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SCIENCE CHINA-EARTH SCIENCES
Volume 65, Issue 4, Pages 687-697Publisher
SCIENCE PRESS
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-021-9868-9
Keywords
The 2021 Maduo earthquake; 3-D displacements; SM-VCE; SAR; Coseismic strain field
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Funding
- National Key Basic Research and Development Program of China [2018YFC1503603]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [42030112]
- Nature Science Foundation of Hunan Province [2020JJ2043]
- Project of Innovation-driven Plan of Central South University [2019CX007]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of Central South University [2018zzts684, 2019zzts011]
- Hunan Provincial Innovation Foundation For Postgraduate [CX20190067]
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In this study, the three-dimensional coseismic displacements of the earthquake that occurred in Maduo county, Qinghai Province, China were derived using satellite remote sensing data. The results showed that the earthquake was dominated by left-lateral fault slip with a maximum horizontal displacement of up to 2.4 m. The accuracy of the displacement observations was significantly improved using specific methods. In addition, the strain model calculation revealed that the eastern and western parts of the faults experienced more significant strains.
On 22nd May 2021 (local time), an earthquake of M(s)7.4 struck Maduo county in Qinghai Province, China. This was the largest earthquake in China since the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. In this study, ascending/descending Sentinel-1 and advanced land observation satellite-2 (ALOS-2) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images were used to derive the three-dimensional (3-D) coseismic displacements of this earthquake. We used the differential interferometric SAR (InSAR, DInSAR), pixel offset-tracking (POT), multiple aperture InSAR (MAI), and burst overlap interferometry (BOI) methods to derive the displacement observations along the line-of-sight (LOS) and azimuth directions. To accurately mitigate the effect of ionospheric delay on the ALOS-2 DInSAR observations, a polynomial fitting method was proposed to optimize range-spectrum-split-derived ionospheric phases. In addition, the 3-D displacement field was obtained by a strain model and variance component estimation (SM-VCE) method based on the high-quality SAR displacement observations. Results indicated that a left-lateral fault slip with the largest horizontal displacement of up to 2.4 m dominated this earthquake, and the small-magnitude vertical displacement with an alternating uplift/subsidence pattern along the fault trace was more concentrated in the near-fault regions. Comparison with the global navigation satellite system data indicated that the SM-VCE method can significantly improve the accuracy of the displacements compared to the classical weighted least squares method, and the incorporation of the BOI displacements can substantially benefit the accuracy of north-south displacement. In addition to the displacements, three coseismic strain invariants calculated based on the strain model parameters were also investigated. It was found that the eastern and western parts of the faults suffered more significant strains compared with the epicenter region.
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