Spatial and temporal changes of groundwater level induced by thrust faulting

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 165, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 5-16

  Chia, Yeeping ^a   Chiu, Jessie J ^b   Chiang, Yi Hsuan ^a   Lee, Tsai Ping ^a   Liu, Chen Wuing ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chi Chi earthquake; Coseismic; Groundwater; Postseismic; Preseismic; Thrust fault

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER; CHI-CHI EARTHQUAKE 1999; COSEISMIC PROCESS; FAULTING; GROUNDWATER; POSTSEISMIC PROCESS; WATER LEVEL;

EID: 40849140706     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-007-0293-5     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. ANGELIER, J., LEE, J. C., CHU, H. T., and HU, J. C. (2003), Reconstruction of fault slip of the September 21st, 1999, Taiwan Earthquake in the asphalted surface of a car park, and co-seismic slip partitioning, J. Struct. Geol. 25, 345-350.
2. BAKUN W. H. and LINDH, A. G. (1985), The Parkfield, California Earthquake prediction experiment, Science 229, 619-624.
3. BREDEHOEFT, J. D. (1967), Response of well-aquifer systems to earth tides, J. Geophys. Res. 72, 3075-3087.
4. CHANG C.H., WU, Y.M., SHIN, T.C., and WANG C.Y. (2000), Relocation of the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake in Taiwan, Terrestrial, Atmos. and Ocean. Sci. 11, 581-590.
5. CHIA, Y.P., WANG, Y.S., CHIU, J.J., and LIU, C.W. (2001), Changes of groundwater level due to the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake in the Choshui River alluvial fan in Taiwan, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 91 1062-1068.
6. COOPER, H. H., Jr., BREDEHOEFT, J. D., PAPADOPULOS, I. S., and BENNETT, R. R. (1965), The response of wellaquifer systems to seismic waves, J. Geophys. Res. 70, 3915-3926.
7. GE, S. and STOVER, S. C. (2000), Hydrodynamic response to strike- and dip-slip faulting in a half-space, J. Geophys. Res. 105, 25513-25524.
8. GRECKSCH, G., ROTH, F., and KÜMPEL, H.J. (1999), Co-seismic well-level changes due to the 1992 Roermond earthquake compared to static deformation of half-space solutions, Geophys. J. Int. 138, 470-478.
9. IGARASHI, G. and WAKITA, H. (1991), Tidal responses and earthquake-related changed in the water level of deep wells, J. Geophys. Res. 96, 4269-4278.
10. KAO, H. and CHEN, W.P. (2000), The Chi-Chi earthquake sequence: Active, out-of-sequence thrust faulting in Taiwan, Science 288, 2346-2349.
11. KING, C.-Y., AZUMA, S., IGARASHI, G., OHNO, M., SAITO, H., and WAKITA, H. (1999), Earthquake related waterlevel changes at 16 closely clustered wells in Tono, Central Japan, J. Geophys. Res. 104, 13073-13082.
12. KING, C.-Y., AZUMA, S., OHNO, M., ASAI, Y., HE, P., KITAGAWA, Y., IGARASHI, G., and WAKITA, H. (2000), In search of earthquake precursors in the water-level data of 16 closely clustered wells at Tono, Japan, Geophys. J. Int. 143, 469-477.
13. KISSIN, I.G., BELIKOV, V.M., and ISHANKULIEV, G.A. (1996), Short-term groundwater level variations in a seismic region as an indicator of the geodynamic regime, Tectonophysics 265, 313-326.
14. KOIZUMI, N. and TSUKUDA, E. (1999), Preseismic changes in groundwater level and volumetric strain associated with earthquake swarms off the east coast of the Izu Peninsula, Japan, Geophys. Res. Lett. 26, 3509-3512.
15. KOIZUMI, N., LAI, W.-C., KITAGAWA, Y., and MATSUMOTO, N. (2004), Comment on "Coseismic hydrological changes associated with dislocation of the September 21, 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake, Taiwan" by Min LEE et al., Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L13603, doi: 10.1029/2004GL019897.
16. LAI, W.-C., KOIZUMI, N., MATSUMOTO, N., KITAGAWA, Y., LIN, C.-W., SHIEH, C.-L., and LEE, Y.-P. (2004), Effects of seismic ground motion and geological setting on the coseismic groundwater level changes caused by the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake, Taiwan, Earth Planets Space 56, 873-880.
17. LEE, M., LIU, T.K., MA, K.F., and CHANG, Y.M. (2002), Coseismic hydrological changes with dislocation of the September 21, 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake, Taiwan, Geophys. Res. Lett. 29, doi: 10.1029/2002GL015116.
18. LIU, L.B., ROELOFFS, E., and ZHENG, X.Y. (1989), Seismically-induced water level fluctuations in the Wali well, Beijing, China, J. Geophys. Res. 94, 9453-9462.
19. MONTGOMERY, D. R. and MANGA, M. (2003), Streamflow and water well responses to earthquakes, Science 300, 2047-2049.
20. MUIR-WOOD, R. and KING, G. C. P. (1993), Hydrologic signatures of earthquake strain, J. Geophys. Res. 98, 22035-22068.
21. QUILTY, E.G. and ROELOFFS, E.A. (1997), Water-level changes in response to the 20 December 1994 earthquake near Parkfield, California, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 87, 310-317.
22. ROELOFFS, E.A. (1998), Persistent water level changes in a well near Parkfield, California, due to local and distant earthquake, J. Geophys. Res. 103, 869-889.
23. ROELOFFS, E.A. and Quilty, E. (1997), Water level and strain changes preceding and following the August 4, 1985 Kettleman Hills, California, Earthquake, Pure Appl. Geophys. 149, 21-60.
24. ROJSTACZER, S., WOLF, S., and MICHEL, R. (1995), Permeability enhancement in the shallow crust as a cause of earthquake-induced hydrologic changes, Nature 373, 237-239.
25. SHIN, T.C., KUO, K.W., LEE, W.H.K., TENG, T.L., and TSAI, Y.B. (2000), A preliminary report on the 1999 Chi-Chi (Taiwan) earthquake, Seismol. Res. Lett. 71, 23-29.
26. WAKITA, H. (1975), Water wells as possible indicators of tectonic strain, Science 189, 553-555.
27. WANG, C. Y., CHENG, L. H., CHIN, C. V., and YU, S. B. (2001), Coseismic hydrologic response of an alluvial fan to the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake, Taiwan, Geology 29, 831-834.
28. w = 7.5) earthquake, Taiwan, Geophys. Res. Lett. 30, doi: 10.1029/2003GL017601.
29. w = 7.5) Chi-Chi earthquake, Taiwan, Geofluids 4, 210-220.
30. WANG, H.F. (1997), Effects of deviatoric stress on undrained pore pressure response to fault slip, J. Geophys. Res. 102, 17943-17950.
31. YU, S.B., KUO, L.C., HSU, Y.J., SU, H.H., LIU, C.C., HOU, C.S., LEE, J.F., LAI, T.C., LIU, C.C., LIU, C.L., TSENG, T.F., TSAI, C. S., and SHIN, T.C. (2001), Preseismic deformation and coseismic displacements associated with the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan earthquake, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 91, 995-1012.