The medium-short period tilt deformation phases character before the Zhangbei M S=6.2 earthquake and its experimental interpretation

We discussed the linear and nonlinear character of deformation anomaly before the January 10, 1998 Zhangbei earthquake based on the quantitative analysis by using the tilt observation data. And generalized the three phases character of tilt deformation. (1) Before the earthquake in the scale of one year, EW tilt keeps relative stationary on the block of the northern part of Yanshan Mountain; the tilt vector recurs around a point near the epicenter; and the abrupt change appears before the imminent earthquake. (2) At a geodesic point, tilts discrete level in two directions have a synchronous property with a decline tendency (that is an entropy reduction) in two years before the earthquake. (3) The anomaly intensity AF value at all geodesic points on the same crustal block appear high value anomaly at least two times within 3 years before the earthquake. Using the simulation experimental results of rock rupture, we interpreted the phenomena of tilt deformation relative stationary or other kinds of stationary (process of entropy reduction), of recurrence of tilt deformation vector, of two times AF high values, and even the earthquake in groups, etc. This study was sponsored by the key project of Ninth-Five Plan from China Seismological Bureau and supported by the State Natural Science Foundation of China (197066).