Shallow earthquakes in a viscoelastic shear zone with depth-dependent friction and rheology     

Michele Dragoni  Maurizio Bonafede  Enzo Boschi 《Geophysical Journal International》1986,86(2):617-633

Summary. Most crustal earthquakes of the world are observed to occur within a seismogenic layer which extends from the Earth's surface to a depth of a few tens of kilometres at most. A model is proposed in which the shear zone along a transcurrent plate margin is represented as a viscoelastic medium with depth-dependent power-law rheology. A frictional resistance linearly increasing with depth is assumed on a vertical transcurrent fault within the shear zone. Such a model is able to reproduce a continuous transition from the brittle behaviour of the upper crust to the ductile behaviour at depth. Assuming that the shear zone is subjected to a constant strain rate from the opposite motions of the two adjacent plates, it is found that there exists a maximum depth H below which tectonic stress can never reach the frictional threshold: this may be identified as the maximum depth of earthquake nucleation. The value of H is consistent with observations for plausible values of the model parameters. The stress evolution in the shear zone is calculated in the linear approximation of the constitutive equation. A change in rigidity with depth, which is also introduced in the model, may reproduce the high vertical gradient of shear stress, which has been measured across the San Andreas fault, and the fact that most earthquakes are nucleated at some depth in the seismogenic layer. A crack which drops the ambient stress to the dynamic frictional level is then introduced in the model. To this aim, a crack solution is employed without a stress singularity at its edges, which is compatible with a frictional stress threshold criterion for fracture. A constraint on the vertical friction gradient is obtained if such cracks are assumed to be entirely confined within the seismogenic layer.  相似文献   

A Linear Intensity Model to Investigate the Causal Relation Between Calabrian and North-Aegean Earthquake Sequences     

Giuseppe De  Natale  Fabio Musmeci†  Aldo Zollo 《Geophysical Journal International》1988,95(2):285-293

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Use of Geostatistics For Accurate Mapping of Earthquake Ground Motion     

James R. Carr  Charles E. Glass 《Geophysical Journal International》1989,97(1):31-40

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Seismotectonics and the earthquake frequency–magnitude distribution in the Aegean area     

Ian G. Main  Paul W. Burton 《Geophysical Journal International》1989,98(3):575-586

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Single-station decomposition of seismograms for subevent time histories     

Massimo Di  Bona John Boatwright 《Geophysical Journal International》1991,105(1):103-117

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Fault plane solutions of earthquakes and active tectonics of the Tibetan Plateau and its margins   总被引：18，自引：0，他引：18  

Peter Molnar  Hélène Lyon-Caent 《Geophysical Journal International》1989,99(1):123-154

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Centrifuge modeling of PGD response of buried pipe   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

MichaelO＇Rourke VikramGadicherla TarekAbdoun 《地震工程与工程振动(英文版)》2005,4(1):69-73

A new centrifuge based method for determining the response of continuous buried pipe to PGD is presented. The physical characteristics of the RPI‘s 100 g-ton geotechnical centrifuge and the current lifeline experiment split-box are described: The split-box contains the model pipeline and surrounding soil and is manufactured such that half can be offset, in flight, simulating PGD. In addition, governing similitude relations which allow one to determine the physical characteristics, (diameter, wall thickness and material modulus of elasticity) of the model pipeline are presented. Finally, recorded strains induced in two buried pipes with prototype diameters of 0.63 m and 0.95 m (24 and 36 inch) subject to 0.6 and 2.0 meters (2 and 6 feet) of full scale fault offsets and presented and compared to corresponding FE results.  相似文献   

The seismic activity in Syria and Palestine during the middle of the 8th century; an amalgamation of historical earthquakes     

N.?N.?AmbraseysEmail author 《Journal of Seismology》2005,9(1):115-125

Some historical earthquakes are distinct owing to the geographical distance of the places affected. It is less clear, however, when more than one earthquake is amalgamated into a single event and their combined effects are attributed to a major event. In order to avoid gross overestimation of the size of historical earthquakes the separation and identification of the constituent earthquakes is an important consideration. As an example we show how the tendency of early and modern writers to amalgamate or duplicate earthquakes in Syria and Palestine can lead to the creation of major earthquakes, with serious consequences for the assessment of the seismic hazard in the region.  相似文献   

GPS观测研究青藏东北缘的水平变形特征   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

张正涛  张永志 《测绘与空间地理信息》2005,28(3):6-8

推导了利用位移场计算主应变、面膨胀、最大剪应变的公式,通过2次重复GPS观测结果,计算了新青藏高原东北缘在1999～2001年间的水平主应变、面膨胀、最大剪应变等水平变形特征量的分布,并分析了在观测后发生的德令哈6．6级地震活动与变形场特征量之间的分布关系。采用力学理论对该地区的地质构造运动、局部形变特征与地震活动的关系进行了讨论。得出了一些有意义的结论和认识。  相似文献   

2019年5月18日吉林松原宁江M_S 5.1地震总结     

盘晓东  刘俊清  贾若  康建红  曹戎机  唐春呈 《地震地磁观测与研究》2021,42(2):147-148

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