盖州震群的重新定位

辽宁省盖州地区自2012年2月2日开始发生了多次4级地震的震群活动。震群位于北东向的金州断裂北端和北东向海城-营口断裂南端,震群序列整体上呈北西向,即盖州震群并不是发生在北东向的金州断裂北端,很可能发生在金州断裂和海城-营口断裂之间的北西西向构造上。为考察此问题,利用2012年以来辽宁台网盖州地区的地震观测报告,采用双差定位的方法,给出这个地区的小震精定位结果,结果显示盖州震群的确沿北西向分布,且有随时间向北西向展布的态势。且震源深度逐渐变浅。分析认为盖州震群是发生在金州断裂和海城-营口断裂之间的北西向断层上。     

1987年8月2日江西寻乌震群的近场强地面运动观测及其震源特征分析

使用DCS-302数字磁带记录地震仪组成的临时性流动台网,得到一批寻乌震群的中、小地震近场加速度记录.经过筛选对其中23次地震进行了精确定位,求得了综合断层面解,并将它与主震机制作了比较.测定了较大地震的峰值加速度及震源参数;对该震群的震源特征进行了分析.结果表明此次寻乌震群的震源破裂过程主要受北西向断裂的控制.     

1987年8月2日江西寻乌震群的近场强地面运动观测及其震源特征分析

使用DCS-302数字磁带记录地震仪组成的临时性流动台网,得到一批寻乌震群的中、小地震近场加速度记录.经过筛选对其中23次地震进行了精确定位,求得了综合断层面解,并将它与主震机制作了比较.测定了较大地震的峰值加速度及震源参数;对该震群的震源特征进行了分析.结果表明此次寻乌震群的震源破裂过程主要受北西向断裂的控制.      

2013年8月河北蔚县小震群遗漏地震检测与发震构造分析

华北地区近年来小震群活动频繁, 在有数字波形记录的中强地震相对缺乏的背景下, 小震群发震构造精细研究可为华北地区地震危险性分析和地震趋势判断提供重要依据. 本文利用匹配滤波技术对2013年8月22—25日河北蔚县小震群遗漏地震事件进行检测, 并通过地震精定位和震源机制求解分析此次震群的发震构造. 计算结果显示, 通过互相关扫描检测到18次被地震台网常规分析遗漏的地震, 约为地震目录给出的13次地震事件的1.38倍. 该震群发震构造有北东向和北西向两组断裂, 震群活动前期以北东向构造活动为主, 后期地震主要发生在北西向构造, 北西向构造在此次震群活动中地震频度和强度均高于北东向构造. 震源机制计算结果显示北西向构造发震机制以正断拉张为主.      

利用重测定的震源深度特征探讨2013年吉林前郭5.8级震群发震因素

利用Pn-Pg震相组合的局部搜索法,采用5种地壳速度模型对2013年吉林前郭5.8级地震震群进行震源深度测定。计算结果显示,5种结果的震源深度的主要分布特征相似。对选取的32个地震震源深度进行重新测定,结果最小为6 km,最大14 km,主要集中在10 km左右,系统深度偏差约1.74 km,震源深度分辨率约1.58km,重定位后地震震中优势分布呈北西向。与当地的沉积层厚度分布对比,这些地震最有可能发生在盆地基底的基岩顶层,而不在油气圈闭的沉积盖层内,并且地震震群分布走向与通榆—长春断裂走向相一致。结合该地区的历史地震活动与构造关系,最后推测这些地震与北西向的通榆—长春断裂构造运动密切相关,而不是油田作业的直接产物。     

2016年10月广东乳源M_L 2.8级震群活动特征

2016年10月7日至26日广东省乳源县发生M_L2.8级震群活动,共记录到地震250次,其中M_L1.0~1.9级166次,M_L2.0~2.9级17次,最大为10月10日的M_L2.8级地震,震源深度8 km。根据乳源震群与南水水库震群活动、波速比、视应力和应力降对比,初步判断此次乳源震群活动在弱挤压应力背景下产生,且为非水库诱发地震,印证了近年来东南沿海地区地震活动由水库区向非水库区转移或扩展的特征,是东南沿海地震带地震活动进一步增强的表现。根据乳源震群沿北西向沟谷展布的特征、主震震源机制解北西向节面的左旋走滑正断性质,结合地质构造背景及现场调查结果,推测从震中区到英德市望埠镇存在走向310°,倾向南西,倾角47°的隐伏断裂,为乳源震群发震构造,此隐伏断裂可能是北东向吴川-四会断裂带的共轭构造,与近年来吴川-四会断裂活动增强有密切关系。     

