Real-time drilling mud gas monitoring records seismic damage zone from the 2008 Mw 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake》.pdf

Tectonophysics 639 (2015) 109–117 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Tectonophysics journal homepage: /locate/tecto Real-time drilling mud gas monitoring records seismic damage zone from the 2008 Mw 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake Zheng Gong a,b, Haibing Li a,b,⁎, Changling Lao c,d, Lijun Tang c, Liqiang Luo c a Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing 100037, China b State Key Laboratory for Continental Tectonics and Dynamics, Beijing 100037, China c National Research Centre for Geoanalysis, No. 26, Baiwanzhuang Road, Beijing, 100037, China d China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, China a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: We investigate the drilling mud gas from 70 m to 1200 m borehole depth of the Wenchuan earthquake Fault Sci- Received 28 July 2014 entific Drilling Hole-1 (WFSD-1) in the context of rapid response fault zone drilling to large earthquakes. Com- Received in revised form 28 October 2014 plete depth profiles are accomplished for CH , He, H , CO , N , Ar, O and N /Ar. 222Rn is also available for a 4 2 2 2 2 2 Accepted 13 November 2014 limited depth. The volcanic hanging wall generates high Rn and He, whereas the CH4 is low. The sedimentary Available online 26 November 2014 footwall yields higher CH and CO , wi