TectonophysicsPub Date : 2024-07-06DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2024.230415
{"title":"Deep crustal fluids and their relation to cutoff depths of crustal earthquakes in the North Ibaraki area of northeastern Japan inferred from reflected S-waves","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.tecto.2024.230415","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tecto.2024.230415","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Crustal fluids play an essential role in the activity of crustal earthquakes. The north Ibaraki area in northeastern Japan has shown intense crustal seismicity after the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake. In this area, it is discussed that crustal fluids are supplied from the deep part of the Earth's crust and contribute to the genesis of these crustal earthquakes. To investigate the distribution of crustal fluids in this area, we focused on reflected S-waves, which are highly sensitive to the presence of crustal fluids. We developed an approach based on the Markov chain Monte Carlo method to precisely and quantitatively estimate the location of the crustal reflector and its geometry. The obtained results showed that the crustal reflector was located at depths of 15–25 km and dipped shallowly to the northwest. The crustal reflector was positioned above the region characterized by low seismic wave velocity and electrical resistivity anomalies in the lower crust, suggesting that the crustal reflector is the uppermost boundary of a fluid-rich zone. The distribution of the fluid-rich zone closely corresponded to the cutoff depths of crustal earthquakes. This fluid-rich zone was likely the source of the fluid that enhanced seismicity in the shallow part of the crust in the target area. In contrast, the fluid-rich zone itself may have suppressed the genesis of crustal earthquakes. We hypothesized that hydrothermal fluids might affect the shallowing of these cutoff depths. If the hydrothermal fluid was contained in the fluid-rich zone, it could induce a shallow brittle-ductile transition by increasing the temperature of the surrounding rocks.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":22257,"journal":{"name":"Tectonophysics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141702898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
TectonophysicsPub Date : 2024-07-06DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2024.230413
Harold Buitrago , Florian Neumann , Juan Contreras , Carlos A. Vargas
{"title":"The thermal structure of the Colombian lithosphere: A regional and basin-scale analysis","authors":"Harold Buitrago , Florian Neumann , Juan Contreras , Carlos A. Vargas","doi":"10.1016/j.tecto.2024.230413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2024.230413","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>It is well-established that the thermal state of the lithosphere strongly influences various regional and local geological processes, including crustal deformation, hydrocarbon maturation, hydrogen generation, and geothermal phenomena. Moreover, the thermal structure exhibits high sensitivity to tectonic features, a property of particular significance in Colombia, where three main tectonic plates converge, and lithospheric tearing has been documented. In this contribution, we focus on elucidating the impact of plate architecture on the thermal field in central-eastern Colombia at both shallow and deep levels. To accomplish this, we constructed a series of two-dimensional profiles and derived a numerical solution of the heat equation using the conservative finite difference method. As constraints, we incorporate an inferred distribution of rocks in the deep crust and upper mantle based on global and local lithospheric thickness models. Material parameters for the various rocks, both exposed and inferred, were obtained from the literature. Additionally, we used superficial heat flow estimates and apparent geothermal gradients compiled by the Colombian Geological Survey.</p><p>Our results suggest a significant influence of the lithospheric Caldas tear on the thermal state of Colombia, with the breaking off occurring in the Nazca plate under the Eastern Cordillera range around 5°N. The modeled asthenospheric heat flow remains approximately 25 mWm<sup>−2</sup>, except in the northern Eastern Cordillera range, where the background heat flow increases rapidly to 40 mWm<sup>−2</sup>. Consequently, our model predicts partial melting in the lower crust to the north and a thermally unstable lower crust to the south of the Caldas tear. The material parameters that best fit the surface data suggest the presence of a basement moderately enriched in radioactive elements in the Eastern Llanos basin. After accounting for compaction, we also confirm a strong influence of the tectonic setting on the thermal state of sedimentary basins.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":22257,"journal":{"name":"Tectonophysics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141606978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
