Applying InSAR technique to accurately relocate the epicentre for the 1999 Ms = 5.6 Kuqa earthquake in Xinjiang province, China

Details Applying InSAR technique to accurately relocate the epicentre for the 1999 Ms = 5.6 Kuqa earthquake in Xinjiang province, China Applying InSAR technique to accurately relocate the epicentre for the 1999 Ms = 5.6 Kuqa earthquake in Xinjiang province, China

Jan 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009geoji.176..107z&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Journal International, Volume 176, Issue 4, pp. 107-112.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Satellite Geodesy, Radar Interferometry, Earthquake Source Observations, Asia

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The 1999 Ms = 5.6 Kuqa earthquake occurred in a seismically active belt between the Tianshan Mountain and the Traim basin. Because of the sparse seismic network and complex crustal structure, it is very difficult to accurately locate the epicentre for this event using seismic waves. The epicentres located by different research groups vary over a spatial range of 20-40km. Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) is a geodetic technique with fine spatial resolution, good precision and wide coverage. An interferometric map of the epicentral region constrains the epicentre of this event.
The arid climate and sparsely vegetation in the Kuqa region provide excellent conditions for InSAR studies. In this paper, we firstly construct a interferogram to map the coseismic deformation field due to the 1999 Kuqa earthquake using a coseismic interferometric pair of radar images acquired by the ESA ERS-2 satellite. Then, we develop a new geocoding method and apply it to the interferogram. Next, we infer the geometry of the seismogenic fault according to its focal mechanism and tectonic setting. To model the interferogram, we assume a dislocation buried in a uniform elastic half-space. Finally, we infer the epicentre of this earthquake to be located at (82.80°E, 41.92°N), which is close to the results of the National Earthquake Information Center of USGS and China Earthquake Administration. The epicentre location inferred from InSAR falls in the six-level isoseismal contour described by Xinjiang earthquake administration using the field investigations.

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