Slip model of the 2008 Mw 7.9 Wenchuan (China) earthquake derived from co-seismic GPS data

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 62, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 869-874

  Diao, Faqi ^a,b   Xiong, Xiong ^a   Wang, Rongjiang ^c   Zheng, Yong ^a   Hsu, Houtse ^a  

^a Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gps data; Inversion; Slip model; Wenchuan earthquake

Indexed keywords

COSEISMIC PROCESS; DATA INVERSION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; GPS; MODELING; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; SLIP RATE; TELESEISMIC WAVE;

EID: 79952578134     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5047/eps.2009.05.003     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Burchfiel, B. C., L. H. Royden, R. D. van der Hilst, B. H. Hager, Z. Chen, R. W. King, C. Li, J. Lu, H. Yao, and E. Kirby, A geological and geophysical context for the Wenchuan earthquake of 12 May 2008, Sichuan, People's Republic of China, GSA Today, 18, 4-11, 2008.
2. Cakir, Z., J. B. Chablier, R. Armijo, B. Meyer, A. Barka, and G. Peltzer, Coseismic and early post-seismic slip associated with the 1999 Izmit earthquake (Turkey), from SAR interferometry and tectonic field observations, Geophys. J. Int., 155, 93-110, 2003.
3. Hsu, Y. J., N. Bechor, P. Segall, S. B. Yu, L. C. Kuo, and K. F. Ma, Rapid afterslip following the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan Earthquake, Geophys. Res. Lett., 29, 1-4, 2002.
4. Huang, Y., J. P. Wu, T. Z. Zhang, and D. N. Zhang, Relocation of the M 8.0 Wenchuan earthquake and its aftershock sequence, Sci. China Ser. D-Earth Sci., 51, 1307-1311, 2008.
5. w 7.9 eastern Sichuan, China earthquake, http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/ eqinthenews/2008/us2008ryan/finite-fault.php, 2008.
6. Kanamori, H., The energy release in great earthquakes, J. Geophys. Res., 82, 2981-2987, 1977.
7. s 8.0 Wenchuan earthquake co-seismic rupture and its tectonic implications-An out-ofsequence thrusting event with slip partitioned on multiple faults, Acta Geol. Sinica, 82, 1-16,2008 (in Chinese).
8. Miyazaki, S., K. M. Larson, K. Choi, K. Hikima, K. Kazuki, P. Bodin, J. Haase, G. Emore, and A. Yamagiwa, Modeling the rupture process of the 2003 September 25 Tokachi-Oki (Hokkaido) earthquake using 1-Hz GPS data, Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, 1-4, 2004.
9. Mooney, W. D., G. Laske, and T. G. Masters, CRUST 5.1 : A global crustal model at 5° × 5°, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 727-747, 1998.
10. Nishimura, N. and Y. Yagi, Rupture process for May 12, 2008 Sichuan earthquake (preliminary result), http://www.geol.tsukuba.ac.jp/ "nisimura/20080512/, 2008.
11. Segall, P. and J. L. Davis, GPS applications for geodynamics and earthquake studies, Ann. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., 25, 301-336, 1997.
12. s 8.0 earthquake of 2008, Chinese J. Geophys., 51, 1385-1402, 2008 (in Chinese).
13. Wang, R., Y. Xia, H. Grosser, H. U. Wetzel, H. Kaufmann, and J. Zschau, Das 2003 Bam Erdbeben: Präzise Herdparameterbestimmung mit Hilfe der differentiellen Radar-Interferometrie, Zweijahresbericht, GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, 2006.
14. Ward, S. N. and S. Barrientos, An inversion for slip distribution and fault shape from geodetic observations of the 1983, Borah Peak, Idaho, earthquake, J. Geophys. Res., 91, 4909-4919, 1986.
15. Wessel, P. and W. H. F. Smith, Free software helps map and display data, Eos Trans. AGU, 72, 445-446, 1991.
16. Working Group of the "Crustal Motion Observation Network of China" Project, The coseismic displacement field of 2008 Wenchuan earthquake observed by GPS technique, Sei. China Ser. D-Earth Sci., 38, 1195-1206, 2008 (in Chinese).
17. Zhang, P. Z., The recent tectonic deformation, strain distribution and deep dynamic processes in eastern margin of the Tibet plateau, Sci. China Ser. D-Earth Sci., 38, 1041-1056, 2008 (in Chinese).
18. Zhang, P. Z., X. W. Xu, X. Z. Wen, and Y. K. Ran, Slip rates and recurrence intervals of the Longmen Shan active fault zone, and tectonic implications for the mechanism of the May 12 Wenchuan earthquake, 2008, Sichuan, China, Chinese J. Geophys., 51, 1066-1073, 2008 (in Chinese).