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Rupture directivity of the August 3rd, 2014 Ludian earthquake (Yunan, China).
- Source :
- SCIENCE CHINA Earth Sciences; May2015, Vol. 58 Issue 5, p795-804, 10p
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- An M6.5 earthquake occurred on August 3rd, 2014 in Ludian of Yunnan Province in China, causing severe casualty and economic loss. Local broadband waveform inversion with the CAP method demonstrates that the earthquake is a strike-slip event, with the strike along 70° and 160° for the two nodal planes respectively. However, the geological structure in the epicentral region is complicated with abundant active faults, and it is challenging to identify the seismogenic fault with the focal plane solutions due to nodal-plane ambiguity. We resolved the rupture directivity by measuring the difference between centroid location and hypocenter of the Ludian earthquake with the time shift from CAP inversion, and found that the nodal plane with the strike of 160° is the ruptured fault plane. Moreover, the rupture is found to propagate from northwest to southeast. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- SURFACE fault ruptures
EARTHQUAKES
WAVE analysis
NODAL planes
ECONOMICS
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 16747313
- Volume :
- 58
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- SCIENCE CHINA Earth Sciences
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 102426006
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-015-5053-2