Fault structures and their geoelectric parameters in the epicentral zone of the 27 September 2003 Chuya earthquake (Gorny Altai) from resistivity data

This paper presents an integrated measurement technique based on DC methods (vertical electrical sounding, electrical resistivity tomography) which was used to identify faults and determine their geoelectric parameters in the western part of the Chuya basin. New information on the structure of the Chagan River valley located in the zone of the disastrous 27 September 2003 Chuya earthquake has been obtained from the results of these methods. Geoelectric cross-sections of the sedimentary sequence and the upper part of the basement were obtained from VES data, showing the block structure of the study area. Electrical resistivity tomography sections confirm the presence of a major fault between basement blocks of different heights and indicate the presence of faults bounding the valley on its right side and in the southwestern part.     

Detecting Active Faults in Quaternary Basalt Areas by the High - Density Electrical Method : An Example of the West Branch of the Fusong Section of Yalüjiang Fault Zone in Northeast China北大核心CSCD

覆盖区活动断裂探测往往需要选择合理的物探方法以确定断裂位置,高密度电法具有数据采集效率高、探测精度高等优点,已在覆盖区活动断裂探测中得到广泛应用。本文利用高密度电法在长白山玄武岩覆盖区进行断裂探测,对实测数据进行反演,分析了NE向鸭绿江断裂带抚松段西支断裂在松江河镇北东侧第二松花江畔的展布形态,同时,利用钻探对断裂探测结果加以验证。视电阻率剖面表明完整基岩主要呈现出高阻值,断裂破碎带由于含水丰富则呈现为低视电阻率异常值。而断层内较为破碎,且富含水,故在视电阻率剖面上呈现明显低阻异常,这些结果能够与钻孔揭露地层实物资料较好对应。钻孔的断层样品¹⁴C测年结果显示,西支断裂在松江河镇兴隆林场为晚更新世活动断裂。     

太康隆起东段地热资源远景区调查评价与研究

应用大地电磁测深法(MT)对太康隆起东段深部地层结构及隐伏断裂进行探测研究,共布设了4条MT剖面,获得了97个测深点,并对所获得的MT数据的二维偏离度、构造走向等进行计算和分析,采用非线性共轭梯度(NLCG)二维反演方法对TE和TM模式的数据进行联合反演,得到了可靠的地下介质二维地电模型。研究结果表明,商丘凸起电性结构纵向上具有典型的分层特征,从上到下可分为三层,即低阻层-中高阻层-高阻层。根据该电性结构模型,结合研究区域重力、航磁、地震及区域地质资料,绘制了商丘凸起基岩地质图,同时根据深部基底隆起形成的高阻异常与区域地温场高值区具有较好的对应关系,据此圈定了2处地热异常远景区。     

泛亚铁路滇西大理至瑞丽沿线主要活动断裂与地震地质特征

根据最新的遥感影像解译和地表调查成果,分析总结了拟建的云南大理至瑞丽铁路沿线区域最新的地表变形特征、主要活动断裂带的几何分布与运动学特征。结果显示,影响该区地壳稳定性的活动断裂带主要有10条,从东到西包括：点苍山东麓断裂、云龙-永平断裂带、保山断裂带、蒲缥-施甸断裂、太平-罗明坝断裂、镇安断裂带、龙新共轭断裂系、黄连河共轭断裂系、龙川江断裂和畹町断裂带,其中晚第四纪期间活动性最显著、对工程场地稳定性影响最大的是：点苍山东麓断裂带、保山盆地西缘断裂带、蒲缥-施甸断裂、畹町断裂带等。同时,通过整理分析近代强震资料发现,仅根据历史强震资料所揭示的高地震烈度区是不全面的,结合最新的活动断裂调查成果,对大瑞铁路沿线区域的地震烈度分区进行重新划分后,认为大瑞铁路工程场地区从东到西至少存在：大理-弥渡、保山、蒲缥-施甸、镇安-荆竹坪和瑞丽-畹町5个大于等于区级的高地震烈度区,需要在铁路工程建设的抗震设防时给予重点关注。     

综合物探方法在广西柳州隐伏断裂探测中的应用

据野外地震地质调查研究,柳州市柳北区存在多条隐伏断裂带,这些断裂带的具体位置尚未确定,这对柳北区的建设发展存在极大隐患。为此,在地质调查的基础上,本文采用高密度电法和地震映像综合方法来探测柳北区隐伏断裂带的具体位置,通过钻探验证和地质调查研究,确定了隐伏断裂带的具体位置,为柳州市柳北区的建设发展提供安全保障。     

Surface magnetic survey of the Souss Basin, southwestern Morocco: Evaluation of the tectonic role postulated for the Agadir and Tarfaya fault zones and the South Atlas flexure

