scholarly journals Coseismic Deformation and Speculative Seismogenic Fault of the 2017 MS 6.6 Jinghe Earthquake, China, Derived From Sentinel-1 Data

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Feng ◽  
Zechao Bai ◽  
Jinwei Ren ◽  
Shuaitang Huang ◽  
Lin Zhu
Keyword(s):  
European Space Agency ◽  
Image Data ◽  
Junggar Basin ◽  
Deformation Field ◽  
Slip Distribution ◽  
Coseismic Deformation ◽  
Dislocation Model ◽  
Seismogenic Fault ◽  
Geological Investigation ◽  
Maximum Deformation

A MS 6.6 earthquake struck Jinghe County in Bortala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on August 9, 2017. The earthquake occurred near the eastern part of the Kusongmuxieke Piedmont Fault (KPF) in the southwest of Junggar Basin. Using two pairs of coseismic SAR image data from the ascending and descending tracks from Sentinel-1 (European Space Agency), we processed the interferograms to obtain the coseismic deformation field. We calculate the fault slip distribution of the earthquake based on the elastic half-space rectangular dislocation model with the available location, geometry from seismic data and the coseismic deformation data. The results show that the earthquake deformation field has the typical characteristics of thrust faulting. The uplift deformation field is about 28 km long and 20 km wide. The maximum displacements of InSAR line-of-sight to the ascending and descending tracks are 49 and 68 mm, respectively. The main slip is concentrated at the depth of 10–20 km. The inverted seismic moment is equivalent to a moment magnitude MW 6.3. This result is very similar to the slip distribution from the seismological inversion. The maximum deformation area and the distribution of aftershocks are both on the west side of the mainshock. They mutually confirm the characteristics of a unilateral rupture. According to stress triggering theory, the aftershocks within 1 month after the mainshock in the layer 10–14 km deep may have been triggered by the mainshock, and the transferred stress increases the seismic risk of the eastern section of the KPF fault. After more than 1 year, a MS 5.4 earthquake occurred to the southwest of the MS 6.6 Jinghe earthquake. Beacause the stress drop change (<0.01 MPa) is too small for the MS 5.4 earthquake to have been directly triggered. Based on the analysis of multisource data and the detailed geological investigation, the thrust Jinghenan fault which north of Kusongmuxieke Piedmont fault is inferred to be the seismogenic fault of the MS 6.6 Jinghe earthquake.

scholarly journals Source model for the Mw 6.0 earthquake in Jiashi, China on 19 January 2020 from Sentinel-1A InSAR data

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pengfei Yu ◽  
Xuejun Qiao ◽  
Wei Xiong ◽  
Wei Chen ◽  
Zhaosheng Nie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
European Space Agency ◽  
Source Model ◽  
Descent Method ◽  
Steepest Descent Method ◽  
Coseismic Deformation ◽  
Seismogenic Fault ◽  
Coulomb Stress Changes ◽  
Rupture Area ◽  
Space Agency ◽  
Stress Changes

Abstract On January 19, 2020, an Mw 6.0 earthquake occurred in Jiashi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China. The epicenter was located at the basin-mountain boundary between the southern Tian Shan and the Tarim Basin. Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) is used to obtain the coseismic deformation field from both ascending and descending Sentinel-1A satellite images of the European Space Agency. The results showed that the coseismic deformation is distributed between the Kalping fault and the Ozgertaou fault. The earthquake produced significant deformation over an area of approximately 40 km by 30 km. The maximum and minimal displacements along the line of sight (LOS) are 5.3 cm and -4.2 cm for the ascending interferogram and are 7.2 cm and -3.0 cm for the descending interferogram, respectively. The fault geometry from the Multi peak Particle Swarm Optimization computation indicates that the seismogenic fault is a shallow low-dipping planar fault that is 4.58 km depth underground. The finite slip model inverted by the Steepest Descent Method implies that the rupture is dominated by a thrust fault. The slips are concentrated in a depth of 5 ~ 7 km with a maximum slip of 0.29 m. The estimated total seismic moment is 1.688×1018 Nm, corresponding to a magnitude of Mw 6.1. The seismogenic fault is the Kalping fault which has a listric structure. The coseismic deformation only occurred on the décollement layer and did not involve the ramp segment. The coseismic Coulomb stress changes have enhanced the stress on the deep margin of the Jiashi earthquake rupture area, indicating that there is still the possibility of strong earthquakes in this region in the future.

