台湾地震地质研究-台湾西南部活断层研究-台湾西南部活断层的大地.PDF

行 精 類 行 年年 行 立 參理 理 理 論 理 年 了 歷 裂 陸列北 錄里 里 5~15 里 裂 陸 類 來 Abstract Based on tectonic and crustal deformation analyses, we surmised that the area near the deformation front of southwestern Taiwan orogen has the highest potentiality for active faulting. Besides the known active faults at the surface, this area might also have blind faults buried in the subsurface. Since many historical disastrous earthquakes were not associated with obvious surface faults, the deep blind faults might be the trigger for these earthquakes and hence require due attention. The basement of the southwestern Taiwan orogen and its foreland pertains to the extensional China continental margin that is characterized by a series of northeast- to east-trending normal faults. During the collision, these normal faults are unlikely to continue moving but offer inherited weak zones the can be transformed into reverse or strike-slip faults. In the past, some well documented earthquakes characterized by both strike-slip and reverse faulting, including Hsinhua, Meishan, Chiali, Rueyli and Tapu Earthquakes, exhibit fault planes that are not consistent with surface faults by are either conformable or even connected with the subsurface normal faults of the neighboring continental basement. This shows that these large earthquakes might well have been induced by the reactivated normal faults and calls into attention the potentiality of the deep blind faults as the sourc