Relocating ruptures of two M6 earthquakes in Zhongba, South-central Tibet in 2004 and 2005 with seismological and geodetic methods

作     者：Feng Bao Yingjie Zha Zhenjie Wang 

作者机构：Mengcheng National Geophysical Observatory School of Earth and Space Sciences University of Science and Technology of China Hefei 230026 China 

出 版 物：《Earthquake Science》 (地震学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2011年第24卷第2期

页      面：229-237页

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学科分类：070801[理学-固体地球物理学] 07[理学] 0708[理学-地球物理学] 

基　　金：supported jointly by Joint Seismological Science Foundation of China (Nos.200808078 and 200708035) 

主　　题：rupture zone overlapping Zhongba earthquake sequences earthquake doublets master event relative location InSAR 

摘      要：To better understand repeatability of strong earthquakes in previously ruptured zones during one seismogenic period, we studied the rupture zones of the doublet of M6 earthquakes in Zhongba region of southcentral Tibet, China, in 11 July 2004 and 7 April 2005, respectively. We focused on the overlapping degree of two strong quakes’ aftershock areas one week after the mainshocks by using the SQH station in China Seismic Network and a 68-stations temporary broadband seismic array, a part of the international HI-CLIMB project. About 115 local earthquakes were recorded in one week after the mainquakes, and we located these earthquakes by master event relative location （MERL） method. We also used this method to relocate 31 other M3.7 ＋ earthquakes from 1 July 2004 to 1 July 2005. Meanwhile, we studied two mainshocks’ coseismic ruptures with satellite interferometric synthetic aperture radar （InSAR）. Our results show that the ruptured zones of the two earthquakes do not overlapp substantially, either from early aftershock data or from InSAR inversions.