TectonophysicsPub Date : 2024-07-06DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2024.230414
Carlos José Araque-Pérez , Teresa Teixidó , Flor de Lis Mancilla , José Morales
{"title":"Reprocessing and interpretation of legacy seismic data using machine learning from the Granada Basin, Spain","authors":"Carlos José Araque-Pérez , Teresa Teixidó , Flor de Lis Mancilla , José Morales","doi":"10.1016/j.tecto.2024.230414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2024.230414","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The Granada Basin (Spain) is a Neogene sedimentary depression with irregular geomorphology and deep depocenters. It is located in the most seismically hazardous part of the Iberian Peninsula with an historically experienced extremely destructive earthquakes, followed by periods of low to moderate seismicity. In 1980s the Chevron Oil Company collected a set of 30 deep seismic reflection sections in this Basin of which only the results on paper are kept. Due to the fact that many of these seismic profiles are currently located in urban areas and the economic cost of carrying out a similar exploration, it was decided to recover these old data and apply a post-stack treatment to improve their quality. The purpose of this study is to show the applied reprocessing flow and, with the new sections, to present a spatial model of the basin. The first stage of recovery and enhacement of seismic sections has consisted in three phases: first, high-resolution scanning of paper copies to TIFF images followed by the transformation of TIFF images to SEG-Y format; second, poststack processing workflow to increasing resolution and lateral coherence of these seismic lines; and third, it has been used a machine learning algorithm, among others, increasing the spatial resolution, signal-to-noise ratio, and coherence of the seismic signals. In addition, basement horizons, as well as three sedimentary sequences, were identified in all seismic sections and interpolated to create a three-dimensional basement model composed by normal faults, horst and grabens related to the seismotectonic behavior of the basin. As an overall assessment, this work is an example of the usefulness of ‘recycling’ legacy seismic data, which nowadays are usually in archived boxes, but at the time required a great economic and acquisition effort.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":22257,"journal":{"name":"Tectonophysics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040195124002166/pdfft?md5=f29846772d559a2bfbd96e04ad38b431&pid=1-s2.0-S0040195124002166-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141582161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
TectonophysicsPub Date : 2024-07-06DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2024.230416
N. Nijholt , W. Simons , R. Riva , J. Efendi , D. Sarsito , T. Broerse
{"title":"Triggered and recurrent slow slip in North Sulawesi, Indonesia","authors":"N. Nijholt , W. Simons , R. Riva , J. Efendi , D. Sarsito , T. Broerse","doi":"10.1016/j.tecto.2024.230416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2024.230416","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Nearby faults interact with each other through the exchange of stress. However, the extent of fault interaction is poorly understood. In particular, interactions may lead to slow-slip activity, resulting in episodes of transient surface motion. Our study concentrates on Northwest Sulawesi (Indonesia), which hosts two fault zones with potential for major earthquakes and tsunamis: the strike-slip Palu-Koro fault and the Minahassa subduction zone. Thanks to a 20-year-long effort in geodetic monitoring, we are able to identify multiple periods during which surface velocities deviate from their interseismic trend. We use a Bayesian methodology with forward predictions of slip on the two fault interfaces to match the observations following the 2018 <span><math><msub><mi>M</mi><mi>w</mi></msub><mn>7.5</mn></math></span> Palu earthquake, and infer that both deep afterslip on the Palu-Koro fault and slow slip on the Minahassa subduction interface have caused the observed transient surface motion. This finding represents the first recording of a slow slip event on the Minahassa subduction interface. We also infer that the subduction interface and the strike-slip fault are likely interacting on a regular basis.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":22257,"journal":{"name":"Tectonophysics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004019512400218X/pdfft?md5=6e5ed9763b7bded64be6ae1706dd91e4&pid=1-s2.0-S004019512400218X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141593234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
