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Large Active Faults and the Wharton Basin Intraplate Earthquakes in the Eastern Indian Ocean

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摘要 In recent years,great earthquakes occurred within the Wharton Basin in the eastern Indian Ocean,and they have been associa-ted with active faulting on the ancient oceanic crust.Large seismogenic faults were thought to be the fault reactivation on the ancient oceanic crust,but these phenomena are still unclear and require examination.This study used high-quality multibeam bathymetry and multichannel seismic data collected over the northern Ninetyeast Ridge to investigate detailed fault geometry,structure,and activity.We recognized 12 large linear active faults by integrating bathymetry maps and multichannel seismic reflection profiles.Our results showed that these faults have high angles,and they all displaced the basement and propagated to the seafloor with distinct fault scarps.They trended NWW-SEE with a spacing of 10–40km and were parallel to each other and the nearby subfault of the 2012 great intraplate earthquake,suggesting similar stress fields.These faults are also in agreement with the orientations of magnetic isochrons,implying their formation by seafloor spreading.Furthermore,regarding the strike-slip focal mechanism of 2012 earthquakes,we proposed that these faults were created early by a normal spreading process and then evolved into a strike-slip pattern since the ancient oceanic crust ap-proached the subduction zones.
出处 《Journal of Ocean University of China》 SCIE CAS CSCD 2023年第6期1563-1571,共9页 中国海洋大学学报(英文版)
基金 supported by the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation (No. 2021B1515 020098) the Project of Science and Technology Department of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region to Chen J. (No. 2019AC17008) the Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou) (No. GML2019ZD0205) the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41890813) the Chinese Academy of Sciences Project (Nos. 133244KYSB20180029, 131551KYSB20200 021, Y4SL021001, QYZDY-SSW-DQC005, ISEE2021PY03, and E1SL3C02) the Development Fund of South China Sea Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. 202207) the Guangdong Provincial Research and Development Program in Key Areas (No. 2020B1111520001)
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