ESTIMATING THE WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE PROCESS USING NEAR FIELD STRONG MOTION RECORDS AND COSEISMIC DISPLACEMENTS |
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| Authors: | YIN De-yu LIU Qi-fang LIU Chang JI Xin-yang |
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| Institution: | 1. Institute of Engineering Mechanics, China Earthquake Administration;Key Laboratory of Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration of China Earthquake Administration, Harbin 150080, China;
2. Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Huai'an 223001, China |
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| Abstract: | Based on the extensive near field broadband strong-motion records with uniform azimuthal coverage and coseismic displacements, the rupture process of 2008 Wenchuan earthquake is inversed by the non-negative least square method and multiple-time window technique. The possible rupture sequence among southern Beichuan Fault, Pengguan Fault and Xiaoyudong Fault and the initial rupture time of high dip angle part of southern Beichuan Fault are analyzed from kinetic aspects, which have been seldom focused on. The results indicate that:(1) The near field waveform fitting residuals and the coseismic displacements show that only a bilateral rupture occurs on the intersection between the southern Beichuan Fault and Xiaoyudong Fault can the synthetic records of the stations located near the southwestern end of the Beichuan Fault conform to the observed ones, and meanwhile, the Pengguan fault cannot generate large slips on its southwestern part. The possible rupture sequence is that the earthquake started at the low dip angle part of Beichuan Fault and propagates to the Pengguan Fault in the shallow area, the Xiaoyudong Fault is triggered by the Pengguan Fault, and then producing bilateral rupture on the high dip angle part of Beichuan Fault at the intersection with the Xiaoyudong Fault. (2) Through analysis of the synthetic second packet records of stations at the southwest area of the fault, we obtain the initial rupture time on the high dip angle part of Beichuan Fault may have a 8s stagnation. In terms of timing, there may be rupture sequence between the southern Beichuan Fault and Pengguan Fault which are parallel to each other. The rupture of the southern shallow part of Beichuan Fault with high dip angle may lag behind the Pengguan Fault. At the same time, there may be a multipoint rupture in the southern section of the Beichuan Fault. (3) There is a good correspondence between the area on the fault with larger slip rate and the surrounding stations with larger PGV. In areas where slip rate on the fault plane is large, the stations tend to have larger peak ground velocities. |
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| Keywords: | Wenchuan earthquake near field strong-motion records coseismic displacements Xiaoyudong Fault rupture sequence |
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