共查询到20条相似文献,搜索用时 31 毫秒
1.
GPS observations in the Western Bohemia/Vogtland earthquake swarm region revealed indications of horizontal displacements
of low amplitude, and no clear long-term trend in 1993–2007. On the other hand, in 1998–2001 there was relatively significant
active movement along NNE-SSW oriented line that we called the “Cheb-Kraslice GPS Boundary” (ChKB), identical with an important
limitation of earthquake activity. The most impressive were dextral (right-lateral) movements in the 1998–1999 period followed
by reverse sinistral (left-lateral) movements in 1999–2000 that correlate with prevailing motion defined by fault plane solutions
of the Autumn 2000 earthquake swarm. Before the February 2004 micro-swarm, two points located on opposite sides of the Mariánské
Lázně fault showed extension in the order of about 7 mm in the same NNE-SSW direction of ChKB. The new NOKO permanent GPS
station in Novy Kostel showed the peak-to-peak vertical changes up to 10 mm before and during the February 2007 micro-swarm.
Annual precise levelling campaigns in the local network around Novy Kostel revealed regular vertical displacements during
the 1994, 1997 and 2000 earthquake swarms. The points around the Novy Kostel seismological station showed uplift during the
active periods, including the micro-swarm February 2004. However, no such indication was observed on levelling points in the
period of the February 2007 swarm. Long-term vertical displacements depend on the same direction NNE-SSW (ChKB) as the GPS
displacements. Both geodetic techniques have revealed oscillating displacements, GPS horizontal, and levelling vertical, rather
than any long-term trends in the study period 1993–2007. The displacements exhibited significant spatial and temporal relation
to tectonic activity (earthquake swarms) including their coincidence with the seismologically determined sense of motion along
the fault plane during earthquakes. 相似文献
2.
《Journal of Geodynamics》2003,35(1-2):145-156
The seismicity in the Vogtland/NW-Bohemia region is mainly characterized by the occurrence of earthquake swarms. A key to a better understanding of the reasons of earthquake swarms can be provided by focal mechanism investigations. Here we present focal mechanisms for 12 of the strongest events (ML⩾3.0) for the new swarm of 2000. With more than 10,000 events and magnitudes up to 3.7 the new swarm is the most prominent one since the big swarm in 1985/1986. The focal mechanisms of the swarm 2000 show different styles of faulting, namely strike-slip, normal and reverse faulting. There are indications for systematic temporal variations in the dislocation type. A comparison with the mechanisms of the preceding swarms of 1985/1986, 1994 and 1997 which all took place at the same location shows similarities in the faulting types and orientations of the nodal planes for the swarms of 1985/1986, 1994 and 2000. However, the focal mechanisms of 1997 do not fit into the scheme of the others. The focal mechanisms have also been used to determine the regional stress field. It turned out that the stress field in the Vogtland/NW-Bohemia region does not substantially differ from the known stress field in West and Central Europe. It is a strike slip regime with a SE–NW directed σ1-axis and a NE–SW directed σ3-axis. 相似文献
3.
A swarm of earthquakes of magnitudes up to M
L = 3.8 stroke the region of West Bohemia/Vogtland (border area between Czechia and Germany) in October 2008. It occurred in
the Novy Kostel focal zone, where also all recent earthquake swarms (1985/1986, 1997, and 2000) took place, and was striking
by a fast sequence of macroseismically observed earthquakes. We present the basic characteristics of this swarm based on the
observations of a local network WEBNET (West Bohemia seismic network), which has been operated in the epicentral area, on
the Czech territory. The swarm was recorded by 13 to 23 permanent and mobile WEBNET stations surrounding the swarm epicenters.
In addition, a part of the swarm was also recorded by strong-motion accelerometers, which represent the first true accelerograms
of the swarm earthquakes in the region. The peak ground acceleration reached 0.65 m/s2. A comparison with previous earthquake swarms indicates that the total seismic moments released during the 1985/1986 and
2008 swarms are similar, of about 4E16 Nm, and that they represent the two largest swarms that occurred in the West Bohemia/
Vogtland region since the M
L = 5.0 swarm of 1908. Characteristic features of the 2008 swarm are its short duration (4 weeks) and rapidity and, consequently,
the fastest seismic moment release compared to previous swarms. Up to 25,000 events in the magnitude range of 0.5 < M
L < 3.8 were detected using an automatic picker. A total of nine swarm phases can be distinguished in the swarm, five of them
exceeding the magnitude level of 2.5. The magnitude–frequency distribution of the complete 2008 swarm activity shows a b value close to 1. The swarm hypocenters fall precisely on the same fault portion of the Novy Kostel focal zone that was activated
by the 2000 swarm (M
L ≤ 3.2) in a depth interval from 6 to 11 km and also by the 1985/1986 swarm (M
L ≤ 4.6). The steeply dipping fault planes of the 2000 and 2008 swarms seem to be identical considering the location error
of about 100 m. Furthermore, focal mechanisms of the 2008 swarm are identical with those of the 2000 swarm, both matching
an average strike of 170° and dip of 80° of the activated fault segment. An overall upward migration of activity is observed
with first events at the bottom and last events at the top of the of the activated fault patch. Similarities in the activated
fault area and in the seismic moments released during the three largest recent swarms enable to estimate the seismic potential
of the focal zone. If the whole segment of the fault plane was activated simultaneously, it would represent an earthquake
of M
L ~5. This is in good agreement with the estimates of the maximum magnitudes of earthquakes that occurred in the West Bohemia/Vogtland
region in the past. 相似文献
4.
