认识。嘉黎断裂不是整体右旋走滑断层, 其不同构造部位的运动性质和速率具有分段差异特征。以东构造结为界大致分为3段: 东构造结以西为嘉黎断裂西北段, 东构造结顶端易贡?通麦段为嘉黎断裂中段, 东构造结东南部分为嘉黎断裂的东南段。西北段为右旋挤压运动, 走滑速率3.2~5.8 mm/a; 中段弱右旋挤压运动, 走滑速率1.3~2.0 mm/a; 东南段为左旋挤压运动, 走滑速率3.7~4.0 mm/a。     

城市GPS三维形变监测网的建立和数据处理

近几年来,对建立城市GPS三维形变监测网的有关问题进行了较系统深入的探讨,对GPS监测网的基准和系统性偏差等问题作过论述,在此基础上对有关问题作进一步讨论。研究表明,在GPS的观测和数据处理中采取一些有效措施后,其监测精度可以达到毫米级．因此,建立兼有监测三维形变功能的城市GPS控制网是值得推广的,它对于城市防灾减灾县有重要意义．     

Monitoring crustal deformation by GPS and InSAR in the three gorge area

The on-going Three Gorges Project (TGP) aims to build one of the largest hydropower stations in the world. Previous investigations have concluded that the reservoir is likely to induce medium-to-intense earthquakes. 23 GPS stations have been established to maintain a geodetic and seismological monitoring network around the reservoir to monitor seismicity and crustal deformation, and to facilitate mitigation activities in case an intense earthquake occurs. The velocity of GPS site was derived from 3 repeated GPS surveys. Meanwhile, another effort has been made to investigate the feasibility of application of satellite interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) techniques in detecting crustal deformation possibly caused by impoundment of the Three Gorges Reservoir. It has been made to derive digital elevation models (DEM) using European Remote Sensing (ERS) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery. Pairs of ERS SAR images in raw format are processed to generate digital elevation models. This effort will help us evaluate the accuracy of the InSAR techniques for further derivation of background deformation patterns and future detection of reservoir-induced crustal deformation in the area. Foundation item: Supported by the Seismological Union Foundation of China (602015), NASA grant of US(NAG5-9065) and Key Project of China Seismological Bureau(95-12-02) Biography: Qiao Xue-jun(1968-), male, Associated professor, research direction: crustal deformation.     

基于GPS定位原理的轨道外部几何参数测量系统

 利用GPS 定位全天候、高效率、低成本的特性,设计出一种新型的轨道外部几何参数测量系统.该系统由卫星系统、加载接收机的轨检仪、控制网和GPRS 发射站组成.测量前,先构建边连式同步图形扩展式带状轨道监测控制网,并在现有的轨检仪上加载GPS 接收机.测量过程中,轨检仪沿轨道运动:GPS 控制网中4 个GPS 基站与轨检仪上GPS 流动站实时采集定位信息;定位信息经双差处理和整周模糊度解算后,得到RTK(real-time kinematic)观测量,确立轨道中心线;结合轨检小车测出的轨道内部几何参数和轨道中心线,解算出轨道高程.静态实验与外场试验结果表明:该测量系统自动化程度较高,静态观测误差在0.5 mm 以内,动态误差在15 mm 以内,完全能够满足轨道外部几何参数高精度测量的要求.     

一阶差分与小波分析的GPS观测数据粗差探测

赫章特大桥超高桥墩在施工过程中,采用GPS对桥墩在施工过程的变形进行了监测。受施工现场环境影响,GPS变形观测数据中存在多种粗差,含有粗差的观测量如果直接参与后续数据分析,将导致分析结果的不正确。本文基于一阶差分法与小波分析法,对赫章特大桥的GPS变形观测数据进行了粗差探测。结果表明,两种方法对粗差探测的结果不完全一致,都不能将粗差全部探测出来,且此两种方法都存在将部分正确值当成粗差观测值的现象。     

南阳凹陷边界断层三维几何学及运动学特征

新野断层位于南襄盆地南阳凹陷南部的控凹边界断裂,研究其三维几何学和运动学特征对分析南阳凹陷的形成演化至关重要。以2/3D地震、钻井及测井资料为基础,以正断层相关褶皱理论和构造复原理论为指导,深入剖析新野断层的三维几何学和运动学特征及其对凹陷形成的控制作用。根据断层平面走向,结合倾角和断距变化,将新野断层分为西、中、东3段;空间上认为,新野断层是由多个等倾角面构成的复杂曲面,通过两个垂向轴面和4个横向轴面,将新野断层断面分为11个等倾角区。根据平衡地质剖面复原结果对比,认为新野断层西段、东段形成于晚白垩世,中段形成于始新世大仓房期并逐渐与西段、东段硬连接形成一条断层;断层及其上盘地层旋转程度自西向东逐渐增强;断层反转强度自西向东亦逐渐变大。新野断层西段为"座椅式"正断层,中段由"转折式"正断层转"犁式"正断层,东段为"犁式"正断层。沿断层走向的差异沉降和断面形态差异是南阳凹陷构造特征及形成演化的重要控制因素。