SUMMARY

Attempt to zoning and characterizing the active displacement of crustal materials in West Bắc Bộ based on the interaction between regional stress field and fault activities

Nguyễn Văn Vượng, Nguyễn Ngọc Thủy,
Vũ Văn Tích, Bùi Văn Duẩn

The determination of the nature of intraplate deformation and active displacement, that could take place along the major faults under the action of regional stress field, plays an important role in the zoning and forecasting earthquake, as well as related natural hazards. A new approach, which was recently developed in the field of earthquake prediction, has been applied to study fault activities in this paper. The approach is based on the evaluation and calculating relations between regional stress field with parameters that describe the geometry and kinematics of 15 fault segments within the West Bắc Bộ region. The calculation allows us to characterize the variation of stress in space and the relative displacement components along the NS, EW and vertical directions in the whole studied area with dimension of 300x300 km2 centered at Sơn La town. Predictable focal mechanisms have been also calculated for different localities along fault segments, as well as at any point located inside the area under investigation.

This research has demonstrated that this approach can be applied to solve the problem of zoning in detail and to predict natural hazards like earthquake as well as soil cracking in the country.

Ngày nhận bài: 30-7-2004

Người biên tập: Võ Năng Lạc