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In-situ stress at the northern portion of the Chelungpu fault, Taiwan, estimated on boring cores recovered from a 2-km-deep hole of TCDP

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We have investigated the depth variation in the stress state at the northern part of the Chelungpu fault, Taiwan, which slipped during the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake (Mw 7.6). In-situ stress around the fault was estimated based on the stress memory of rocks recovered from five depths (739–1316 m) of a 2-km-deep-hole. The borehole intersects a fault zone at a depth of 1111 m (FZ1111), which is the best candidate for the Chelungpu fault. Our main results are: (1) the SHmax direction is parallel to the slip for the Chi-Chi earthquake and agrees with those of the local, regional, or tectonic scales estimated from various stress indicators; (2) significant aspects of the stress field are identical to those of paleostress; (3) the horizontal differential stress was significantly reduced just above FZ1111, which may be attributable to the existence of a significantly deformable zone at this depth.

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  1. Observation Center for Prediction of Earthquakes and Volcanic Eruptions, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8578, Japan

    Yasuo Yabe

  2. Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University, P. O. Box 13-318, Taipei, 106, Taiwan

    Sheng-Rong Song

  3. Institute of Geophysics, National Central University, No. 300, Jhongda Rd., Jhongli, 32001, Taiwan

    Chien-Ying Wang

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Yabe, Y., Song, SR. & Wang, CY. In-situ stress at the northern portion of the Chelungpu fault, Taiwan, estimated on boring cores recovered from a 2-km-deep hole of TCDP. Earth Planet Sp 60, 809–819 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1186/BF03352832

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