S. S. Jakobsdóttir M. J. Roberts G. B. Guđmundsson H. Geirsson R. Slunga 《Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica》2008,52(4):513-528
In 2007, intense swarms of deep, tectonic earthquakes, amounting to at least 5 300 epicentres, were detected near to Mount Upptyppingar, which forms part of the Kverkfjöll volcano system in Iceland’s Northern Volcanic Zone. Although micro-seismicity is common within such volcanic regions, the Upptyppingar swarms have been more intensive and persistent than any other deep-seated seismicity observed in Iceland. Here we outline the spatial and temporal changes in ongoing seismicity that began in February 2007; in addition, we document enhanced levels of GPS-derived crustal deformation, recorded within 25 km of the area of swarming. Besides displaying spatial clustering, the Upptyppingar micro-earthquakes are noteworthy because: (i) they concentrate at focal depths of 14–22 km; (ii) the swarms comprise brittle-type earthquakes < 2 in magnitude, yielding a b-value of 2.1; and (iii) several of the swarms originate at focal depths exceeding 18 km. Additionally, different parts of the affected region have exhibited seismicity at different times, with swarm sites alternating between distinct areas. The activity moved with time towards east-north-east and to shallower depths. Linear regression approximates the seismicity on a southward-dipping, ~41° plane. Alongside sustained earthquake activity, significant horizontal displacement was registered at two permanent GPS stations in the region. High strain rates are required to explain brittle fracturing under visco-elastic conditions within the Earth’s crust; similarly, intense, localised deformation at considerable depth is necessary to reconcile the measured surface deformation. Such remarkable seismicity and localised deformation suggests that magma is ascending into the base of the crust. 相似文献
5.
《Journal of Geodynamics》2003,35(1-2):125-144
The NW Bohemia/Vogtland region situated at the western part of the Bohemian Massif is characteristic in a frequent reoccurrence of earthquake and micro-earthquake swarms. We present a comprehensive, integrated pattern of the space and time distribution of seismic energy release in the principal NK (Nový Kostel) focal zone for the period 1991–2001 and for the intensive 1985/1986 swarm. More than 3000 earthquakes, recorded by the WEBNET, the KRASLICE net and by temporary stations VAC, TIS and OLV operating during the 1985/1986 swarm, were located or re-located using the master event technique. Swarm-like sequences were identified and discriminated from solitary events by detecting local minima of the inter-event time using a standard short-time/long-time average (STA/LTA) detection algorithm. Most of the seismic energy in the NK zone was released during the two intensive 1985/1986 and 2000 swarms and in the course of the weaker January 1997 swarm. Further 27 swarm-like sequences (micro-swarms) and many solitary micro-earthquakes (background activity) were identified in the NK zone for the period 1991–2001 by the inter-event time analysis. Relative location revealed a pronounced planar character of the NK focal zone. Most of the events, including those of the intensive 1985/1986 and 2000 swarms, were located at the main focal plane (MFP) striking 169° N and dipping 80° westward at depths between 6 and 11 km. A singularity was the January 1997 swarm together with a micro-swarm that were both located across the MFP. The position and geometry of the MFP match quite well the Nový Kostel-Počátky-Zwota tectonic line. The space distribution patterns of larger events and of micro-swarms at the MFP differ: larger events predominantly grouped in planar clusters while the micro-swarms lined up along two parallel seismogenic lines. The temporal behaviour was examined from two aspects: (a) migration and (b) recurrence of the seismic activity. It was found that (a) the seismic activity in the time span 1991–2001 migrated in an area of about 12×4 km and (b) several segments of the MFP were liable to reactivation. The activity before, during and after the 2000 swarm took place in different parts of the MFP. 相似文献
6.