The results of a surface magnetic survey over the Souss Basin, the High Atlas and Anti-Atlas margins, combined with the gravity data of Van den Bosch (1971) and a review of the regional geology permits us to trace structures from the High Atlas into the Souss Basin. The South Atlas flexure is an east—west trending structure imposed during the Cenozoic upon an area with a northeast—southwest, Anti-Atlas structural grain.The major structure is the Tarfaya fault zone, whose location, projected by Choubert and Faure-Muret (1970), lies within a corridor of low residual magnetic anomalies. The continuation of this structure in the High Atlas is the Tizi n'Test fault zone. The Hercynian activity of the Tizi n' Test fault zone (Mattauer et al., 1972) was just one period of reactivation of an older, Precambrian, structure for we believe the Tarfaya fault zone was also active in post-late Triassic time.The Agadir earthquake occurred along a minor fault parallel to the Tarfaya-Tizi n' Test zone and is not related to the South Atlas flexure. Neither does it represent the entry into the African continent of a major ocean linked structure. The Tarfaya-Tizi n' Test fault zone is a much more likely candidate, for its offshore trend appears to match that of the Canary Fracture Zone.     

近区组合波频域电磁测深视电阻率分析

双频组合波电磁测深视电阻率是利用双频电磁波进行地电探测的一种新方法。本文通过对各种典型地电模型视电阻率曲线分析,进一步证明了该视电阻率是进行近区频域电磁测深的一种行之有效的方法,它是电磁响应的单值函数,能客观反映地电断面的电性变化规律。具有压制背景场、突出地电异常的功能。它所表现的对地层的分辨能力和各种特性符合测评的要求。     

Electrical structures of the source area of the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, earthquake: Spatial correlation between crustal conductors and aftershocks

Wide-band magnetotelluric (MT) data were collected on an east–west profile, approximately perpendicular to the local strike of the Chelungpu thrust, through the hypocentral area of the Chi-Chi earthquake for imaging the seismogenic structure. MT data were then inverted for two-dimensional resistivity models plus best-fitting static shift parameters using a nonlinear conjugate gradient algorithm that minimizes the sum of the normalized data misfits and the smoothness of the model. As shown in the inverted 2D resistivity models presented in this paper, an electrical conductor beside the hypocenter of the Chi-Chi earthquake indicates that deep-crustal fluids may participate in the rupture process of the Chi-Chi earthquake. A striking spatial correlation between the crustal conductor and occurrence of aftershocks beneath the Chelungpu fault suggests a postseismic pore pressure adjustment ongoing after the mainshock. Additionally, the hypocenter exhibits an electrical resistive zone, consistent very well with a predicted compact zone from a crustal deformation and transient fluid flow modeling.     

Spatial radon anomalies on active faults in California

Radon emanation has been observed to be anomalously high along active faults in many parts of the world. We tested this relationship by conducting and repeating soil-air radon surveys with a portable radon meter across several faults in California. The results confirm the existence of fault-associated radon anomalies, which show characteristic features that may be related to fault structures but vary in time due to other environmental changes, such as rainfall. Across two creeping faults in San Juan Bautista and Hollister, the radon anomalies showed prominent double peaks straddling the fault-gouge zone during dry summers, but the peak-to-background ratios diminished after significant rain fall during winter. Across a locked segment of the San Andreas fault near Olema, the anomaly has a single peak located several meters southwest of the slip zone associated with the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Across two fault segments that ruptured during the magnitude 7.5 Landers earthquake in 1992, anomalously high radon concentration was found in the fractures three weeks after the earthquake. We attribute the fault-related anomalies to a slow vertical gas flow in or near the fault zones. Radon generated locally in subsurface soil has a concentration profile that increases three orders of magnitude from the surface to a depth of several meters; thus an upward flow that brings up deeper and radon-richer soil air to the detection level can cause a significantly higher concentration reading. This explanation is consistent with concentrations of carbon dioxide and oxygen, measured in soil-air samples collected during one of the surveys.     

