On May 12, 2008, the great Wenchuan earthquake occurred on the Longmen-shan belt, which is located at the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau, rupturing the Beichuan-Yingxiu and Guanxian-Jiangyou faults. We apply Yabuki&Matsu'ura's inversion method to estimate the co-seismic slip distribution of thhis earthquake from GPS data. The whole fault model is divided into four sub-faults during our inversion. Our results show that the slips caused by the great earthquake are characterized mainly by thrust motion near Yingxiu, the south segment of the Yingxiu-Beichuan fau the dextral components are apparently larger than thrust slips at the north segment of the fault. Our estimations agree well with the results of geologic survey and the characteristics of rupturing. The estimated slips have two high-slip concentrations up to 9. 6 m and 9. 3 m, located respectively near the Yingxiu town and Beichuan city, which suffered the greatest fatalities and structure damages during the earthquake. The total moment released by the great earthquake is about 8. 07×1020 N·m, corresponding to an earthquake with magnitude of Mw7. 9. Our study shows that Yabuki&Matsu'ura's inversion method is suitable to estimate the fault slip model in mainland China.%2008年5月12日,青藏高原东缘龙门山断裂带发生汶川Mw7.9地震,该地震使得北川—映秀断裂、灌县—江油断裂发生了同震破裂.本文主要利用震后通过复测获得的GPS同震形变场,采用Yabuki& Matsu'ura反演计算方法和分段平面断层模型,反演了地震同震滑动分布.结果表明:映秀—北川主破裂带的断层错动,在映秀附近以逆冲滑动为主,而在北川以北,其走滑运动明显大于逆冲,这一结果与震后地质调查结果与通过地震波研究获得的断层破裂特征相一致;反演得到的最大滑动量达到9.3m和9.6m,分别对应于这次地震中地表破坏最为严重的北川和映秀地区;由所获得的滑动分布计算的地震矩为8.07×1020 N·m,对应的震级为Mw7.9.研究结果初步显示,Yabuki& Matsu'ura反演方法可适用在内陆地震断层反演计算中.
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