In the paper,we relocate the small earthquakes occurring in Linfen region from 1981 to 2010 by using the double-difference earthquake location algorithm. Our result shows that the distribution of relocated earthquakes is characterized by cluster activities,and most of the them occurred at the depths of 5～11km and 15～27km,which suggests that the two main seismogenic layers in this region are located in the upper and mid-upper crust. Earthquake frequency is high along both sides of the Subu Fault zone in the northern Linfen Basin,and most of the earthquakes in the north of Subu Fault zone are deeper than that in the south of Subu Fault. To some extent,this result indicates that the regional tectonic setting plays a major control role in the distribution of earthquakes. Analysis on the distribution of earthquake focal depths reveals that there exist deep faults which cut through the crust into the mantle in the middle of the Linfen Basin and connect with the active faults around the basin in the upper crust. The dislocations along the active faults on both sides of the basin are a reflex on the surface of faulting of the deep faults beneath the central basin.

Slip rates along the buried faults in Beijing plain area were investigated with the seismic waveform data between 2001 and 2006 recorded by the Beijing Digital Seismic Network.Using cross-correlation analysis of available waveforms,we identified a total of 35 doublets and 20 multiplets that show high waveform similarity.Most of these sequences are aperiodic with recurrence intervals varying from a few minutes to hundreds of days.Given the limited quantity and quality of seismic data in the study area,we have chosen a more robust approach to constrain repeated event locations.The approach incorporates both seismogram similarity by requiring cross correlation threshold and location similarity by requiring differential S-P(dSmP) time between events pairs to be small and minor internal inconsistence in travel time picking at sub-sample precision.The composite selection approach improves the identification of repeating earthquake based on similarity in waveforms.Based on four repeating sequences,we obtained the slip rate about 1.0 ～ 1.2mm/a at seismogenic depths of Hangzhuang-Gaoliying Fault and Nankou-Sunhe Fault,and the slip rate of 1.5mm/a at 9.4km of the south boundary fault of Huai' an Basin,which is consistent with geological and geodetic measurements.