doi:10.1016/S0040-1951(12)00801-3

Special Issue

“Active Tectonic Deformation of the Tibetan Plateau and Great Earthquakes ”

Guest Editors

Peizhen Zhang a, Robert Engdahl b

aState Key Laboratory of Earthquake Dynamics, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing 100029, ChinabDepartment of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA

CONTENTS

Great earthquakes in the 21st century and geodynamics of the Tibetan Plateau

P.-Z. Zhang and E.R. Engdahl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1A review on active tectonics and deep crustal processes of the Western Sichuan region, eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau

P.-Z. Zhang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Characteristics of the fault-related rocks, fault zones and the principal slip zone in the Wenchuan Earthquake Fault Scientific Drilling

Project Hole-1 (WFSD-1)

H. Li, H. Wang, Z. Xu, J. Si, J. Pei, T. Li, Y. Huang, S.-R. Song, L.-W. Kuo, Z. Sun, M.-L. Chevalier and D. Liu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23Regional stresses inferred from coseismic slip models of the 2008 Mw 7.9 Wenchuan, China, earthquake

L. Medina Luna and E. A. Hetland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43Variations in seismic velocity and attenuation associated with seismogenesis: A numerical verification using ambient noise

E. Rohrbach, L. Liu and L. Wang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54FEM simulation of interseismic and coseismic deformation associated with the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake

S. Zhu and P. Zhang. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64Paleoseismic events and recurrence interval along the Beichuan–Yingxiu fault of Longmenshan fault zone, Yingxiu, Sichuan, China

Y.-K. Ran, W.-S. Chen, X.-W. Xu, L.-C. Chen, H. Wang, C.-C. Yang and S.-P. Dong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81Paleoseismology and kinematic characteristics of the Xiaoyudong rupture, a short but significant strange segment characterized by the

May 12, 2008, Mw 7.9 earthquake in Sichuan, China

L.-c. Chen, Y.-k. Ran, H. Wang, X. Shi, R.-c. Liu and S.-p. Dong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91Late Holocene activity and historical earthquakes of the Qiongxi thrust fault system in the southern Longmen Shan fold-and-thrust belt,

eastern Tibetan Plateau

M. Wang, D. Jia, A. Lin, L. Shen, G. Rao and Y. Li . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102Historic seismicity near the source zone of the great 2008 Wenchuan earthquake: Implications for seismic hazards

W.-P. Chen and L. Hsu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114Coseismic deformation derived from analyses of C and L band SAR data and fault slip inversion of the YushuMs7.1 earthquake, China in 2010

C. Qu, G. Zhang, X. Shan, G. Zhang, X. Song and Y. Liu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119Rupture history of the 2010 Ms 7.1 Yushu earthquake by joint inversion of teleseismic data and InSAR measurements

G. Zhang, X. Shan, B. Delouis, C. Qu, J. Balestra, Z. Li, Y. Liu and G. Zhang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129Inter-seismic deformation field of the Ganzi-Yushu fault before the 2010 Mw 6.9 Yushu earthquake

Y. Wang, M. Wang, Z.-K. Shen, W. Ge, K. Wang, F. Wang and J. Sun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

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High-resolution seismic velocity structure and azimuthal anisotropy around the 2010 Ms=7.1 Yushu earthquake, Qinghai, China from 2D

tomography

S. Pei, Y. J. Chen, B. Feng, X. Gao and J. Su. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144Normal- and oblique-slip of the 2008 Yutian earthquake: Evidence for eastward block motion, northern Tibetan Plateau

X. Xu, X. Tan, G. Yu, G. Wu, W. Fang, J. Chen, H. Song and J. Shen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152Societal and observational problems in earthquake risk assessments and their delivery to those most at risk

R. Bilham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166Crustal structure of the central Qaidam basin imaged by seismic wide-angle reflection/refraction profiling

J. Zhao, Z. Jin, W.D. Mooney, N. Okaya, S. Wang, X. Gao, L. Tang, S. Pei, H. Liu and Q. Xu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174Crustal Structure of the Northeastern Tibetan Plateau from the Southern Tarim Basin to the Sichuan Basin, China

Y. Wang, W.D. Mooney, X. Yuan and N. Okaya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191Crustal and uppermost mantle S velocity structure under Hi-CLIMB seismic array in central Tibetan Plateau from joint inversion of surface

wave dispersion and receiver function data

Z.J. Xu, X. Song and L.i Zhu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209Crust–mantle coupling at the northern edge of the Tibetan plateau: Evidence from focal mechanisms and observations of seismic

anisotropy

V. Levin, G.-c.D. Huang and S. Roecker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221First local seismic tomography for Red River shear zone, northern Vietnam: Stepwise inversion employing crustal P and Pn waves

H.-H. Huang, Z.J. Xu, Y.-M. Wu, X. Song, B.-S. Huang and L.M. Nguyen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230Relative motion across the eastern Tibetan plateau: Contributions from faulting, internal strain and rotation rates

Z. Zhang, R. McCaffrey and P. Zhang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240Three-dimensional mechanical modeling of the GPS velocity field around the northeastern Tibetan plateau and surrounding regions

J. He, S. Lu and W. Wang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257Transformation of displacement between strike-slip and crustal shortening in the northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau: Evidence from

decadal GPS measurements and late Quaternary slip rates on faults

W.-j. Zheng, P.-z. Zhang, W.-g. He, D.-y. Yuan, Y.-x. Shao, D.-w. Zheng, W.-p. Ge and W. Min . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267Eocene onset and late Miocene acceleration of Cenozoic intracontinental extension in the North Qinling range–Weihe graben: Insights

from apatite fission track thermochronologyJ. Liu, P. Zhang, R.O. Lease, D. Zheng, J. Wan, W. Wang and H. Zhang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281