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JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES
卷 135, 期 -, 页码 198-211出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2016.12.029
关键词
Garhwal Himalaya; Seismotectonics; Small-to-moderate earthquakes; Mid-Crustal Ramp; Friction coefficient; Free fluids
资金
- Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun, India
- Ministry of Earth Science (MoES), New Delhi (Government of India)
- Garhwal Himalaya [MoES/P.0.(Seismo)/1(79)/2009]
The work presents new focal-mechanism data of small-to-moderate (3.0 >= M-L <= 5.0) upper crustal earthquakes for the Garhwal Himalaya from a local seismic network installed in July 2007. Majority of the epicenters of these earthquakes are located close to the Main Central Thrust (MCT) zone. We retrieved Moment Tensor (MT) solutions of 26 earthquakes by waveform inversion. The MT results and 11 small to-moderate earthquakes from the published records are used for stress inversions. The MT solutions reveal dominatingly thrust mechanisms with few strike slip earthquakes near Chamoli. The seismic cross sections illustrate that, these earthquakes are located around the Mid-Crustal-Ramp (MCR) in the detachment. The optimally oriented faults from stress inversions suggest that, the seismogenic fault in this region is similar to a fault plane having dip angle between 12 and 25 degrees, which is compatible with the dip angle of the MCR (similar to 16 degrees) in this region. P-axes and the maximum horizontal compressive stress are NE-SW oriented; the direction of the relative motion of Indian plate with respect to the Eurasian plate. The Friction Coefficient estimated from stress inversions show that the Chamoli region having low friction in comparison to the overall values. The free fluids trapped beneath the detachment are penetrating into the local faults, hence, decreasing the frictional strength and altering the prevailing stress conditions of the surroundings. The present study reveals that the MCR structure is seismogenically active and producing the small-moderate earthquakes in the region, while the MCT is probably dormant at present. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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