迁移的震动照亮了发生地震的圣安德烈亚斯断层下面的复杂变形
1US Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Road, MS 977, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA. dshelly@usgs.gov
Nature
|February 5, 2010
概括
构造震动揭示了深处的圣安德烈亚斯断层仍然活跃和结构化到地.
科学领域:
- 地质物理学 地质物理学
- 地震学 地震学
- 板块构造学是一种板块构造学.
背景情况:
- 圣安德烈亚斯断层的深层结构和变形仍然不太清楚.
- 构造学震动为深层断层行为提供了新的见解.
研究的目的:
- 调查圣安德烈亚斯深层断层的物理特征和变形.
- 为了分析加利福尼亚州帕克菲尔德附近的构造震动.
主要方法:
- 对2001年至2008年连续地震数据的分析.
- 标识和分解构造震信号.
- 基于波形特征的震动活动的区分.
主要成果:
- 沿断层观察到复杂的震动模式和几乎连续的迁移.
- 震发作传播在20公里以每小时15-80公里的速度.
- 地震后的震动变化表明异质断层特性和应力衰变.
结论:
- 圣安德烈亚斯断层是一个局部的,贯穿到地底部的结构.
- 震荡的复发表明了监测深层断层变形的可能性.
- 深层断层变形可能会不稳定地负载较浅的地震产生的区域.
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