Jia JIA, Fuyun WANG, Qiaoxia LIU, Yonghong DUAN, Zhenyu FAN, Hongwei WANG, Zhanyong GAO
The first arrival travel times of a deep reflection profile, approximately 30 km long, implemented along the northwest-southeast direction across the northern segment of the Tangshan fault in 2023 were inverted to obtain a detailed shallow velocity structure profile in the northern part of Tangshan. The velocity structure profile reveals that from 2.5 to 8.5 km along the survey line, the Cenozoic Era sediments are about 150 m thick and relatively uniform. The Fengtai-Yejituo fault is hidden at the survey line coordinate of 3.5 km, trending northwest, and F2-1 fault is hidden at 8.5 km, trending southeast; there is a hidden bulge between these two faults that is low in the northwest and high in the southeast. From 8.5 to 15.2 km along the survey line, the Cenozoic Era sediments gradually thicken from northwest to southeast, with a maximum thickness of about 250 m, indicating that the Jinggezhuang depression is a gull-shaped Cenozoic fault depression. The Douhe fault is exposed at 15.2 km, trending northwest. From 15.2 to 24 km along the survey line, it is the Tangshan uplift, with only local areas having very thin Cenozoic Era sediments, and the P-wave velocity at the same depth is much higher than on both sides; there is a nearly vertical low-velocity zone under Weishan, extending at least 600 m downward, which is speculated to be the fault zone of the Tangshan-Weishan-Changshan south slope fault belt. From the survey line coordinate of 24 km to the end of the survey line, it is the northwestern part of the Kaiping depression, showing a regular basin edge morphology, with Cenozoic Era sediments of about 130 m. The Douhe fault and the Tangshan-Weishan-Changshan fault are active faults of the Quaternary.