Spatial Slip Rate Distribution Along the SE Xianshuihe Fault, Eastern Tibet, and Earthquake Hazard Assessment

Tectonics - Tập 40 Số 11 - 2021
Mingkun Bai1,2, Marie‐Luce Chevalier1,3, Philippe Hervé Leloup4, Haibing Li1,3, Jiawei Pan1,3, Anne Replumaz5, Shiguang Wang1,6, Kaiyu Li1, Qiong Wu1, Fucai Liu1, Jinjiang Zhang2
1Key Laboratory of Deep-Earth Dynamics of Ministry of Natural Resources, Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing, China
2Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Orogenic Belts and Crustal Evolution, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
3Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China
4Laboratoire de géologie de Lyon CNRS Université de Lyon Villeurbanne France
5ISTerre, Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble, France
6National Institute of Natural Hazards, Ministry of Emergency Management of China, Beijing, China

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Abstract

The Xianshuihe (XSH) fault in eastern Tibet is one of the most active faults in China, with the next large earthquake most likely to occur along its SE part, where the fault splits into three parallel branches: Yalahe, Selaha and Zheduotang (ZDT). Precisely quantifying their slip rates at various timescales is essential to evaluate regional earthquake hazard. Here, we expand our previous work on the Selaha fault to the nearby ZDT and Moxi (MX) faults, and add observations on the Yalahe fault and on the newly discovered Mugecuo South fault zone. Using tectonic‐geomorphology approaches with10Be dating, we had previously determined average late Quaternary slip rates of 9.75 ± 0.15 and 4.4 ± 0.5 mm/yr along the NW and SE Selaha fault, respectively. Using the same methods here, we determine a slip rate of 3.4–4.8 mm/yr on the ZDT fault and of 9.6–13.4 mm/yr on the MX fault. This is consistent with the southeastward slip rate increase we had proposed along the XSH fault system from 6‐8 mm/yr (Ganzi fault) to ∼10 mm/yr (Selaha fault), and >9.6 mm/yr (MX fault). We propose a new model for the SE XSH fault, where the large‐scale Mugecuo pull‐apart basin lies within an even larger scale compressive uplift zone in a restraining bend of the XSH fault, where the highest peak in eastern Tibet is located (Gongga Shan, 7,556 m). Our slip rate determination helps to constrain a relatively high regional Mw ∼ 7 earthquake hazard at present on the SE XSH fault.

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