scholarly journals Source model for the Mw 6.0 earthquake in Jiashi, China on 19 January 2020 from Sentinel-1A InSAR data

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pengfei Yu ◽  
Xuejun Qiao ◽  
Wei Xiong ◽  
Wei Chen ◽  
Zhaosheng Nie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
European Space Agency ◽  
Source Model ◽  
Descent Method ◽  
Steepest Descent Method ◽  
Coseismic Deformation ◽  
Seismogenic Fault ◽  
Coulomb Stress Changes ◽  
Rupture Area ◽  
Space Agency ◽  
Stress Changes

Abstract On January 19, 2020, an Mw 6.0 earthquake occurred in Jiashi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China. The epicenter was located at the basin-mountain boundary between the southern Tian Shan and the Tarim Basin. Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) is used to obtain the coseismic deformation field from both ascending and descending Sentinel-1A satellite images of the European Space Agency. The results showed that the coseismic deformation is distributed between the Kalping fault and the Ozgertaou fault. The earthquake produced significant deformation over an area of approximately 40 km by 30 km. The maximum and minimal displacements along the line of sight (LOS) are 5.3 cm and -4.2 cm for the ascending interferogram and are 7.2 cm and -3.0 cm for the descending interferogram, respectively. The fault geometry from the Multi peak Particle Swarm Optimization computation indicates that the seismogenic fault is a shallow low-dipping planar fault that is 4.58 km depth underground. The finite slip model inverted by the Steepest Descent Method implies that the rupture is dominated by a thrust fault. The slips are concentrated in a depth of 5 ~ 7 km with a maximum slip of 0.29 m. The estimated total seismic moment is 1.688×1018 Nm, corresponding to a magnitude of Mw 6.1. The seismogenic fault is the Kalping fault which has a listric structure. The coseismic deformation only occurred on the décollement layer and did not involve the ramp segment. The coseismic Coulomb stress changes have enhanced the stress on the deep margin of the Jiashi earthquake rupture area, indicating that there is still the possibility of strong earthquakes in this region in the future.

scholarly journals Source model for the Mw 6.0 earthquake in Jiashi, China on 19 January 2020 from Sentinel-1A InSAR data

2020 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pengfei Yu ◽  
Xuejun Qiao ◽  
Wei Xiong ◽  
Wei Chen ◽  
Zhaosheng Nie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
European Space Agency ◽  
Source Model ◽  
Descent Method ◽  
Steepest Descent Method ◽  
Coseismic Deformation ◽  
Seismogenic Fault ◽  
Coulomb Stress Changes ◽  
Rupture Area ◽  
Space Agency ◽  
Stress Changes

Abstract On January 19, 2020, an Mw 6.0 earthquake occurred in Jiashi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China. The epicenter was located at the basin-mountain boundary between the southern Tian Shan and the Tarim Basin. Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) is used to obtain the coseismic deformation field from both ascending and descending Sentinel-1A satellite images of the European Space Agency. The results showed that the coseismic deformation is distributed between the Kalping fault and the Ozgertaou fault. The earthquake produced significant deformation over an area of approximately 40 km by 30 km. The maximum and minimal displacements along the line of sight (LOS) are 5.3 cm and − 4.2 cm for the ascending interferogram and are 7.2 cm and − 3.0 cm for the descending interferogram, respectively. The fault geometry from the Multi peak Particle Swarm Optimization computation indicates that the seismogenic fault is a shallow low-dipping planar fault that is 4.58 km depth underground. The finite slip model inverted by the Steepest Descent Method implies that the rupture is dominated by a thrust fault. The slips are concentrated in a depth of 5–7 km with a maximum slip of 0.29 m. The estimated total seismic moment is 1.688 × 1018 Nm, corresponding to a magnitude of Mw 6.1. The seismogenic fault is the Kalping fault which has a listric structure. The coseismic deformation only occurred on the décollement layer and did not involve the ramp segment. The coseismic Coulomb stress changes have enhanced the stress on the deep margin of the Jiashi earthquake rupture area, indicating that there is still the possibility of strong earthquakes in this region in the future.

