Abstract:

The fine crustal stress field plays an important role in geodynamics. The 2021 Yangbi earthquake sequence occurred in an area with densely deployed seismic stations. Before the mainshock, there occurred multiple 3-4 magnitude earthquakes. The mainshock was followed by strong aftershocks, M_S5.0 and M_S5.2, occurring 7 and 36 minutes later respectively. The earthquake sequence is a typical example of a “foreshock-mainshock-aftershock” earthquake sequence. The abundant seismic data of the 2021 Yangbi earthquake sequence provide many seismic focal mechanisms for the fine stress field analysis in the study region.

To study the relationship of the stress field, fault structure, and earthquake dynamics in the Yangbi earthquake source region, the central focal mechanism solution algorithm is selected for the earthquakes with several focal mechanisms to ensure the accuracy of the focal mechanism data, and 93 precisely determined focal mechanism data are determined. The overall stress field in the source region is determined as a compressive stress axis of nearly NS direction and extensional stress axis of nearly EW direction. Then, to reveal the heterogeneity of the stress field in the source region, according to the location of the earthquake sequence, the focal mechanism solutions are divided into 6 regions by using the moving window strategy and obtain the stress field in each sub-region. To verify the inversion results are not caused by the selection of a specific partition mode, we used two different partition methods to discuss the stress field inversion experiments: 1)change the number of sub-regions from 6 to 8, the number of focal mechanisms in each subregion is still 23, and moving the 15 focal mechanisms in each iteration; 2)the number of the sub-region is still 6, change the number of focal mechanism to 28 in each subregion. It can be found that although the different partition strategies are changed, the characteristics of the obtained stress field will not change. Finally, the earthquake dynamics revealed in the heterogeneous stress area are analyzed.

The results show that the compressive stress axis changed from NNW-SSE direction in the northwest of the Yangbi earthquake focal area to NNE-SSW direction in the southwest region, with the rotation angle of 23°; And the stress shape factor in the northwest part of the rupture zone is always larger than that in the southeast region. Combined with the geodynamics studies of crustal motion map, tomography from seismic data, hydrographic net distribution, and topography of the study region, it is speculated that the change of the stress field in the northwest and the southeast is caused by the combined action of the blocked southward movement of the material in the northern part of the fracture area and the NNE extension in the shallow part of the study area due to the low angle NNE subduction of the Indo-Burma arc. The horse-tail-like fault distribution in the southeast of the Yangbi earthquake fault zone and the mountain and river alignment around the Yangbi earthquake are consistent with the predicted stress deflection and stress shape factor change. These studies are of significance for understanding the characteristics of fault activity and earthquake dynamics in study regions.

Key words: The Yangbi 6.4 earthquake, Focal mechanism solution, Stress field inversion, Heterogeneity, Fault structure

摘要：

精细地壳应力场在地球动力学研究中具有至关重要的作用。2021年云南漾濞地震序列发生在地震观测台站密集分布的地区, 丰富的漾濞地震序列资料为该地区的精细应力场分析提供了大量地震震源机制解数据。为分析漾濞地震震源区的应力状态、 断层构造和地震动力学关系, 首先选择震源机制中心解算法对搜集到的漾濞地震序列震源机制解进行中心解求解, 以保证震源机制数据的准确性; 其次基于地震序列发生的位置, 采用移动窗方法将震源机制解划分为6个区域, 分别求解了6个区域的应力张量数据; 最后分析了非均匀应力场所揭示的动力学问题。研究结果表明: 漾濞地震震源区西北部和东南部的压应力轴方向由NNW-SSE向转换为NNE-SSW向, 偏转角度达23°, 且西北部的应力形因子大于东南部。推测西北部和东南部明显的应力场变化是由破裂区北部物质南移受阻和印缅弧深部NNE向低角度俯冲导致研究区浅部出现NNE向拉张联合作用所致。漾濞地震序列破裂东南区呈现马尾状散开的断层分布及山脉和水系走向在周围的分布均与本研究推测的应力偏转和应力形因子改变相符。这些研究对认识该地区的断裂活动特性和地震动力学具有一定意义。

关键词: 漾濞6.4级地震, 震源机制解, 应力场反演, 不均匀性, 断层结构