Locating seismic scatterers at the base of the mantle beneath eastern Tibet with PKIKP precursors
- ISSN号:0023-074X
- 期刊名称:《科学通报》
- 时间:0
- 分类:P315.7[天文地球—地震学;天文地球—固体地球物理学;天文地球—地球物理学] Q958.575[生物学—动物学]
- 作者机构:[1]Laboratory of Computational Geodynamics, Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China, [2]Lanzhou Institute of Seismology, China Earthquake Administration, Lanzhou 730000, China, [3]Lanzhou Base oflnstitute of Earthquake Prediction, China Earthquake Administration, Lanzhou 730000, China
- 相关基金:The seismic waveform data are provided by Lanzhou observatory station, Zhang Shuzhen and Qin Manzhong gave more help in the collection of the records. Prof. Niu of Rice University revised the English manuscript. Ma Yanlu of GFZ and Cao Aimin of Berkeley University gave advices on the work. The data are processed by program Matseis of Sandia National Laboratories. Two anonymous reviewers provided thoughtful comments and suggestions which improved the manuscript. GMT [37] was used to plot Figures 4 and 5. The authors thank all of them. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 40574024) and the Basic R&D Fund of lnstitute of Earthquake Prediction, China Earthquake Administration (Grant No. 2009A19).
关键词:
地震前兆, 西藏东部, 下地幔, 散射, 定位, 地震台阵, 入射角度, 旅行时间, PKIKP precursors, scatterers, base of the mantle, Lanzhou CTBTO seismic array, Ancient Tethys
中文摘要:
清楚的 PKIKP 先锋从 Lanzhou CTBTO 地震数组被观察。我们测量了他们的事件角度,到达关于使用的 PKIKP 到达的方位角和微分旅行时间穿分析技术。这些大小允许我们定位产生了观察先锋的 scatterers。我们发现 scatterers 在东方西藏下面位于最低披风,它被一个高速度的异例基于以前的 tomographic 研究展示。高速度异例作为古老的 Tethys subduction 的平板残余被解释。我们因此推测观察 scatterers 由 subducted 平板相关或导致。
英文摘要:
Clear PKIKP precursors were observed from the Lanzhou CTBTO seismic array. We measured their incident angles, arriving azimuths and differential travel times with respect to the PKIKP arrivals using array analysis techniques. These measurements allowed us to locate the scatterers that generated the observed precursors. We found that the scatterers are located in the lower- most mantle beneath eastern Tibet, which is featured by a high-velocity anomaly based on previous tomographic studies. The high velocity anomaly was interpreted as the slab remnants of the ancient Tethys subduction. We thus speculate that the observed scatterers are either related or induced by the subducted slab.