大地震为什么又发生在四川（Why the big earthquake happened in Sichuan）.docVIP

大地震为什么又发生在四川（Why the big earthquake happened in Sichuan） Looking for a map of China, take a look at the structure of Sichuan province. In the western mountainous area, middle basin -- this is probably our most intuitive impression of the the land of abundance. The angle of cut back to Sichuan has greatly small earthquake, if the location of the epicenter of the projection on the map, can be found in these locations -- roughly the earthquake, generally are ranked in the mountains in the west, and seem to be parallel to the mountain - basin boundary and linear distribution. As for the central part of the basin, although it is affected by earthquakes, there is seldom a direct epicentral area. After such a simple projection process, the first step can be deduced: the earthquake in Sichuan is related to the mountain in the west, the most closely related to the basin. This corollary from experience is simple, but in fact it has caught the essence of the problem. Because this is commonly known as the mountain topography, it is the famous Longmen Mountain Fault - it is a huge crust through the lithosphere fracture system, the North-South extension of 500 kilometers, 70 kilometers wide. Originally, the hard crust of the rock was almost indestructible, and it could have been so fractured and distorted that there must be some powerful force tearing it apart. Thus, scientists studied the stress field of rocks in the Longmen mountain fault zone and found that this strong stress did exist objectively, and that it came from a higher order in the Southwest -- the Qinghai Tibet plateau. Stress field analysis shows that the compressive stress from the Tibetan Plateau, then, why the Qinghai Tibet Plateau to provide so much stress field, it continuously oppress the eastern edge of the Sichuan basin, so that the formation of fault system in such a large forward? It turned out that the Qinghai Tibet Plateau is not the root cause, but it is still a result of the collision between the Indi