2013年10月31日吉林前郭M5.8震群研究

2013年10月31日在吉林省前郭县查干花镇先后发生5.5级和5.0级地震,之后于2013年11月22日、23日又在原地分别发生了5.3级和5.8级、5.0级地震,形成震群活动。震群地震发生在东北断块区松辽断陷带中央坳陷区内,极震区长轴呈北东向展布。本次震群序列共记录1 356次地震,包括5次5级以上地震,记录到完整的地震序列。余震呈NW向密集条带状分布,震群震源断错性质为带有走滑分量的逆冲型错动,综合分析认为,前郭震群地震可能受北东向扶余—肇东断裂和北西向查干泡—道字井断裂控制,其破裂面为北西向,发震构造可能是震源区基底深部一条NW向隐伏逆冲断裂（查干泡—道字井断裂）。前郭5.8级震群在震前出现一部分测震学异常,而前兆异常更丰富,表现为由外围向震中区逐渐逼近,地震发生后前兆异常又表现出由震中区向外围扩散的特征;在时间上,先是从2010年以来出现以破年变为特征的中期趋势异常,逐渐由趋势异常向短期异常再向临震异常演化,临震异常主要以加速转折下降为主。      

伽师强震群震源特征及震源机制力学成因分析

应用改进的主地震相对定位法对17年伽师强震群3级以上地震进行了精确定位,根据较强地震的空间分布和震源机制解推断出伽师震群的发震构造为北北西向的雁行断裂.根据伽师震群地震的2177个P波初动方向记录,计算了伽师震群的平均震源机制解.基于Silver的震源模型,由震源谱推断了伽师震群主要地震的破裂方向,破裂尺度及应力降.文中最后用右阶雁行断裂的数值模型计算了伽师震群的发震构造所产生的扰动应力场的空间分布图像,用其解释了序列地震震源机制的多样性和低应力降现象,并认为特定的雁行发震构造与强震的多发性有关.     

漳州断陷盆地及发震构造

通过对漳断陷盆地地震性质、地震活动性和震源机制解特征分析，研究了漳州断陷盆地强震发生的构造条件。研究结果认为，漳州盆地北西向九江下游西溪断裂是该地区的主要发震构造。     

南天山东段地震活动特征

分析研究了南天山地震带构造环境、中强地震活动震源机制解、中强地震时空分布以及拜城周围小震群活动与中强地震的关系。结果表明：南天山东段中强震震源断错以倾滑逆断为主,主压应力P轴由西到东呈扇形分布;相距较近的库车与拜城地区地震活动存在较大差异,但均存在明显的成丛性分布特点;拜城地区中强地震分布呈北西向可能预示着该区存在隐伏断裂,小震群活动则可能反映了局部中强震对周围次级小构造的影响。     

A Monte Carlo study of rainfall forecasting with a stochastic model

A procedure for short-term rainfall forecasting in real-time is developed and a study of the role of sampling on forecast ability is conducted. Ground level rainfall fields are forecasted using a stochastic space-time rainfall model in state-space form. Updating of the rainfall field in real-time is accomplished using a distributed parameter Kalman filter to optimally combine measurement information and forecast model estimates. The influence of sampling density on forecast accuracy is evaluated using a series of a simulated rainfall events generated with the same stochastic rainfall model. Sampling was conducted at five different network spatial densities. The results quantify the influence of sampling network density on real-time rainfall field forecasting. Statistical analyses of the rainfall field residuals illustrate improvement in one hour lead time forecasts at higher measurement densities.     

Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration Aims And Scope

正This journal is established by the Institute of Engineering Mechanics(IEM),China Earthquake Administration,to promote scientific exchange between Chinese and foreign scientists and engineers so as to improve the theory and practice of earthquake hazards mitigation,preparedness,and recovery.To accomplish this purpose,the journal aims to attract a balanced number of papers between Chinese and     

