The MT inversion for conductivity anisotropy and EDA precursor, stress field and deformation band in the Earth’s deep crust

The conductivity anisotropy behaviour is described for certain environment in the Earth’s crust and the MT inversion method for a layered symmetrically anisotropic model is presented. The inversion interpretations of the anisotropic model from the observational data are helpful to identify the earthquake precusors as indicated by the deep conductivity anisotropic variations, and also provide some useful information to investigate the stress states and deformation bands in the deep crust of the Earth. This project is sponsored by the Chinese Joint Seismological Science Foundation.