Strain-geoelectric resistivity precursor and the virtual dislocation model to the Tangshan earthquake |
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Authors: | Yu-Lin Zhao Jun Lu Zheng-Nan Li Fu-Ye Qian and Hong-Kui Zhang |
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Institution: | (1) Institute of Geophysics, State Seismological Bureau, 100081 Beijing, China |
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Abstract: | The complete records of geoelectric resistivity before two earthquakes were analyzed, including 16 stations within 240 km
around the Tangshan earthquake and 2 stations within 50–60 km from theM6.1 Datong earthquake. By eliminating various disturbances in the records and realizing the precursory anomalies to be reliable,
the authors studied the distribution of the geoelectric precursor field, which proves to be physically related to the earthquake
source stress field. Comparision of the sign distribution of coseismic resistivity changes with the solution of earthquake
source mechanism indicates that, the coseismic resistivity changes are of opposite sign but similar spatial distribution with
respect to the corresponding resistivity precursor changes. Therefore, from the resistivity observations we are of the opinion
that the Tangshan earthquake is an elastic rebound process. A virtual dislocation model of geoelectric precursor for the Tangshan
earthquake is proposed, in which the geoelectric precursors are supposed to be caused by the strain accumulation due to a
virtual dislocation, which is opposite in sign to the actual slip taking place at the earthquake occurrence. Taking into account
of the non-linear characteristics of the amplification factorK=(Δρ/ρ)/ɛ in a range of 10−7–10−5 strain changes, the theoretical distribution of geoelectric precursors for the Tangshan earthquake was calculated based on
the theory of fracture mechanics and reasonably selected dislocation parameters. The results show that the semi-quantitative
theoretical values are in good agreement with the observed, suggesting that the virtual dislocation model of the geoelectric
precursor is appropriate to the Tangshan earthquake.
Contribution No. 96A0023, Institute of Geophysics, SSB, China.
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Science and Technology Department of SSB. |
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Keywords: | geoelectric resistivity elastic rebound coseismic effect virtual dislocation |
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