scholarly journals Coseismic deformation field derived from Sentinel-1A data and slip inversion of the 2015 Chile Mw8.3 earthquake

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronghu Zuo ◽  
Chunyan Qu ◽  
XinJian Shan ◽  
Yingfeng Zhang ◽  
Guohong Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Surface Deformation ◽  
Joint Inversion ◽  
Fault Slip ◽  
Deformation Field ◽  
Seismogenic Zone ◽  
Coseismic Deformation ◽  
Dislocation Model ◽  
Coulomb Stress ◽  
Coseismic Slip ◽  
Single Plane

Abstract. We obtain the coseismic surface deformation fields caused by the Chile Mw8.3 earthquake on 16 September 2015 through analyzing Sentinel-1A/IW InSAR data from ascending and descending tracks. The results show that the main deformation field looks like a half circle convex to east with maximum coseismic displacement of about 1.33 m in descending LOS direction, 1.32 m in ascending LOS direction. Based on an elastic dislocation model in a homogeneous elastic half space, we construct a small-dip single plane fault model and invert the coseismic fault slip using ascending and descending Sentinel-1A/IW data separately and jointly. The results show that the patterns of the main slip region are similar in all datasets, but the scale of slip from ascending inversion is relatively smaller. Joint inversion can display comprehensive fault slip. The seismic moment magnitude from the joint inversion is Mw8.25, the rupture length along strike is about 340 km with a maximum slip of 8.16 m near the trench located at –31.04 N, –72.49 E, and the coseismic slip mainly concentrates at shallow depth above the hypocenter with a symmetry shape. The depth where coseismic slip is near zero appears to a depth of 50 km, quantitatively indicating the down-dip limit of the seismogenic zone. From the calculated coseismic Coulomb stress change, we find aftershocks locations correlate well with the areas having increased Coulomb stress and most areas with increased Coulomb stress appeared beneath the main shock fault plane.

scholarly journals Fault Slip Model of the 2018 Mw 6.6 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi, Japan, Earthquake Estimated from Satellite Radar and GPS Measurements

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (14) ◽  
pp. 1667 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zelong Guo ◽  
Yangmao Wen ◽  
Guangyu Xu ◽  
Shuai Wang ◽  
Xiaohang Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Source Parameters ◽  
Fault Slip ◽  
Slip Distribution ◽  
Coseismic Deformation ◽  
Gps Data ◽  
Nonlinear Inversion ◽  
Slip Model ◽  
Seismogenic Fault ◽  
Geometry Model ◽  
Fault Slip Distribution

In this study, Sentinel-1 and Advanced Land Observation Satellite-2 (ALOS-2) interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) and global positioning system (GPS) data were used to jointly determine the source parameters and fault slip distribution of the Mw 6.6 Hokkaido eastern Iburi, Japan, earthquake that occurred on 5 September 2018. The coseismic deformation map obtained from the ascending and descending Sentinel-1 and ALOS-2 InSAR data and GPS data is consistent with a thrust faulting event. A comparison between the InSAR-observed and GPS-projected line-of-sight (LOS) deformation suggests that descending Sentinel-1 track T046D, descending ALOS-2 track P018D, and ascending ALOS-2 track P112A and GPS data can be used to invert for the source parameters. The results of a nonlinear inversion show that the seismogenic fault is a blind NNW-trending (strike angle ~347.2°), east-dipping (dip angle ~79.6°) thrust fault. On the basis of the optimal fault geometry model, the fault slip distribution jointly inverted from the three datasets reveals that a significant slip area extends 30 km along the strike and 25 km in the downdip direction, and the peak slip magnitude can approach 0.53 m at a depth of 15.5 km. The estimated geodetic moment magnitude released by the distributed slip model is 6.16   × 10 18   N · m , equivalent to an event magnitude of Mw 6.50, which is slightly smaller than the estimates of focal mechanism solutions. According to the Coulomb stress change at the surrounding faults, more attention should be paid to potential earthquake disasters in this region in the near future. In consideration of the possibility of multi-fault rupture and complexity of regional geologic framework, the refined distributed slip and seismogenic mechanism of this deep reverse faulting should be investigated with multi-disciplinary (e.g., geodetic, seismic, and geological) data in further studies.

