日本地球惑星科学連合2019年大会

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[M-IS04] Interdisciplinary studies on pre-earthquake processes

2019年5月30日(木) 17:15 〜 18:30 ポスター会場 (幕張メッセ国際展示場 8ホール)

コンビーナ:服部 克巳(千葉大学大学院理学研究科)、劉 正彦(国立中央大学太空科学研究所)、Ouzounov Dimitar(Center of Excellence in Earth Systems Modeling & Observations (CEESMO) , Schmid College of Science & Technology Chapman University, Orange, California, USA)、Qinghua Huang(Peking University)

[MIS04-P08] Seismicity change and b value variation prior to the Wenchuan earthquake (Ms 8.0)

*Peng Han1Rui Wang1Ying Chang1Miao Miao1Haixia Shi2Lingyuan Meng2Xuemei Zhang2Weiyun Xie3Katsumi Hattori3 (1.Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China、2.China Earthquake Networks Center, Beijing 100045, China、3.Chiba University, Chiba, Japan)

キーワード:Wenchuan earthquake, b value, seismicity

The Gutenberg-Richter Law describes frequency-magnitude distribution of earthquakes. A number of studies have shown that the slope (b value) of the relationship between frequency and magnitude decreased before large earthquakes. Based on the analysis of the earthquake catalog from January, 2000 to April, 2008, we have investigated seismicity change and b value variation prior to the Ms 8.0 Wenchuan earthquake. The results show clear drops of both monthly and quarterly frequency of earthquakes during 2005-2006. The b value exhibits a long-term decrease trend since 2002, and reaches to the minimum just before the onset of the main shock. The temporal variation of b value is quite similar to that prior to the Mw 9.0 Tohoku earthquake in Japan, which may reflect the stress evolution during the preparation process of large earthquakes. These results indicate that the b value is an important indicator of an impending great earthquake, and has high potential in terms of predicting a future large quake.