山东蒙阴县西峪金伯利岩带深部综合地球物理特征及其意义

山东省蒙阴地区金伯利岩的深部地质构造特征是地学研究的热点之一。在蒙阴地区金伯利岩分布区中心部位的西峪岩带进行了10 km综合地球物理勘查,采用地震反射、大地电磁测深及重力测量解译推断出上五井和西峪两处的深部断裂构造。其中,西峪断裂带是金伯利岩浆侵入的先期控制性构造和岩浆通道,在西峪金伯利岩带内,地震反射波同相轴异常、重力低密度体、电阻率低阻异常都较为明显,且异常带有一定的连续性和规模,与已知的浅部金伯利岩体的分布形态比较吻合,推测地表延伸4 km深度内,西峪岩带内有较好的金伯利岩的发育,岩体在深部呈现节藕状间断分布。金伯利岩浆在近地表处隐爆,造成更多的破碎带和次生断裂,形成由密集零散分布的金伯利岩体组成的金伯利岩带,同时产生岩石的低电阻率和低密度异常。     

陕西咸阳市某厂工程场地地裂缝初步研究

通过实际观察、探井揭露和电法、浅层地震勘探等物探手段对某厂工程场地发现的地裂缝的形态、平面和竖向的延伸和分布以及裂缝中的充填物等特征进行了较深入的研究，明确了地裂缝是地下断裂在地表的反映。根据区域构造及场区历史地震的活动特征，从地裂缝发育的细微特征入手，分析、推断地裂缝的成因和时代，确定该断裂属微弱全新世活动断裂。     

西秦岭晚新生代构造变形的几何图像、运动学特征及其动力机制

西秦岭位于东西向展布的秦岭-大别-苏鲁中央造山带与南北向展布的贺兰山-龙门山-川滇地震带构成的巨型"十字"构造区的交汇点,是中国大陆中部"西秦岭-松潘构造结"的重要组成部分.西秦岭晚新生代的构造变形与青藏高原的侧向扩展过程密切相关.该区构造变形的几何图像、运动特征及其深部动力学机制对于揭示青藏高原东北部的动力过程及强震...     

Tectonic Stress State Changes Before and After the Wenchuan Ms 8.0 Earthquake in the Eastern Margin of the Tibetan Plateau

Crustal tectonic activities are essentially the consequences of the accumulation and release of in situ stress. Therefore, studying the stress state near active faults is important for understanding crustal dynamics and earthquake occurrences. In this paper, using in situ stress measurement results obtained by hydraulic fracturing in the vicinity of the Longmenshan fault zone before and after the Wenchuan Ms 8.0 earthquake and finite element modeling, the variation of stress state before and after the Wenchuan Ms 8.0 earthquake is investigated. The results show that the shear stress, which is proportional to the difference between principal stresses, increases with depth and distance from the active fault in the calm period or after the earthquakes, and tends to approach to the regional stress level outside the zone influenced by the fault. This distribution appears to gradually reverse with time and the change of fault properties such as frictional strength. With an increase in friction coefficient, low stress areas are reduced and areas with increased stress accumulation are more obvious near the fault. In sections of the fault with high frictional strengths, in situ stress clearly increases in the fault. Stress accumulates more rapidly in the fault zone relative to the surrounding areas, eventually leading to a stress field that peaks at the fault zone. Such a reversal in the stress field between the fault zone and surrounding areas in the magnitude of the stress field is a potential indicator for the occurrence of strong earthquakes.     

Structure and properties of the Adriatic crust in the central‐eastern Southern Alps (Italy) from local earthquake tomography

Structure and properties of the Adriatic crust were determined from local earthquake tomography around the Giudicarie fault zone (central‐eastern Southern Alps, Italy). Tomographic results, based on well‐suited 436 revised earthquakes (period 1994–2007), have a resolution comparable to the scale of regional geological domains and tectonic structures. The observed strong velocity anomalies correlate well with lithological variations corresponding to different geological domains (particularly magmatic complexes at depth) and with high fracturing and/or presence of fluids along active fault systems (South Giudicarie and Valsugana–Bassano del Grappa–Montello thrusts).     

电阻率层析成像技术在琼东北活动断裂探测中的应用

琼东北1605年琼山地震发震的中心区域东寨港东侧发育多组近东西向和北西向的活动断裂,且均为隐伏断裂。为探明断裂的分布位置及其活动性,现采用电阻率层析成像技术将其中琼山-铺前断裂(F8)以及F7、F6、F5共四条,北西走向断裂作为此次探测目标断裂。结合前人水文钻孔资料和断裂分布,在珠溪河北岸和罗豆农场北侧部署了三条电法探测线,结果表明区域沉积地层在三条反演剖面上均可以划分出三层视电阻率梯度带,与钻孔资料对应较好。同样,视电阻率对已知四条活动断裂均有明显特征的低阻异常反映,除断裂F7的倾向解释存在争议外,其余三条断裂解释均得到钻孔验证。     

敦密断裂带(辉南段)结构及其赋存地热资源可能性

本文通过对敦密断裂带上可控源音频大地电磁测深剖面分析,总结了敦密断裂带结构及其深部低阻异常特征,对其局部含热的可能性进行了探讨。     

Surface Rupture of the 1515 Yongsheng Earthquake in Northwest Yunnan,and Its Seismogeological Implications

