TIAN Youping, WAN Yongge, SHAO Lei, SHEN Ping, TANG Hongliang, ZHANG Yimei, ZHANG Enhui, KANG Chengxu, SHE Xuming
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Accepted: 2024-07-04
Using seismic data of Jianghan-Dongting basin and its surrounding areas from historical records to 2021 to analyze the spatiotemporal distribution characteristics of earthquakes, we obtain the relationship between deep tectonics and earthquakes by using the hypoDD algorithm to relocate 788 earthquakes, and analyze the characteristics of tectonic stress field by using the P-wave first motion method to calculate the focal mechanism solutions of ML≥2.8 earthquakes. The results show that earthquakes are distributed unevenly in space, the seismicity of basin boundary is stronger than that inside basin, and there is an obvious periodic rule of alternating quiet and active in time. The relocated earthquakes are distributed in clusters in NW and NE directions in Ningxiang, Shimen, Yuanan-Dangyang, Nanzhang- Jingmen, and Ezhou-Huangshi, and the seismogenesis of this five regions are closely related to fault tectonic activity. The type of focal mechanism solution is mainly thrust fault, the dominant orientation of P-axis is nearly EW, and its plunge angle is almost horizontal, the orientation of T-axis is mainly SN and NE, and its plunge angle is large. The horizontal collision between the Indian ocean plate and the Eurasian plate result in the formation of a nearly EW tension stress field in the Tibetan plateau, which pushes the basin eastward. In addition, the Philippine sea plate subducts northwestward and the Pacific plate subducts westward, resulting in the formation of a nearly EW compression stress field in the basin, which make the regional fault structure prone to vertical differential movement, and then led to the gestation and occurrence of earthquakes in the Jianghan-Dongting basin and its surrounding areas.