Pattern characteristics of foreshock sequences

被引：16

作者：

Chen, Y ^{[1
]}

Liu, J

Ge, HK

机构：

[1] Acad Sinica, Inst Geophys, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China

[2] China Seismol Bur, Ctr Anal & Predict, Beijing 100036, Peoples R China

[3] Univ Petr, Dept Petr Engn, Shandong 257062, Peoples R China

来源：

PURE AND APPLIED GEOPHYSICS | 1999年 / 155卷 / 2-4期

关键词：

foreshock sequence; seismic pattern; consistency of focal mechanism;

D O I：

10.1007/s000240050271

中图分类号：

P3 [地球物理学]; P59 [地球化学];

学科分类号：

0708 ; 070902 ;

摘要：

Earthquake clusterings in both space and time have various forms, in particular, two typical examples are the foreshock sequences and earthquake swarms. Based on the analysis of 8 foreshock sequences in mainland China during 1966-1996, this study concentrates on the pattern characteristics of foreshock sequences. Thr following pattern characteristics of foreshock sequences have been found: (1) the epicenters of foreshock sequences were densely concentrated in space; (2) the focal mechanisms of foreshocks were similar to that of the main shock. Such consistency of focal mechanisms with main shocks did not exist in aftershock series as well as in several earthquake swarms: (3) we found no case in mainland China during the past thirty years that a main shock is preceded by an earthquake clustering with inconsistent focal mechanisms. Finally, we found 5% of the main shocks in mainland China are preceded by foreshock sequences.

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页码：395 / 408

页数：14