CRUSTAL STRUCTURES AND TECTONICS OF TANGSHAN EARTHQUAKE AREA:RESULTS FROM DEEP SEISMIC REFLECTION PROFILING

On July 28,1976,the great Tangshan earthquake(M7.8)occurred in the Tangshan area of Hebei Province,which shocked the whole world.Before this earthquake,there was no earthquake with magnitude over M7.0 in this area.After this earthquake,the crustal structures and tectonics around Tangshan earthquake area remain unclear.In order to investigate the fine crustal structures,the main fault geometries and the relations between the deep-shallow tectonics in this area,a deep seismic reflection profiling with 40m receiver spacing and 200m shot spacing as well as 60-fold across the Tangshan Fault zone was carried out in the Fengnan region of Tangshan in 2009.Because our results have much higher spatial resolution than that of previous results of deep geophysical prospecting,some new features of the crustal structures and fault tectonics were revealed by this study.The results show that the thickness of the crust is about 32～34km along the profile,the Moho gradually deepens from east to west.Between Fengnan county and Xuanzhuang town,the reflections in the middle-lower crust and crust-mantle transitional zone are staggered by the deep Tangshan Fault,and dislocation occurs on the Moho on both sides of the deep fault,indicating the strike-slip effect of the deep Tangshan Fault.Tangshan Fault belt revealed by deep seismic reflection profile is a huge intra-continental strike-slip fault,and its shallow part appears as a typical flower-shaped structure,incising and disturbing the lower crust and crust-mantle transitional zone in the deep part.The complex faults and structures coexisting in both deep and shallow parts of the crust are the tectonic background for the Tangshan Earthquake,and also an important factor controlling the earthquake activity in the area.Tangshan earthquake area,deep seismic reflection profiling,fine crustal structure,flower-shaped structure,deep-shallow tectonic relations DEEP STRUCTURE IN SHIJIAZHUANG AND THE VICINITY BY MAGNETOTELLURICS ZHAN YanZHAO Guo-zeWANG Li-fengWANG Ji-junXIAO Qi-bin(Institute of Geology,China Earthquake Administration,Beijing100029,China) The Shijiazhuang City in Hebei Province lies at the junction between the Taihangshan uplift in the west and the Jizhong depression of North China in the east,abutting the front-range fault zone of the Taihangshan in the west.The Xingtai M7.2 earthquake of March 1966 occurred southeast to this area.In October 2010,a broadband magnetelluric(MT)survey was conducted in the Shijiazhuang City and adjacent regions to probe the deep structure.The 167km-long MT profile began from the Niangziguan town,extended southeastward through southern Shijiazhuang City,and terminated at Wangchang town of Jixian county.MT data were collected at 64 sites along this profile.In MT data processing,in addition to the remote reference and robust techniques,the multi-point and multi-frequency tensor decomposition was employed to determine the regional electric strike,and the NLCG 2D inversion was performed on TE and TM data.The result shows that a combination of an east-dipping low-angle normal fault in the shallow subsurface and a steep electric boundary at depth characterizes the deep structure beneath the study area.The electric structures in the shallow crust(above 10km)and deep crust(below 10km)seem to be independent.The Jinxian Fault and Xinhe Fault extend to a depth of less than～7km.High conductivity layer(HCL) is present below the depth of 10km between the front-range fault zone of the Taihangshan and the Xinhe Fault.There is a low resistivity boundary zone below the HCL and it cuts through the Moho.The hypocenter of the 1966 Xingtai Baichikou strong aftershock is located at the linkage between Xinhe Fault and deep electrical boundary,and on its top is a high resistance body and below it is the high conductivity layer(HCL).The HCL and the deep low resistivity boundary zone below the HCL are a channel of deep thermal upwelling and elastic energy migration.The 1966 Xingtai earthquake swarm is closely related to the deep material damping.