SEISMOLOGY AND GEOLOGY ›› 2019, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (4): 887-912.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0253-4967.2019.04.006

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STUDY ON THE SEISMOGENIC FAULT AND DYNAMICS PARAME-TERS OF THE 2014 MS6.6 JINGGU EARTHQUAKE IN YUNNAN

XIE Zhang-di, HAN Zhu-jun   

  1. Key Laboratory of Active Tectonics and Volcano, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing 100029, China
  • Received:2018-08-31 Revised:2018-12-21 Online:2019-08-20 Published:2019-09-28

2014年云南景谷MS6.6地震发震断层及其动力学参数

谢张迪, 韩竹军   

  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
  • 通讯作者: 韩竹军,研究员,主要研究方向为活动构造与地震危险性分析,E-mail:zjhan0904@163.com
  • 作者简介:谢张迪,男,1992年生,2016年于防灾科技学院获地球物理学专业学士学位,现为中国地震局地质研究所构造地质学专业在读硕士研究生,主要从事小震精定位和震源机制解等方面的研究,E-mail:zdxier@qq.com。
  • 基金资助:
    国家自然科学基金(41772218)资助

Abstract: On October 17, 2014, a MS6.6 earthquake occurred in Jinggu, Yunnan. The epicenter was located in the western branch of Wuliang Mountain, the northwest extension line of Puwen Fault. There are 2 faults in the surrounding area, one is a sinistral strike-slip and the other is the dextral. Two faults have mutual intersection with conjugate joints property to form a checkerboard faulting structure. The structure of the area of the focal region is complex. The present-day tectonic movement is strong, and the aftershock distribution indicates the faulting surface trending NNW. There is no obvious surface rupture related to the known fault in the epicenter, and there is a certain distance from the surface of the Puwen fault zone. Regional seismic activity is strong. In 1941, there were two over magnitude 7.0 earthquakes in the south of the epicenter of Jinggu County and Mengzhe Town. In 1988, two mainshock-aftershock type earthquakes occurred in Canglan-Gengma Counties, the principal stress axes of the whole seismic area is in the direction of NNE. Geological method can be adopted to clarify the distribution of surficial fracture caused by active faults, and high-precision seismic positioning and spatial distribution characteristics of seismic sequences can contribute to understand deep seismogenic faults and geometric features. Thus, we can better analyze the three-dimensional spatial distribution characteristics of seismotectonics and the deep and shallow tectonic relationship. The focal mechanism reveals the property and faulting process to a certain extent, which can help us understand not only the active property of faults, but also the important basis for deep tectonic stress and seismogenic mechanism. In order to study the fault characteristic of the Jinggu earthquake, the stress field characteristics of the source area and the geometric parameters of the fault plane, this paper firstly uses the 15 days aftershock data of the Jingsuo MS6.6 earthquake, to precisely locate the main shock and aftershock sequences using double-difference location method. The results show that the aftershock sequences have clustering characteristics along the NW direction, with a depth mainly of 5~15km. Based on the precise location, calculations are made to the focal mechanisms of a total of 46 earthquakes including the main shock and aftershocks with ML ≥ 3.0 of the Jinggu earthquake. The double-couple(DC)component of the focal mechanism of the main shock shows that nodal plane Ⅰ:The strike is 239°, the dip 81°, and the rake -22°; nodal plane Ⅱ, the strike is 333°, the dip 68°, and the rake -170.31°. According to focal mechanism solutions, there are 42 earthquakes with a focal mechanism of strike-slip type, accounting for 91.3%. According to the distribution of the aftershock sequence, it can be inferred that the nodal plane Ⅱ is the seismogenic fault. The obtained focal mechanism is used to invert the stress field in the source region. The distribution of horizontal maximum principal stress orienation is concentrated. The main features of the regional tectonic stress field are under the NNE-SSW compression(P axis)and the NW-SE extension(T axis)and are also affected by NNW direction stress fields in the central region of Yunnan, which indicates that Jinggu earthquake fault, like Gengma earthquake, is a new NW-trending fault which is under domination of large-scale tectonic stress and effected by local tectonic stress environment. In order to define more accurately the occurrence of the fault plane of the Jinggu earthquake, with the precise location results and the stress field in the source region, the global optimal solution of the fault plane parameters and its error are obtained by using both global searching simulated annealing algorithm and local searching Gauss-Newton method. Since the parameters of the fault plane fitting process use the stress parameters obtained by the focal mechanism inversion, the data obtained by the fault plane fitting is more representative of the rupture plane, that is, the strike 332.75°, the dip 89.53°, and the rake -167.12°. The buried depth of the rupture plane is 2.746km, indicating that the source fault has not cut through the surface. Based on the stress field characteristics and the inversion results of the fault plane, it is preliminarily believed that the seismogenic structure of the Jinggu earthquake is a newly generated nearly vertical right-lateral strike-slip fault with normal component. The rupture plane length is about 17.2km, which does not extend to the Puwen fault zone. Jinggu earthquake occurred in Simao-Puer seismic region in the south of Sichuan-Yunnan plate. Its focal mechanism solution is similar to that of the three sub-events of the Gengma earthquake in November 1988. The seismogenic structure of both of them is NW-trending and the principal stress is NE-SW. The rupture plane of the Jinggu main shock(NW direction)is significantly different from the known near NS direction Lancang Fault and the near NE direction Jinggu Fault in the study area. It is preliminarily inferred that the seismogenic structure of this earthquake has a neogenetic feature.

Key words: Jinggu earthquake, focal mechanism solution, stress field of the source area, seismogenic fault

摘要: 2014年10月17日云南景谷发生了MS6.6地震,震源区构造复杂,震中无明显与已知断层相关的地表破裂,且与普文断裂出露地表的位置存在一定距离。为研究景谷地震发震断层的性质、震源区应力场特征和断层面的几何学参数,文中在精定位的基础上计算了景谷主震和余震序列共46个ML3.0以上地震的震源机制解,并反演了震源区应力场。依据模拟退火全局搜索和高斯牛顿局部搜索相结合的方法,获取了断层面参数的全局最优解及其误差。初步认为景谷地震的发震构造为一条新生的兼具正断性质的近直立右旋走滑断层,破裂面长约17.2km,未延伸到普文断裂;震源区应力场中的最大水平主压力(P轴)为NNE-SSW向,水平张应力(T轴)为NW-SE向。

关键词: 景谷地震, 震源机制解, 震源区应力场, 发震断层

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