Role of crustal fluids in triggering the West Bohemia/Vogtland earthquake swarms: Just what we know (a review) 总被引:3,自引:3,他引:0
We summarise the results of seismological studies related to triggering mechanisms, driving forces and source processes of
the West Bohemia/Vogtland earthquake swarms with the aim to disclose the role of crustal fluids in the preparation, triggering
and governing of the swarms. We present basic characteristics distinguishing earthquake swarms from tectonic mainshock-aftershock
sequences and introduce existing earthquakes swarm models. From the statistical characteristics and time-space distribution
of the foci we infer that self-organization is a peculiarity of West Bohemia/Vogtland swarms. We discuss possible causes of
the foci migration in these swarms from the viewpoint of co-seismic and/or post-seismic stress changes and diffusion of the
pressurized fluids, and we summarize hitherto published models of triggering the 2000-swarm. Attention is paid to the source
mechanisms, particularly to their non-shear components. We consider possible causes of different source mechanisms of the
1997-and 2000-swarms and infer that pure shear processes controlled solely by the regional tectonic stress prevail in them,
and that additional tensile forces may appear only at unfavourably oriented faults. On data from the fluid injection experiment
at the HDR site Soultz (Alsace), we also show that earthquakes triggered by fluids can represent purely shear processes. Thus
we conclude that increased pore pressure of crustal fluids in the region plays a key role in bringing the faults from the
subcritical to critical state. The swarm activities are mainly driven by stress changes due to co-seismic and post-seismic
slips, which considerably depend on the frictional conditions at the fault; crustal fluids keep the fault in a critical state.
An open question still remains the cause of the repeatedly observed almost simultaneous occurrence of seismic activity in
different focal zones in a wider area of West Bohemia/Vogtland. The analysis of the space-time relations of seismicity in
the area between 1991 and 2007 revealed that during a significant part of this time span the seismicity was switching among
distant focal zones. This indicates a common triggering force which might be the effect of an increase of crustal-fluid pore-pressure
affecting a wider epicentral region. 相似文献
7.
The West Bohemia and adjacent Vogtland are well known for quasi-periodical earthquake swarms persisting for centuries. The seismogenic area near Nový Kostel involved about 90 % of overall earthquake activity clustered here in space and time. The latest major earthquake swarm took place in August–September 2011. In 1994 and 1997, two minor earthquake swarms appeared in another location, near Lazy. Recently, the depth-recursive tomography yielded a velocity image with an improved resolution along the CEL09 refraction profile passing between these swarm areas. The resolution, achieved in the velocity image and its agreement with the inverse gravity modeling along the collateral 9HR reflection profile, enabled us to reveal the key structural background of these West Bohemia earthquake swarms. The CEL09 velocity image detected two deeply rooted high-velocity bodies adjacent to the Nový Kostel and Lazy focal zones. They correspond to two Variscan mafic intrusions influenced by the SE inclined slab of Saxothuringian crust that subducted beneath the Teplá-Barrandian terrane in the Devonian era. In their uppermost SE inclined parts, they roof both focal zones. The high P-wave velocities of 6,100–6,200 m/s, detected in both roofing caps, indicate their relative compactness and impermeability. The focal domains themselves are located in the almost gradient-free zones with the swarm foci spread near the axial planes of profound velocity depressions. The lower velocities of 5,950–6,050 m/s, observed in the upper parts of focal zones, are indicative of less compact rock complexes corrugated and tectonically disturbed by the SE bordering magma ascents. The high-velocity/high-density caps obviously seal the swarm focal domains because almost no magmatic fluids of mantle origin occur in the Nový Kostel and Lazy seismogenic areas of the West Bohemia/Vogtland territory, otherwise rich in the mantle-derived fluids. This supports the hypothesis of the fluid triggering of earthquake swarms. The sealed focal domains retain ascending magmatic fluids until their critical pressure and volumes accumulated cause rock micro-fractures perceived as single earthquake bursts. During a swarm period, the focal depths of these sequential events become shallower while their magnitudes grow. We assume that coalescence of the induced micro-fractures forms temporary permeability zones in the final swarm phase and the accumulated fluids release into the overburden via the adjacent fault systems. The fluid release usually occurs after the shallowest events with the strongest magnitudes ML > 3. The seasonal summer declines of hydrostatic pressure in the Cheb Basin aquifer system seem to facilitate and trigger the fluid escape as happened for the 2000, 2008, and 2011 earthquake swarms. The temporary fluid release, known as the valve-fault action, influences the surface aquifer systems in various manners. In particular, we found three quantities, the strain, mantle-derived 3He content in CO2 surface sources and ground water levels, which display a 3–5 months decline before and then a similar restoration after each peak earthquake during the swarm activities. The revealed structure features are particularly important since the main Nový Kostel earthquake swarm area is proposed as a site for the ICDP project, ‘Eger Rift Drilling’. 相似文献
8.
