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ISSN 2096-7780 CN 10-1665/P

基于地表真实位置的不同地震目录的精度分析:以中国西南地区若干个5级左右的地震为例

Accuracy Analysis of Various Earthquake Catalogs Based on Ground Truth Locations: Several M5 Earthquakes in the Southwest Region of China

  • 摘要: 准确的震中位置对于评估地震灾害及风险、研究地震活动性和地球内部结构等问题具有重要意义。目前,国内外多家机构例行发布地震目录,提供了震中位置等关键信息。然而在地震定位过程中使用的台站数据、壳幔速度结构模型和地震定位方法等不同,地震目录报告的震中位置会出现一定差异。而InSAR资料具有较高的空间分辨率,对浅源地震的位置约束较好,可以提供地表真实位置(ground truth,GT),为评估地震目录定位精度提供关键的依据。本文在我国西南地区选取了一系列同时被地震波和InSAR资料记录到的5级左右的地震事件,比较地震目录与InSAR确定的震中差异,评估CENC、USGS/NEIC地震目录在该区域报告的震中位置准确性。分析结果显示:CENC地震目录与InSAR震中的最大差异为12 km,经向差异为0.04°~0.13°,纬向差异略小,为0.05°~0.06°;USGS的差异为20 km,经向纬向差异分别为−0.13°~0.21°和−0.08°~0.10°。对于多数地震事件,CENC目录报告的震中位置更为准确,但是对于个别地震事件,CENC给出的位置偏离InSAR结果较大,可能与台站分布等因素有关。

     

    Abstract: Accurate epicenter location is crucial for assessing seismic hazards and risks, investigating seismicity, and exploring the Earth's internal structure. Numerous global institutions routinely release earthquake catalogs, providing the earthquake source parameters such as epicenter locations. Nonetheless, disparities in epicenter locations reported by these catalogs can arise due to the variation in seismic station data, crust-mantle velocity models, and earthquake localization methodologies employed. InSAR data, characterized by its high spatial resolution, provides reasonable positional constraints on shallow earthquakes, offering ground truth (GT) and serving as a key basis for evaluating the accuracy of earthquake epicenter locations. This study selected a series of earthquakes of approximately magnitude 5 in Southwestern China, recorded by seismological and InSAR data. The discrepancies between the epicenter determinations of earthquake catalogs and InSAR measurements were compared to assess the accuracy of the China Earthquake Network Center (CENC) and USGS/NEIC catalogs in this specific region. The results indicate that the most significant discrepancy between the CENC catalog and InSAR-derived epicenters is 12 km, with longitudinal differences ranging from 0.04° to 0.13° and a marginally smaller latitudinal variance of 0.05° to 0.06°. In comparison, the maximum difference between the USGS earthquake catalog and InSAR epicenters is 20 km, with a longitudinal and latitudinal difference of −0.13°~0.21° and −0.08°~0.10°, respectively. The CENC catalog provided more accurate epicenter locations for most of the earthquake events; however, for individual events, the epicenter locations given by CENC deviate from the InSAR results by a significant amount, which may be attributed to the distribution of seismic stations, among other factors.

     

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