TectonophysicsPub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2024.230404
Maria-Laura Tîrlă , Relu-Dumitru Roban , Ioan Munteanu , Virgil Drăgușin , Marius Vlaicu , Ionuț-Cornel Mirea
{"title":"From nappe stacking to strike-slip deformation: Alpine structural overprints refined by cave and karst geology in the Danubian thin-skinned units (Southern Carpathians, Romania)","authors":"Maria-Laura Tîrlă , Relu-Dumitru Roban , Ioan Munteanu , Virgil Drăgușin , Marius Vlaicu , Ionuț-Cornel Mirea","doi":"10.1016/j.tecto.2024.230404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2024.230404","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Caves are ideal environments for preserving quantifiable deformational indicators in orogenic areas, as they are conditioned by regional tectonics. The caves and karst of Isverna, developed in the Barremian-Aptian limestones of the Danubian sedimentary nappes (Southern Carpathians, SW Romania), expose formerly undetected evidence of compressional tectonics, overlapping older structures related to décollement and deformation of the underlying Turonian-Senonian tectonic mélange. The Danubian domain (the distal part of the Moesian Platform) was incorporated into the Carpathian Orogen during the Late Cretaceous subduction of the Ceahlău–Severin Ocean and collision with the continental Dacia mega-unit. Subsequent Eocene–Oligocene orogen–parallel extension led to the development of a metamorphic core complex and detachment faults, constructing a complicated arcuate fault system around the Moesian Platform during the Late Miocene strike-slip deformation. The integrated analysis of structural, kinematic, and geomorphological data indicates a connection between the strike-slip deformation and the subsequent shortening, exhumation and surface exposure of Cerna Nappe within the Isverna shear zone. Four main evolutionary stages of the Danubian thin-skinned units in the central Mehedinți Mountains were distinguished from cave and karst geology, and illustrated in a detailed 3D model: i) Initial décollement and mélange deformation during the Alpine nappe stacking; ii) Extensional décollement toward SE; iii) Dextral shearing and WNW-ESE contraction; iv) Karstification and cave development. Most structural and kinematic markers recorded within the limestones of the Cerna Nappe date from stage (iii), whereas older structures were better preserved in the tectonic mélange of the Lainici Nappe. The resulting model could be further integrated into the polyphase tectonic evolution of the Southern Carpathians and their relation with the Moesian Platform. This study demonstrates the utility of caves and karst for constraining the chronology of tectonic deformations in complex structural systems and for reconstructing more refined conceptual 3D models.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":22257,"journal":{"name":"Tectonophysics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040195124002063/pdfft?md5=a3ef8c61bc075d0965678d999358324e&pid=1-s2.0-S0040195124002063-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141541148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
TectonophysicsPub Date : 2024-06-28DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2024.230403
Naeim Mousavi, Mohammad Tatar
{"title":"Predicting heat flow in the Iranian plateau and surrounding areas based on machine learning approach","authors":"Naeim Mousavi, Mohammad Tatar","doi":"10.1016/j.tecto.2024.230403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2024.230403","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>While Surface Heat Flow (HF) is an important constraint unveiling the Earth interior's thermal structure, estimates over the Iranian plateau are sparse. In the presence of sparse estimates, machine learning provides a statistical-based prediction of HF based on a supervised predictor trained in the far-field regions. Here, we imply the machine learning technique of Gradient Boosting Regression Tree (GBRT) which has been proved to be efficient for predicting HF projecting complexities and nonlinearities of input features into predicted HF. Our results provide a robust map of HF with resolution of one degree and uncertainty of up to ±6 mW/m<sup>2</sup> over Iran and surrounding regions. The predicted HF has an average value and minimum