Earthquake swarms are often assumed to be caused by magmatic or fluid intrusions, where the stress changes in the vicinity
of the intrusion control the position, strength and rate of seismicity. Fracture mechanical models of natural intrusions or
man-made hydrofractures pose constraints on orientation, magnitude, shape and growing rate of fractures and can be used to
estimate stress changes in the vicinity of the intrusions. Although the idea of intrusion-induced seismicity is widely accepted,
specific comparisons of seismicity patterns with fracture models of stress changes are rarely done.
The goal of the study is to review patterns of intrusion-induced earthquake swarms in comparison to the observations of the
swarm in NW Bohemia in 2000. We analyse and discuss the theoretical 3D shape of intrusions under mixed mode loading and apparent
buoyancy. The aspect ratio and form of the intrusion is used to constrain parameters of the fluid, the surrounding rock and
stress. We conclude that the 2000 NW Bohemia swarm could have been driven by a magmatic intrusion. The intrusion was, however,
inclined to the maximal principal stress and caused shear displacement additional to opening. We estimate that the density
diference between magma and rock was small. The feeding reservoir was possibly much larger than the area affected from earthquakes
and may be a vertical dike beneath the swarm region. 相似文献
9.
2016年8月唐山震群视应力变化特征 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
2016年8月河北唐山发生震群活动,具有频次高、持续时间长等特点。利用首都圈数字化地震台网监测的2016年1月—2017年5月河北唐山地区ML≥2.5地震,采用遗传算法反演震源参数,计算相应地震视应力值。分析结果如下:①此次地震序列为前震—主震—余震型;②视应力值在震群发生前明显增高,发生过程中出现高低相间现象,在ML 4.3主震出现峰值,震源区应力状态不稳定,震后视应力恢复正常;③震群视应力与震级呈现一定正相关。 相似文献
10.
11.
The western part of the Bohemian Massif is characterized by repeated occurrences of intraplate earthquake swarms. To study surface deformations of this anomalous region, a network covering about 2000 square kilometres for repeated geodetic measurements was established in 1993 - 1994. The positions of the individual points of the network were carefully picked with respect to local tectonic structure and earthquake foci distribution. GPS and precise levelling measurements were performed 1-2 times a year. The GPS data were processed by Bernese GPS software.
No tendency to any displacement - either horizontal or vertical - of geological blocks was derived from the geodetic data for the period 1993 - 96. Only displacements of less than 5 mm/year in average could occur in the whole region in that period; larger displacements would have been revealed by our measurements. 相似文献
12.
对青海省1996年12月~1997年7月发生的4起震群活动的特征进行了研究,对其空间分布图象进行了分析.结果表明,锡铁山震群和大武震群为前兆性震群,龙羊峡震群和茫崖震群为非前兆震群.4起震群在总体上形成NW向条带.根据震群的总体特点及地震空区等,讨论了青海省近期地震活动趋势 相似文献
13.
14.
《Journal of Geodynamics》2003,35(1-2):157-172
The temporal clustering of swarm activity differs significantly from characteristics of aftershock sequences accompanying mainshocks. This is often assumed to be caused by crustal structure complexities and fluid migration. However, the underlying mechanism is not yet fully understood, especially, the processes and conditions which lead to the apparent differences between the swarm patterns and typical mainshock–aftershock sequences. In previous works, we have shown that the most conspicuous characteristics of tectonic earthquakes can be reproduced by stick-slip block models incorporating visco-elastic interactions. Now, the same model is shown to reproduce an almost periodical occurrence of earthquake swarms in the case of an enlarged postseismic response. The simulated swarms respect not only the Gutenberg-Richter law for the event sizes, they also reproduce several observations regarding their spatio-temporal patterns. In particular, the comparison with the January 1997 and the year 2000 swarm in Vogtland/NW-Bohemia shows a good agreement in the interevent-time distributions and the spatio-temporal spreading of the swarm activity. The simulated seismicity patterns result from self-organization within the swarm due to local stress transfers and viscous coupling. Consequently, the agreement with the Vogtland swarm activity do not allow any decision about the preparatory process of the swarms; in particular, the question whether the swarms are initially triggered by fluid intrusion or tectonic motion cannot be answered. However, the model investigations suggest that the process of self-organization is very important for understanding the activity patterns of earthquake swarms. 相似文献
15.
