Late Holocene slip rate and average recurrence interval of great earthquakes on the Shangzhi segment of the Yilan-Yitong Fault Zone, northeastern China: Constraints from paleo-earthquakes and historical written records

Island Arc ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. e12231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhongyuan Yu ◽  
Peizhen Zhang ◽  
Wei Min ◽  
Qinghai Wei ◽  
Yugang Liu
Keyword(s):  
Fault Zone ◽  
Late Holocene ◽  
Slip Rate ◽  
Northeastern China ◽  
Recurrence Interval ◽  
Great Earthquakes

scholarly journals A 2600-year-long paleoseismic record for the Himalayan Main Frontal Thrust (western Bhutan)

Solid Earth ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 2359-2375
Author(s):  
Romain Le Roux-Mallouf ◽  
Matthieu Ferry ◽  
Rodolphe Cattin ◽  
Jean-François Ritz ◽  
Dowchu Drukpa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Late Holocene ◽  
Slip Rate ◽  
Large River ◽  
Recurrence Interval ◽  
Fault Propagation ◽  
Coseismic Slip ◽  
Alluvial Deposits ◽  
Fault Propagation Fold ◽  
Cumulative Deformation

Abstract. In spite of an increasing number of paleoseismic studies carried out over the last decade along the Himalayan Arc, the chronology of historical and prehistorical earthquakes is still poorly constrained. In this paper, we present geomorphologic and paleoseismic studies conducted over a large river-cut exposure along the Main Fontal Thrust in southwestern Bhutan. The Piping site reveals a 30 m high fault-propagation fold deforming late Holocene alluvial deposits. There, we carried out detailed paleoseismic investigations and built a chronological framework on the basis of 22 detrital charcoal samples submitted to radiocarbon dating. Our analysis reveals the occurrence of at least five large and great earthquakes between 485±125 BCE and 1714 CE with an average recurrence interval of 550±211 years. Coseismic slip values for most events reach at least 12 m and suggest associated magnitudes are in the range of Mw 8.5–9. The cumulative deformation yields an average slip rate of 24.9±10.4 mm yr−1 along the Main Frontal Thrust over the last 2600 years, in agreement with geodetic and geomorphological results obtained nearby.

scholarly journals Paleoseismology of great earthquakes of the late Holocene

1993 ◽  
Vol 36 (3-4) ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Pantosti ◽  
R. S. Yeats
Keyword(s):  
Late Holocene ◽  
Great Earthquakes

scholarly journals Supplemental Material: Quaternary slip rates on the White Mountains fault zone, eastern California: Implications for comparing geologic to geodetic slip rates across the Walker Lane

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zachery M. Lifton
Keyword(s):  
Fault Zone ◽  
Depth Profile ◽  
Slip Rate ◽  
White Mountains ◽  
Slip Rates ◽  
Walker Lane ◽  
Profile Modeling

Field photographs, stratigraphic columns, displacement modeling results, depth profile modeling results, and slip rate modeling results.

scholarly journals Supplemental Material: Quaternary slip rates on the White Mountains fault zone, eastern California: Implications for comparing geologic to geodetic slip rates across the Walker Lane

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zachery M. Lifton
Keyword(s):  
Fault Zone ◽  
Depth Profile ◽  
Slip Rate ◽  
White Mountains ◽  
Slip Rates ◽  
Walker Lane ◽  
Profile Modeling

Field photographs, stratigraphic columns, displacement modeling results, depth profile modeling results, and slip rate modeling results.

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