The 1515 M7? Yongsheng earthquake is the strongest earthquake historically in northwest Yunnan. However, its time, magnitude and the seismogenic fault have long been a topic of dispute. In order to accurately define those problems, a 1:50000 active tectonic mapping was carried out along the northern segment of the Chenghai–Binchuan fault zone. The result shows that there is an at least 25 km–long surface rupture and a series of seismic landslides distributed along the Jinguan fault and the Chenghai fault. Radiocarbon dating of the ~(14) C samples indicates that the surface rupture should be a part of the deformation zone caused by the Yongsheng earthquake in the year 1515. The distribution characteristics of this surface rupture indicate that the macroscopic epicenter of the 1515 Yongsheng earthquake may be located near Hongshiya, and the seismogenic fault of this earthquake is the Jinguan–Chenghai fault, the northern part of the Chenghai–Binchuan fault zone. Striations on the surface rupture show that the latest motion of the fault is normal faulting. The maximum co–seismic vertical displacement can be 3.8 m, according to the empirical formula for the fault displacement and moment magnitude relationship, the moment magnitude of the Yongsheng earthquake was Mw 7.3–7.4. Furthermore, combining published age data with the ~(14) C data in this paper reveals that at least four large earthquakes of similar size to the 1515 Yongsheng earthquake, have taken place across the northern segment of the Chenghai–Binchuan fault zone since 17190±50 yr. BP. The in–situ recurrence interval of Mw 7.3–7.4 characteristic earthquakes in Yongsheng along this fault zone is possibly on the order of 6 ka.     

龙山门断裂带活动特征与工程区域地壳稳定性评价理论

2008年5月12日发生的里氏8.0级汶川地震处于龙门山造山带与四川盆地的构造边界上。350km长的地表破裂带呈右行左阶雁行排列在具有逆冲和右行走滑性质的汶川茂县青川、映秀北川和江油都江堰3条断层带上。下地壳的韧性流动伴随中地壳韧-脆性剪切带应力和应变的积累,产生上地壳脆性发震断层,并控制地表破裂带和滑坡的分布。震源出现在上地壳脆性断层与中地壳脆-韧性剪切带的交汇部位。〖KG2〗以汶川地震为例,结合板内地震基本特征,提出引入大陆动力学理论完善工程区域稳定性理论基础,构建基于板块学说、地质力学和大陆动力学理论的相互补充的工程区域稳定性评价体系;对活断层与地震活动性预测提出见解,强调仅仅从活断层的存在及其活动强度来预测地震活动性与强度是远远不够甚至是错误的,必须将下地壳、中地壳和上地壳结构作为一个整体加以研究和判别;提出工程区域地壳稳定性评价指标体系,指出了大陆内部安全岛划分应采用的核心指标。     

活动断层与地球物理方法

活动断层是诱发地震的主要原因，也是破坏城市建筑设施的主要因素。对活动断层进行探测并评价其危害性具有重要意义。在论述活动断层的特征及探测阶段的基础上，结合实例探讨了利用地球物理方法探测第四纪覆盖下的活动断层。实践表明，重磁方法和直流联合剖面法能直观地确定断层的地表位置；高密度电法、电磁法、浅层地震、地质雷达、井间层析成像、放射性方法等能提供断层的形态特征、近地表的活动规律，还能为活动断层的分段性研究提供依据。这对我国即将开展的大城市活动断层探测和评价工作具有指导作用。     

Crustal evolution and tectonics of the Archean Bundelkhand craton, Central India

Magnetotelluric studies over the Bundelkhand craton indicates a high resistivity sub-structure, typically observed in the Archean-Proterozoic regions. The geoelectric section shows a single high resistivity layer in the northern part of the craton, extending from surface to a depth of about 60 km and a three layered resistivity structure overlying a conductive bottom in its southern part. The geological studies reported earlier have delineated an EW trending zone of ultramafic rocks, called the Bundelkhand tectonic zone (BTZ), which marks the divide between the two electrical resistivity patterns. The geoelectric structure is broadly indicative of a northward dipping tectonic fabric in this region which conforms to the Himalayan subduction, to the immediate north of this craton. However this observation cannot explain the findings from geochemical, isotope analysis and geological studies, suggesting possible vertical block movements in the region, which are also indicated in the Bouguer gravity studies. The geoelectric structure beneath the Vindhyan group to the south shows low resistivities even up to 60 km, suggesting that the Bundelkhand craton which is characterized by high resistivity rocks, does not extend to the south beneath the Vindhyans, as was believed by the earlier researchers. A low resistivity body with an extremely high conductance of about 100,000 Siemens is delineated at the mid crustal depths beneath the exposed Bijawars south of Bundelkhand craton. The causative factors behind this low resistivity are not immediately apparent, but some possibilities are discussed here.