The focal mechanisms of events from three micro-earthquake swarms (swarm in the years 1985/86, swarm of December 1994, and swarm of January 1997) in the epicentral area of Nový Kostel (West Bohemia region) were used as input data for stress analyses. The simple graphical method of Angelier and Mechler (1977) and inversion by the program BRUTE3 (Hardcastle and Hills, 1993) were applied to the data collections. The results of the stress analyses for the 1985/86 swarm and for the swarm of December 1994 are similar. For the January 1997 swarm, the results of the analyses differ from those for older swarms. The axis of maximum extension is oriented in the NE-SW direction and is subhorizontal, the axis of maximum compression is oriented in the NW-SE direction and perspicuously dips towards SE. These results are similar to older results of stress analyses carried out for the 1985/86 swarm (Antonini, 1988; Sonnleitner,1993). They are also consistent with most of other published results of stress analyses conducted at different sites in the western part of the Bohemian Massif. The orientation of the principal stresses confirms the sinistral strike-slip movement along the Nový Kostel-Poátky-Zwota line (the trend is about 355°) defined by the epicentres of the micro-earthquakes. The eastern tectonic limit of the Cheb Basin (and other respective parallel faults ) could be characterised by normal rather than strike-slip faulting. 相似文献
16.
17.
A significant number of volcano-tectonic (VT) earthquake swarms, some of which are accompanied by ground deformation and/or
volcanic gas emissions, do not culminate in an eruption. These swarms are often thought to represent stalled intrusions of
magma into the mid- or shallow-level crust. Real-time assessment of the likelihood that a VT swarm will culminate in an eruption
is one of the key challenges of volcano monitoring, and retrospective analysis of non-eruptive swarms provides an important
framework for future assessments. Here we explore models for a non-eruptive VT earthquake swarm located beneath Iliamna Volcano,
Alaska, in May 1996–June 1997 through calculation and inversion of fault-plane solutions for swarm and background periods,
and through Coulomb stress modeling of faulting types and hypocenter locations observed during the swarm. Through a comparison
of models of deep and shallow intrusions to swarm observations, we aim to test the hypothesis that the 1996–97 swarm represented
a shallow intrusion, or “failed” eruption. Observations of the 1996–97 swarm are found to be consistent with several scenarios
including both shallow and deep intrusion, most likely involving a relatively small volume of intruded magma and/or a low
degree of magma pressurization corresponding to a relatively low likelihood of eruption. 相似文献
18.
《Journal of Geodynamics》2003,35(1-2):83-96
The last strong earthquake swarm in the region Vogtland/NW-Bohemia occurred between August and November 2000 with about 10000 micro-earthquakes at magnitudes up to 3.7. On the territory of Germany the seismic activity was monitored both by means of permanent and mobile stations. Mobile stations were installed by the Seismological Central Observatory at Erlangen (SZGRF) in co-operation with the “Geo-Forschungs-Zentrum”-(GFZ)-Potsdam and the University of Potsdam. The objects of this paper are: (1) the presentation of seismic stations on the German side of the earthquake region during the swarm 2000, (2) the comparison of the frequency–time and magnitude–time distribution of the recent swarm 2000 with previous swarms in the 20th century. 相似文献
19.
2002年8月20日长白山天池火山小震震群研究 总被引:17,自引:2,他引:17
2002年7~9月,采用15台宽频带流动地震仪在长白山天池火山区进行了近3个月的地震观测,记录到大量发生在天池火山附近的地震和多次小震群。对2002年8月20日的小震群进行了分析,结果表明这些地震发生在长白山天池内的西南部,震源深度距离天池水面一般小于4km深,震群的震中位置呈北西向线性分布。地震记录的频谱分析表明,该震群为典型的火山构造类型地震。在观测中发现HSZ和DZD台的地震记录低频成份丰富,这可能与台站附近的局部介质变化或低速的断层带有关。我们认为震群可能是由火山深部活动诱发的局部断裂活动所引起。 相似文献
20.
《Journal of Geodynamics》2003,35(1-2):97-105
During the earthquake swarm in the north-western part of the Czech Republic which happened between August and November 2000 more than 10 500 single events have been recorded at the station Wernitzgruen (WERN), located in the Vogtland (Germany) at about 13 km hypocentral distance. Most of the events were weak and followed each other so closely in time that they could not be identified at more distant stations in Middle Europe. A procedure to determine magnitudes of very small events from recordings in short distances is realized and discussed. The development over time of the seismic activity shows the typical pattern of previous earthquake swarms in this region consisting of multiple swarm episodes. For the first time, however, it is analysed using the time intervals between successive events. However, no new and reproducible patterns were found which could be useful for prognostics of future swarm activities. 相似文献