Evidence for right-lateral strike-slip environment in the Kutch basin of northwestern India from moment tensor inversion studies |
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| Institution: | 1. China Earthquake Networks Center, Beijing 100045, China;2. Earthquake Administration of Sichuan Province, Chengdu 610041, China;3. State Key Laboratory of Geohazard Prevention and Geoenvironment Protection, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu 610059, China;1. School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China;2. Key Laboratory of Orogenic Belt and Crustal Evolution, Ministry of Education, Beijing 100871, China;3. Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate (ENSI), 5200 Brugg, Switzerland;4. Geological Society of China, Beijing 100037, China |
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| Abstract: | The Kutch region located in northwestern part of India is an ancient rift basin that was active until Cretaceous period. The region falls close to the India–Arabia and the India–Eurasia plate boundaries and has experienced devastating earthquakes in the past, namely the 1819 Allah Bund earthquake, the 1956 Anjar earthquake and the 2001 Bhuj earthquake. To understand the tectonics of this region with respect to the adjacent plate boundaries, we invert seismic waveform data of 11 earthquakes in this region recorded by a network of the Institute of Seismological Research (ISR) during 2007–2009. The study yields focal mechanism solutions of reverse fault and strike-slip type mechanism. The inferred fault planes correlate well with the local trends of the known tectonic faults while the principal stress directions derived from stress inversion based on a linearized least squares approach, trend agreeably with the ambient stress field directions. A consistently right-lateral sense of shear is found on all the local faults as derived from each of the matching planes of the focal mechanism solutions computed in the present study. It is inferred that in the Kutch region a right-lateral strike-slip environment prevails along predominantly EW to NW-SE oriented deep-seated pre-existing faults in an otherwise compressive stress regime. This, in conjunction with the left-lateral movements along the Girnar mountain in southern Saurashtra, inferred from previous studies, indicates a westward escape of the Kutch–Saurashtra block as a consequence of the northward collision of the Indian plate with respect to the Eurasian landmass. |
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