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›› 2005, Vol. 22 ›› Issue (3): 286-291.DOI: 10.7523/j.issn.2095-6134.2005.3.005

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Accelerating Strain Release before Strong Earthquakes:More Complex in the Real World

JIANG Chang-Sheng1, WU Zhong-Liang1,2   

  1. 1. Institute of Geophysics, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing 100081, China;
    2. Laboratory of computational Geodynamics, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • Received:2004-07-15 Revised:2004-10-18 Online:2005-05-15

Abstract:

Considering different spatial and temporal ranges for the same earthquake,we investigate the objectivity and generality of the phenomenon of accelerating strain release before stmng earthquakes. A systematic analysis of all the earthquakes which occurred in China with Ms≥7.0 from 1990 to 2003 is conducted. It is found that the real seismic activity seems much more complex than the simple pattern as described by the accelerating strain release model.Therefore,the potentials of application of accelerating strain release model to the estimation of seismic hazard are in need of future investigation.

Key words: Benioff strain, accelerating strain release, critical-point-like model of earthquakes

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