Complex Slip Distribution of the 2021 Mw 7.4 Maduo, China, Earthquake: An Event Occurring on the Slowly Slipping Fault

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rumeng Guo ◽  
Hongfeng Yang ◽  
Yu Li ◽  
Yong Zheng ◽  
Lupeng Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Slip Rate ◽  
Slip Distribution ◽  
Seismic Gap ◽  
Seismogenic Fault ◽  
Coseismic Slip ◽  
Slip Rates ◽  
Kunlun Mountain ◽  
Coulomb Failure ◽  
Main Fault ◽  
Large Earthquakes

Abstract The 21 May 2021 Maduo earthquake occurred on the Kunlun Mountain Pass–Jiangcuo fault (KMPJF), a seismogenic fault with no documented large earthquakes. To probe its kinematics, we first estimate the slip rates of the KMPJF and Tuosuo Lake segment (TLS, ∼75 km north of the KMPJF) of the East Kunlun fault (EKLF) based on the secular Global Positioning System (GPS) data using the Markov chain Monte Carlo method. Our model reveals that the slip rates of the KMPJF and TLS are 1.7 ± 0.8 and 7.1 ± 0.3 mm/yr, respectively. Then, we invert high-resolution GPS and Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar observations to decipher the fault geometry and detailed coseismic slip distribution associated with the Maduo earthquake. The geometry of the KMPFJ significantly varies along strike, composed of five fault subsegments. The most slip is accommodated by two steeply dipping fault segments, with the patch of large sinistral slip concentrated in the shallow depth on a simple straight structure. The released seismic moment is ∼1.5×1020  N·m, equivalent to an Mw 7.39 event, with a peak slip of ∼9.3 m. Combining the average coseismic slip and slip rate of the main fault, an earthquake recurrence period of ∼1250−400+1120  yr is estimated. The Maduo earthquake reminds us to reevaluate the potential of seismic gaps where slip rates are low. Based on our calculated Coulomb failure stress, the Maduo earthquake imposes positive stress on the Maqin–Maqu segment of the EKLF, a long-recognized seismic gap, implying that it may accelerate the occurrence of the next major event in this region.

scholarly journals The 2009 L’Aquila earthquake coseismic rupture: open issues and new insights from 3D finite element inversion of GPS, InSAR and strong motion data

2015 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuela Volpe ◽  
Simone Atzori ◽  
Antonio Piersanti ◽  
Daniele Melini
Keyword(s):  
Finite Element ◽  
Fault Plane ◽  
Numerical Models ◽  
Tectonic Setting ◽  
Strong Motion ◽  
Slip Distribution ◽  
Coseismic Deformation ◽  
L’Aquila Earthquake ◽  
Local Tomography ◽  
2009 L’Aquila Earthquake

<p>We present a Finite Element inverse analysis of the static deformation field for the M<sub>w</sub>= 6.3, 2009 L’Aquila earthquake, in order to infer the rupture slip distribution on the fault plane. An univocal solution for the rupture slip distribution has not been reached yet with negative impact for reliable hazard scenarios in a densely populated area. In this study, Finite Element computed Green’s functions were implemented in a linear joint inversion scheme of geodetic (GPS and InSAR) and seismological (strong motion) coseismic deformation data. In order to fully exploit the informative power of our dense dataset and to honor the complexities of the real Earth, we implemented an optimized source model, represented by a fault plane subdivided in variable size patches, embedded in a high-resolution realistic three-dimensional model of the Apenninic seismo-tectonic setting, accounting for topographic reliefs and rheological heterogeneities deduced from local tomography. We infer that the investigated inversion domain contains two minima configurations in the solution space, i.e. a single- and a double-patch slip distribution, which are almost equivalent, so that the available datasets and numerical models are not able to univocally discriminate between them. Nevertheless our findings suggest that a two high-slip patch pattern is slightly favoured.</p>

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