standard deviation of 59 and 10 mW/m<sup>2</sup>, respectively. The quality of the algorithm performance is 16%, indicated by normalized Root-Mean-Square Error (RMSE), and linear correlation of predicted HF with validation set is 97%. Total number of trees considerably prevents overfitting which is believed to be solely controllable by shrinkage factor, maximum tree depth and cross-validation scheme. The three most important features, having the highest influence on the output HF, are thermal Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary (LAB), distance to volcanoes and distance to trenches. The extreme importance of LAB in HF prediction of Iran indicates that the lithospheric thermal structure is significantly controlled by lithospheric thickness in the Iranian plateau. Selection of petrologically and seismologically consistent LAB guarantees the precision of the predicted HF. Our results imply that high HF in central Iran is in agreement with extensive magmatism since the Paleozoic. Additionally, the high HF in Zagros keel (originally Proterozoic as the Zagros keel appears to be the Arabian plate front) indicates the tectonically active system of the Arabia-Eurasia collision zone, high likely, in the form of lithospheric mantle deformation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":22257,"journal":{"name":"Tectonophysics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141479967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
TectonophysicsPub Date : 2024-06-27DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2024.230399
Manuela Durán Oreja , Pablo Calvín , Juan José Villalaín , Puy Ayarza , José R. Martínez Catalán
{"title":"Corrigendum to “Paleomagnetism in the Cambrian Urda-Los Navalucillos Limestone (Montes de Toledo, Spain): Implications for late-Variscan kinematics and oroclinal bending in the Central Iberian Zone” [Tectonophysics 852 (2023) /229781]","authors":"Manuela Durán Oreja , Pablo Calvín , Juan José Villalaín , Puy Ayarza , José R. Martínez Catalán","doi":"10.1016/j.tecto.2024.230399","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tecto.2024.230399","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22257,"journal":{"name":"Tectonophysics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040195124002014/pdfft?md5=2c6d3fa43da409f30d39aebdcc58653c&pid=1-s2.0-S0040195124002014-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141568051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Active shortening and aseismic slip along the Cephalonia Plate Boundary (Paliki Peninsula, Greece): Evidence from InSAR and GNSS data","authors":"Varvara Tsironi , Athanassios Ganas , Sotirios Valkaniotis , Vasiliki Kouskouna , Efthimios Sokos , Ioannis Koukouvelas","doi":"10.1016/j.tecto.2024.230400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2024.230400","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We present a comprehensive analysis of geodetic data, including InSAR and GNSS, to assess the interseismic deformation of the Paliki peninsula in western Cephalonia, Greece. The region is prone to frequent earthquakes, due to its proximity to the Cephalonia Transform Fault (CTF), a 140 km long dextral strike-slip fault (striking NNE-SSW) that accommodates the relative motion between the Apulian and Aegean lithospheric plates. Our analysis covers the period from 2016 to 2022 and leverages LiCSBAS, an open-source package, for InSAR time series analysis with the N-SBAS method. The results of the InSAR analysis demonstrate deformation rates between 2 and 5 mm/yr in the line-of-sight (LOS) direction of the satellite. We constructed <em>E</em>-W velocity profiles that provided a velocity gradient terminating against the outcropping trace of the seismic fault of the 3 February 2014 earthquake (M6.1) near Atheras. This geodetic evidence indicates a ∼ 1 mm/yr minimum aseismic slip (fault creep) motion along the February 2014 seismic fault, during 2016–2022. Positive LOS values in both satellite imaging geometries show that the coastal town of Lixouri experiences uplift of 1 mm/yr. East-West velocity cross-sections across western Cephalonia including Gulf of Argostoli reveal several velocity discontinuities, possibly bounded by active faults and/or landslides. The <em>E</em>-W shortening rate between Lixouri and Argostoli areas amounts to 1.5 mm/yr corresponding to −187 ns/yr (nanostrain/yr) of tectonic strain. Our results suggest a complex deformation pattern on the Paliki peninsula with strain accumulation along strike-slip and reverse-slip faults. We also inverted GNSS velocities from Italy and Greece, across the Cephalonia segment of CTF (assuming elastic half-space) and obtained a locking depth of 13 km, and a slip rate of 17.3 ± 0.8 mm/yr.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":22257,"journal":{"name":"Tectonophysics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141541146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