Solute concentrations in the lower niger river and the source rock contribution

Water quality analyses for the Niger River for the 1980/81 hydrological year are presented. The samples were collected from the main river at Lokoja, and from two main tributaries, the Kaduna and the Benue Rivers. Different water types were distinguished by the concentrations of major ions. The type Ca > Na > Mg > K - HCO₃ > SO₄ > Cl was represented at all stations during at least part of the year. Chloride was found to dominate the sulphate ion in the Kaduna and Niger, while the Benue maintained a higher concentration of sulphate relative to chloride all year round. Distinct patterns of seasonal variation in the ion concentrations were observed, particularly for the samples collected at Lokoja. Low ion concentrations were prominent during periods of high discharge, while low flow periods coincided with high dissolved ion concentrations. The contribution of rainwater to the total dissolved solids in the river waters was assessed indirectly using rainwater chemistry data from the Gulf of Guinea. The estimated rainwater contribution to the Lower Niger amounts to 5.15 mg 1^?1. Geochemical weathering calculations involving reactions of the four major minerals of granitic rocks - anorthite, biotite, albite, and K-feldspar - with carbon dioxide and water, can account for the average water composition of the Lower Niger. The proportion of the ionic components was also related to the occurrence of the respective element in the minerals.     

Scenario predictions for potential near-field and far-field earthquakes affecting Hong Kong

Historical earthquakes noted in the written records of the South China region, including Hong Kong, are not well delineated along identified prominent fault sources. Despite the lack of any definitive, localised trend in the spatial distribution of seismic activity in the region, there does appear to be some major disparity in the seismic activity rates (especially for large magnitude earthquakes) between the near-field and the far-field regions of Hong Kong. Despite this observation, previous studies of the regional seismic activity and seismic ground motion hazard (the latter using a probabilistic seismic hazard assessment, PSHA) have considered very broad source zone regions, in which uniform levels of seismic activity have been assumed. The present paper further scrutinises this broad source zone (BSZ) approach by adopting a novel expanding circular disc (ECD) method to determine the rates of earthquake recurrence. Such a method is intended to counter-check previously developed models by determining earthquake scenario events in terms of magnitude–distance (M–R) pairs or combinations, having defined values of average return period. Unlike the BSZ approach, the ECD method specifically accounts for the supposed variations in the seismic activity rates between events in the near-field and the far-field of Hong Kong.The form of the developed method is particularly suited to the determination of design-level earthquake ground motions for bedrock sites, since it assumes a directionally-independent attenuation model as described in the companion paper. It is found that, whilst the BSZ approach may indicate the overall average levels of hazard that are representative of the South China region as a whole, it does not capture the large disparity in seismic activity rates between near-field and far-field events. This important feature is expected to have a significant impact upon engineering assessments of the seismic safety of structures in Hong Kong and elsewhere in the South China region. For example, it is found that for events with M≥6, the seismic activity rate (normalised by time and area) in the very far-field is around 3.5 times larger than in the near-field and medium-field of Hong Kong. The resulting design M-R combinations, covering a range of return periods from 70 to 2500 years, are limited, for very long return periods and for distant events, by the maximum credible earthquake (MCE) magnitude. Intensive research to determine this seismic hazard parameter is recommended, in order to refine further the results of the ECD analysis, which presently conservatively assumes the MCE to range between M=6 in the near-field of Hong Kong to M=8 in the very far-field, at distances greater than 280 km from Hong Kong.     

Depositional ages and characteristics of Middle–Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous lacustrine deposits in southeastern Mongolia

Lower Cretaceous lacustrine oil shales are widely distributed in southeastern Mongolia. Due to the high organic carbon content of oil shale, many geochemical studies and petroleum exploration have been conducted. Although most of the oil shales are considered to be Early Cretaceous in age, a recent study reveals that some were deposited in the Middle Jurassic. The present study aims at establishing depositional ages and characteristics of the Jurassic and Cretaceous lacustrine deposits in Mongolia. The Lower Cretaceous Shinekhudag Formation is about 250 m thick and composed of alternating beds of shale and dolomite. The Middle Jurassic Eedemt Formation is about 150 m thick and composed of alternating beds of shale, dolomitic marl, and siltstone. The alternations of shale and dolomite in both formations were formed by lake level changes, reflecting precipitation changes. Shales were deposited in the center of a deep lake during highstand, while dolomites were formed by primary precipitation during lowstand. Based on the radiometric age dating, the Shinekhudag Formation was deposited between 123.8 ±2.0 Ma and 118.5 ±0.9 Ma of the early Aptian. The Eedemt Formation was deposited at around 165–158 Ma of Callovian–Oxfordian. The calculated sedimentation rate of the Shinekhudag Formation is between 4.7 ±2.6 cm/ky and 10.0 ±7.6 cm/ky. Shales in the Shinekhudag Formation show micrometer‐scale lamination, consisting of algal organic matter and detrital clay mineral couplets. Given the average thickness of micro‐laminae and calculated sedimentation rate, the micro‐lamination is most likely of varve origin. Both Middle–Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous lacustrine oil shales were deposited in intracontinental basins in the paleo‐Asian continent. Tectonic processes and basin evolution basically controlled the deposition of these oil shales. In addition, enhanced precipitation under humid climate during the early Aptian and the Callovian–Oxfordian was another key factor inducing the widespread oil shale deposition in Mongolia.     

