Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/101231
Title: Interseismic deformation and earthquake hazard along the southernmost longitudinal valley fault, eastern Taiwan
Authors: Chuang, Ray Y.
Shyu, J. Bruce H.
Rubin, Charles M.
Miller, M. Meghan
Chen, Yue-Gau
Chen, Horng-Yue
Yu, Shui-Beih
Sieh, Kerry
Chung, Ling-Ho
Issue Date: 2012
Source: Chuang, R. Y., Miller, M. M., Chen, Y.-G., Chen, H.-Y., Shyu, J. B. H., Yu, S.-B., et al. (2012). Interseismic deformation and earthquake hazard along the southernmost longitudinal valley fault, eastern Taiwan. Bulletin of the seismological society of America, 102(4), 1569-1582.
Series/Report no.: Bulletin of the seismological society of America
Abstract: About half of the 8  cm/yr of oblique convergence across the active convergent plate boundaries of Taiwan occurs in eastern Taiwan, across the Longitudinal Valley. Significant shortening and left‐lateral slip occurs across the Longitudinal Valley fault there, both as shallow fault creep and as seismogenic fault slip. The southernmost Longitudinal Valley fault comprises an eastern Peinan strand and a western Luyeh strand. We derive an interseismic block model for these two strands using data from a small‐aperture Global Positioning System (GPS) campaign and leveling. The model provides estimates of fault slip rates and quantifies slip partitioning between the two strands. A 45  mm/yr dip‐slip rate on the northern Peinan strand diminishes southward, whereas the left‐lateral component increases. In contrast, nearly pure dip‐slip motion of about 20  mm/yr on the southern Luyeh strand diminishes northward to about 8  mm/yr and picks up a component of left‐lateral motion of about 15  mm/yr before it dies out altogether at its northern terminus. The Luyeh and the northern Peinan strands record near‐surface creep, but the southern Peinan strand appears locked. The potential earthquake magnitude for the two strands may be as high as Mw 6.5. We anticipate seismic rupture mainly on the locked portion of the Peinan strand.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/101231
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/11145
DOI: 10.1785/0120110262
Rights: © 2012 Seismological Society of America.
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