TectonophysicsPub Date : 2024-06-27DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2024.230402
Vinh Long Ha , Hsin-Hua Huang , Bor-Shouh Huang , Le Minh Nguyen , Van Duong Nguyen , Thi Giang Ha , Quang Khoi Le , Quoc Van Dinh , Tu Son Le , Tien Hung Nguyen , Cong Nghia Nguyen , Kyle Ken Smith , Thuy Thanh Pham
{"title":"Geotectonic architecture beneath Northern Vietnam revealed by local earthquake tomography combining seismic data from multiple networks","authors":"Vinh Long Ha , Hsin-Hua Huang , Bor-Shouh Huang , Le Minh Nguyen , Van Duong Nguyen , Thi Giang Ha , Quang Khoi Le , Quoc Van Dinh , Tu Son Le , Tien Hung Nguyen , Cong Nghia Nguyen , Kyle Ken Smith , Thuy Thanh Pham","doi":"10.1016/j.tecto.2024.230402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2024.230402","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Extrusion tectonics driven by the collision of Indian-Eurasian continents and the relative motion among microcontinents (e.g. South China, Simao-Indochina blocks) has led to multi-phase and complex geological activity and structures in Northern Vietnam. While extensively studied, its detailed crustal architecture in association with multiple large-scale shear zones and plate boundaries remains unclear and is key to resolving long-lasting tectonic debates. This study constructs the first 3-D regional S-wave velocity (Vs) model with consistent P-wave velocity (Vp) and Vp/Vs ratio models by jointly using the crustal and head waves (e.g. Pg/Sg and Pn/Sn phases) from an augmented earthquake catalog combining the Vietnam National Earthquake Catalog (VNCAT) and the data from multiple adjacent seismic networks. The quality of phase picking and earthquake location incorporating seismic data from various sources are carefully examined and collected for the tomographic inversion. We use a stepwise joint inversion scheme to subsequently constrain the earthquake location, 1-D and 3-D velocity models. The output models suggest that the Song Ma suture represents a better candidate for the Indochina-South China boundary rather than the Red River Shear Zone. The latter seems to act as a crustal structure while the former and the Dien Bien Phu Fault are likely lithospheric ones. Several other geologic features such as the Tu Le volcanic basin, the Song Hong basin, and the Day Nui Con Voi metamorphic complex are also clearly depicted and discussed in the model. This new set of the Vp, Vs, and Vp/Vs models could further contribute to better assessment to seismic hazards in the northern Vietnam.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":22257,"journal":{"name":"Tectonophysics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141541147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
TectonophysicsPub Date : 2024-06-26DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2024.230401
Ye Zhu , Wenjie Fan , Yingfeng Ji , Weiling Zhu , Lili Feng , Rui Qu
{"title":"Strong controlling effect of stress evolution on the 2022 Ms5.0 Honghe earthquake sequence","authors":"Ye Zhu , Wenjie Fan , Yingfeng Ji , Weiling Zhu , Lili Feng , Rui Qu","doi":"10.1016/j.tecto.2024.230401","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tecto.2024.230401","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Understanding stress evolution patterns as a response to earthquake ruptures at geologically complex tectonic faults is vital because of the role of fault geometry as a source for the stress evolutionary constraints. Here, we analyze the 2022 Ms5.0 Honghe earthquake sequence and calculate the tectonic stress distribution of the two Ms. ≥ 3.5 earthquakes in this sequence. Results indicate that the focal mechanism type of the sequence obtained corresponds to strike-slip motion with an ESE-oriented strike and a steeply dipping NE-oriented nodal plane. The focal region is subjected to NNW-oriented horizontal compression and ENE-oriented horizontal tension. We find that the adjacent Ailaoshan fault constituted the major seismogenic fault of the mainshock and the regional stress field exerted a strong controlling effect on the associated postseismic events. Our results suggest that the stabilization of tectonic faults may help to enhance the effects of stress accumulation on the occurrence of medium-to-strong earthquakes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":22257,"journal":{"name":"Tectonophysics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141463900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}