SEISMOLOGY AND GEOLOGY ›› 2018, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (4): 753-772.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0253-4967.2018.04.003

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STUDY ON PALEOEARTHQUKES ALONG THE FODONGMIAO-HONGYAZI FAULT, GANSU PROVINCE

HUANG Xiong-nan, YANG Xiao-ping, YANG Hai-bo   

  1. Key Laboratory of Active Tectonics and Volcano, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing 100029, China
  • Received:2017-11-15 Revised:2018-02-24 Online:2018-08-20 Published:2018-09-26

佛洞庙-红崖子断裂古地震事件

黄雄南, 杨晓平, 杨海波   

  1. 中国地震局地质研究所, 活动构造与火山重点实验室, 北京 100029
  • 作者简介:黄雄南,男,1974年生,2003年于北京大学获构造地质学专业博士学位,副研究员,现主要从事构造地质学研究,电话:010-62009170,E-mail:xiongnan_h@sohu.com。
  • 基金资助:
    中国地震活动断层探察:南北地震带北段项目(20140823)和国家自然科学基金(41572195)共同资助

Abstract: The Fodongmiao-Hongyazi Fault is a Holocene active thrust fault, belonging to the middle segment of northern Qilianshan overthrust fault zone, located in the northeastern edge of the Tibet plateau. The Hongyapu M7(1/4) earthquake in 1609 AD occurred on it. A few paleo-seismology studies were carried out on this fault zone. It was considered that four paleoearthquakes occurred on the Fodongmiao-Hongyazi Fault between(6.3±0.6) ka BP and(7.4±0.4) ka BP, in(4.3±0.3) ka BP, in(2.1±0.1) ka BP and in 1609 AD. The occurrences of the earthquakes suggested the quasi-periodic characteristic with a quasi-periodic recurrence interval between 1 600~2 500a(Institute of Geology, State Seismological Bureau, Lanzhou Institute of Seismology, State Seismological Bureau. 1993; Liu et al., 2014). There was no direct evidence for the Hongyapu M7(1/4) earthquake in 1609 AD from trench research in the previous studies. Great uncertainty exists because of the small number of the chronology data, as a few TL and OSL measurement data and several14 C data, and it was insufficient to deduce the exact recurrence interval for the paleoearthquakes.
Five trenches were excavated and cleared up respectively in the eastern segment, middle segment and western segment along the Fodongmiao-Hongyazi Fault. After detail study on the trench profiles, the sedimentary characteristics, sequence relationship of the stratigraphical units, and fault-cuts in different stratigraphical units were revealed in these five trenches. Four paleoearthquakes in Holocene were distinguished from the five trenches, and geology evidences of the Hongyapu M7(1/4) earthquake in 1609 AD were also found.
More accurate constraint of the occurring time of the paleo-earthquakes since Holocene on the Fodongmiao-Hongyazi Fault is provided by the progressive constraining method(Mao and Zhang, 1995), according to amounts of 14 C measurement data and OLS measurement data of the chronology samples from different stratigraphical units in the trenches. The first paleoevent, E4 occurred 10.6ka BP. The next event, E3 occurred about 7.1ka BP. The E2 occurred about 3.4ka BP. The last event, E1 is the Hongyapu M7(1/4) earthquake in 1609 AD.
Abounds of proofs for the occurrences of the events of E1, E2 and E3 were found in the trench Tc1, trench Tc2, trench Tc4 and trench Tc3, located in the eastern, middle and western segments of the Fodongmiao-Hongyazi Fault accordingly. It's considered that the events E1, E2 and E3 may cause whole segment rupturing according to the proofs for these three events found together in individual trenches. The event E4 was only found in the trench Tc5 profile in the west of the Xiaoquan village in the eastern segment of the Fodongmiao-Hongyazi Fault. The earthquake rupture characteristics of this event can't be revealed before more detailed subsequent research.
The time intervals among the four paleoearthquakes are ca 3.5ka, ca 3.7ka, and ca 3.0ka. The four events are characterized by ca 3.4ka quasi-periodic recurrence interval.

Key words: paleoearthquake, Fodongmiao-Hongyazi Fault, Northern Qilianshan

摘要: 佛洞庙-红崖子断裂位于祁连山北缘断裂带中段,是1条活动逆断裂。在佛洞庙-红崖子断裂东、中、西各段落开挖整理了5个探槽。通过探槽揭示的各地层单元的沉积特征、各单元之间的层序关系以及断层对不同地层的切割关系,共辨认出了4次古地震事件。根据探槽中各地层单元的14C样品和光释光样品测年结果,对4次古地震事件给出了年龄制约:最早事件E4发生在距今约10.6ka,事件E3发生在距今约7.1ka,事件E2发生在距今约3.4ka,事件E1为1609年红崖堡地震。这4次地震事件的间隔分别约3.5ka、3.7ka和3.0ka,平均复发间隔约3.4ka,具有准周期重复特征。

关键词: 古地震, 佛洞庙-红崖子断裂, 祁连山北缘

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