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Illuminating the spatio-temporal evolution of the 2008–2009 Qaidam earthquake sequence with the joint use of Insar time series and teleseismic data / Simon Daout in Remote sensing, vol 12 n° 17 (September-1 2020)  

Public [article]  inRemote sensing > vol 12 n° 17 (September-1 2020) . - 23 p. Titre : Illuminating the spatio-temporal evolution of the 2008–2009 Qaidam earthquake sequence with the joint use of Insar time series and teleseismic data Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Simon Daout, Auteur ; Andreas Steinberg, Auteur ; Marius Paul Isken, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2020 Article en page(s) : 23 p. Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Traitement d'image radar et applications [Termes IGN] analyse spatio-temporelle [Termes IGN] données géodésiques [Termes IGN] faille géologique [Termes IGN] image Envisat [Termes IGN] image radar moirée [Termes IGN] inférence [Termes IGN] interféromètrie par radar à antenne synthétique [Termes IGN] séisme [Termes IGN] série temporelle [Termes IGN] sismologie [Termes IGN] Tsinghai (Chine) Résumé : (auteur) Inferring the geometry and evolution of an earthquake sequence is crucial to understand how fault systems are segmented and interact. However, structural geological models are often poorly constrained in remote areas and fault inference is an ill-posed problem with a reliability that depends on many factors. Here, we investigate the geometry of the Mw 6.3 2008 and 2009 Qaidam earthquakes, in northeast Tibet, by combining InSAR time series and teleseismic data. We conduct a multi-array back-projection analysis from broadband teleseismic data and process three overlapping Envisat tracks covering the two earthquakes to extract the spatio-temporal evolution of seismic ruptures. We then integrate both geodetic and seismological data into a self-consistent kinematic model of the earthquake sequence. Our results constrain the depth and along-strike segmentation of the thrust-faulting sequence. The 2008 earthquake ruptured a ∼32° north-dipping fault that roots under the Olongbulak pop-up structure at ∼12 km depth and fault slip evolved post-seismically in a downdip direction. The 2009 earthquake ruptured three south-dipping high-angle thrusts and propagated from ∼9 km depth to the surface and bilaterally along the south-dipping segmented 55–75° high-angle faults of the Olonbulak pop-up structure that displace basin deformed sedimentary sequences above Paleozoic bedrock. Our analysis reveals that the inclusion of the post-seismic afterslip into modelling is beneficial in the determination of fault geometry, while teleseismic back-projection appears to be a robust tool for identifying rupture segmentation for moderate-sized earthquakes. These findings support the hypothesis that the Qilian Shan is expanding southward along a low-angle décollement that partitions the oblique convergence along multiple flower and pop-up structures. Numéro de notice : A2020-599 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : IMAGERIE Nature : Article DOI : 10.3390/rs12172850 Date de publication en ligne : 02/09/2020 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12172850 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=95947 [article]