THEORETICAL APPROACH TO THE SOLUTION OF THE INFILTRATION PROBLEM

ABSTRACT

The one-dimensional transient downward entry of water in unsaturated soils is investigated theoretically. The mathematical equation describing the infiltration process is derived by combining Darcy's dynamic equation of motion with the continuity and thermodynamic state equations adjusted for the unsaturated flow conditions. The resulting equation together with the corresponding initial and boundary conditions constitues a mathematical initial boundary value problem requiring the solution of a nonlinear partial differential equation of the parabolic type. The volumetric water content is taken as the dependent variable and the time and the position along the vertical direction are taken as the independent variables. The governing equation is of such nature that a solution exists for t > 0 and is uniquely determined if two relationships are defined, together with the specified state of the system, at the initial time t = 0 and at the two boundaries. The two required relations are those of pressure versus permeability and pressure versus volumetric water content.

Since the partial differential equation has strong non-linear terms, a discrete solution is obtained by approximating the derivatives with finite-differences at discrete mesh points in the solution domain and integrated for the corresponding initial and boundary conditions. The use of an implicit difference scheme is employed in order to generate a system of simultaneous non-linear equations that has to be solved for each time increment. For n mesh points the two boundary conditions provide two equations and the repetition of the recurrence formula provides n—2 equations, the total being n equations for each time increment. The solution of the system is obtained by matrix inversion and particularly with a back-substitution technique. The FORTRAN statements used for obtaining the solution with an electronic digital computer (IBM 704) are presented together with the input data.

Analysis of the errors involved in the numerical solution is made and the stability and convergence of the solution of the approximate difference equation to that of the differential equation is investigated. The method applied is that of making a Fourier series expansion of a whole line of errors and then following the progress of the general term of the series expansion and also the behavior of each constituent harmonic. The errors (forming a continuous function of points in an abstract Banach space) are represented by vectors with the Fourier coefficients constituting a second Banach space. The amplification factor of the difference equation is shown to be always less than unity which guarantees the stability of the employed implicit recurrence scheme.

Experiments conducted on a vertical column packed uniformly with very fine sand, show a satisfactory agreement between the theoretically and experimentally obtained values. Many experimental results are shown in an attempt to explain the infiltration phenomenon with emphasis on the shape and movement of the wet front, and the effects of the degree of compaction, initial water content and deaired water on the infiltration rate.     

Late Permian post‐ophiolitic trondhjemites from Central Iran: a mark of subduction role in growth of Paleozoic continental crust

Late Permian trondhjemites in the Anarak area occur as stocks and dykes, which cross cut the Anarak ophiolite and its overlying metasedimentary rocks, and are exposed along the northern Anarak east–west main faults. These leucocratic intrusive bodies have enclaves of all ophiolitic units and metamorphic rocks. They are composed of amphibole, plagioclase (oligoclase), quartz, zircon and muscovite. Secondary minerals are chlorite (pycnochlorite), epidote, albite, magnetite and calcite. Whole‐rock major‐ and trace‐element analyses reveal that they are characterized by high SiO ₂ (67.8–71.0 wt%), Al ₂ O ₃ (14.9–17.1 wt%) and Na ₂ O (5.3–8.6 wt%), low K ₂ O (0.1–1.5 wt%; average: 0.8 wt%), low Rb/Sr ratio (0.01–0.40; average: 0.09), low Y (3–6 ppm), negative Ti, Nb and Ta anomalies, slightly negative or positive Eu anomaly, LREE enrichment and fractionated HREE. These rocks present 2 to 40 times enrichment in inclined chondrite‐normalized REE patterns. Geochemical characteristics of the Anarak trondhjemites all reflect melting of a mafic protolith at more than 10 kbar. The field evidence and whole‐rock chemistry reveal that these rocks have been crystallized from magmas derived from melting of subducted Anarak oceanic crust. This study reveals that melting of garnet amphibolite was an important element of continent formation in the study area.