简介:Withtheimprovementofseismicobservationsystem,moreandmoreobservationsindicatethatearthquakesmaycauseseismicvelocitychange.However,theamplitudeandspatialdistributionofthevelocityvariationremainsacontroversialissue.RecentactivesourcemonitoringcarriedoutadjacenttoWenchuanFaultScientificDrilling(WFSD)revealedunambiguouscoseismicvelocitychangeassociatedwithalocalMs5.5earthquake.Here,wecarryoutforwardmodelingusingtwo-dimensionalspectralelementmethodtofurtherinvestigatetheamplitudeandspatialdistributionofobservedvelocitychange.ThemodeliswellconstrainedbyresultsfromseismicreflectionandWFSDcoring.Ourmodelstronglysuggeststhattheobservedcoseismicvelocitychangeislocalizedwithinthefaultzonewithwidthof*120mratherthandynamicstronggroundshaking.Andavelocitydecreaseof*2.0%withinthefaultzoneisrequiredtofittheobservedtraveltimedelaydistribution,whichcoincideswithrockmechanicalexperimentandtheoreticalmodeling.
简介:IntroductionRegionalseismicitytriggeredbybigearthquakesaswellasattershocksinsourcezonecouldbedetectedduetothehighseismicmonitoringcapabilitytoday(Anderson,etal,1994;Bodin,Gomberg,1994;Caskey,Wesnousky,1997;Deng,Sykes,1996;Hill,etal,1993;King,etal,19...