Study on shear wave splitting in the aftershock region of the Yao＇an earthquake in 2000

After Ms=6.5 Yao＇an earthquake on January 15, 2000, a large amount of aftershock waveforms were recorded by the Near Source Digital Seismic Network （NSSN） installed by Earthquake Administration of Yunnan Province in the aftershock region. It provides profuse data to systematically analyze the features of Yao＇an earthquake. The crustal anisotropy is realized by shear wave splitting propagating in the upper crust. Based on the accurate aftershock relocations, the shear wave splitting parameters are determined with the cross-correlation method, and the results of different stations and regions are discussed in this paper. These conclusions are obtained as follows： firstly, the average fast directions of aftershock region are controlled by the regional stress field and parallel to the maximum horizontal compressive stress direction; secondly, the average fast directions of disparate stations and regions are different and vary with the structural settings and regional stress fields; finally, delay time value is affected by all sorts of factors, which is affinitive with the shear wave propagating medium, especially.     

Study on shear wave splitting in the after- shock region of the Yao′an earthquake in 2000

Introduction Rock microcracks in the crust play very important roles in all kinds of geophysical phe-nomenon variation (Aki et al, 1970; Crampin et al, 1980). The medium anisotropy of the upper crust has been studied extensively, mostly based on analysis on shear wave splitting from local earthquakes. Commonly, explanation for the upper crust anisotropy is the assumed ″extensive di-latancy anisotropy″ (Crampin, 1978) or its modified version ″anisotropic poroelasticity″ (Crampin and Zatse…     

Variations in shear wave splitting during aftershocks of the Luquan earthquake in Yunnan Province

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