简介:Bycalculatingtheazimuth,phaseangleandchangerateoftidalforce,andcontrastingtheirrupturetypes,wefindthatin6of11reversefaultingearthquakes,theanglesbetweenthedirectionofthehorizontaltidalforceandcompressiveprincipalstressarewithin33°,theverticalphaseanglesofall8strike-slipearthquakesareintheupwardpeaksectionandtheverticalphaseanglesoftwoextensionalnormalfaultingearthquakesareinthedownwardpeaksection.Accordingtotheabovestatistics,themechanismoftidalforcetriggeringoftheWenchuanMS8.0Earthquakeanditsstrongaftershocksisdiscussed.
简介:Basedondatacollectedfromatemporalseismicnetwork,andinadditiontothedatafromsomenearbypermanentstations,weinvestigatethevelocitystructureandseismicityintheRongchanggasfield,wheresignificantinjection-inducedseismicityhasbeenidentified.First,weusereceiverfunctionsfromdistantearthquakestoinvertdetailed1-Dvelocitystructuresbeneathtypicalstations.Then,weusethedouble-differencehypocenterlocationmethodtore-locateearthquakesofthe2010ML5.1earthquakesequencethatoccurredintheregion.There-locatedhypocentersshowthatthe2010ML5.1earthquakesequencewasdistributedinasmallareasurroundingmajorinjectionwellsandclusteredmostlyalongpre-existingfaults.Majorearthquakesshowafocaldepthlessthan5kmwithadominantdepthof~2km,adepthofmajorreservoirsandinjectionwells.Wethusconcludethatthe2010ML5.1earthquakesequencemighthavebeeninducedbythedeepwellinjectionofunwantedwateratadepth~3kmintheRongchanggasfield.