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DETERMINATION OF STRESS TENSOR BASED ON INVERSION OF EARTHQUAKE FOCAL MECHANISMS AND IMPLEMENTATION IN MAKRAN REGION

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  1-19

Abstract

 In this study after considering the importance of the stress filed and its applications in different branches of earth sciences, the focal mechanism stress inversion techniques were reviewed in a short way. Although the problem in hand was highly nonlinear, according to the benefits of the linear approaches some authors have tried to linearize the problem by making some extra assumptions in addition to the assumptions that all stress inversion methods share i.e. homogeneity of the STRESS TENSOR in the area or assuming the slip direction to be in the direction of maximum shear traction. Therefore two different approaches, linear and nonlinear methods were investigated in this study.Then two major methods from each division namely Michael (1984) from linear approaches and Lund and Slunga (1999) from the nonlinear ones, were selected and the main aspects of each method were shortly described without entering into details. After that each method was applied to a dataset from a previously studied and widely known area in California, United States of America, to ensure the validity of the results. The results from both methods showed good agreements with the expected results based on the successful studies in the area about the stress field performed by Angelier (1979).Some of the differences observed in the results from different methods are due to the way they make choice between the nodal plains. In Michael (1984) method this choice is being made during the bootstrap randomly, thus there is a similar chance for each nodal plane to be selected as a fault plane. This increases the ability of the method to deal with the noisy data. On the other hand Lund and Slunga (1999) method has the ability to select the fault plane based on two different methods which are slip angle and instability. The experience of using these methods shows that the Michael (1984) method generally gives an average orientation of the maximum horizontal stress that approximately occurs between the two methods introduced by Lund and Slunga (1999).Finally the methods were applied on a dataset from MAKRAN region which is placed both in Iran and Pakistan. The result of the stress inversion of all available data from MAKRAN was an average of the SHmax (maximum horizontal stress) directions in the area and therefore the dataset was divided into three different parts: western, central and eastern. The result showed an interesting variation in the maximum horizontal stress directions. Different methods used in this study showed a good agreement again and this led to the higher reliability of the stress directions in MAKRAN.These directions showed a variation which was acceptable according to the tectonic state of the region and also the previous studies in the region. In the western part of MAKRAN, the maximum horizontal stress orientation was 17.6±4, parallel to Zagros, and showed the effect of the continent-continent collision between Arabia and Eurasia plates. In Central MAKRAN, this direction showed a clockwise rotation and became 38.2±3. In the eastern part which is under the influence of the continent- continent collision between Indian and Eurasian plates, the direction was 157.0±4. Paying attention to these variations in stress states can be helpful to study the area especially in the western part of the MAKRAN subduction zone which is associated with lack of seismicity. The observed correlation of the variation in crustal stress and the seismicity agrees with the recent studies reporting a similar correlation between the seismicity and the upper mantle velocity variations obtained from surface wave tomography. It confirms the changing nature of the subducting slab stretched from west to east in MAKRAN subduction Zone.

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    POURBEYRANVAND, SHAHROKH, & SHOMALI, ZAHER HOSSEIN. (2012). DETERMINATION OF STRESS TENSOR BASED ON INVERSION OF EARTHQUAKE FOCAL MECHANISMS AND IMPLEMENTATION IN MAKRAN REGION. IRANIAN JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICS, 6(2), 1-19. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/133809/en

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    POURBEYRANVAND SHAHROKH, SHOMALI ZAHER HOSSEIN. DETERMINATION OF STRESS TENSOR BASED ON INVERSION OF EARTHQUAKE FOCAL MECHANISMS AND IMPLEMENTATION IN MAKRAN REGION. IRANIAN JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICS[Internet]. 2012;6(2):1-19. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/133809/en

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    SHAHROKH POURBEYRANVAND, and ZAHER HOSSEIN SHOMALI, “DETERMINATION OF STRESS TENSOR BASED ON INVERSION OF EARTHQUAKE FOCAL MECHANISMS AND IMPLEMENTATION IN MAKRAN REGION,” IRANIAN JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICS, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 1–19, 2012, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/133809/en

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