Construction and Geodesy Slip Inversion Analysis of 2013 Ms 7.0 Lushan in China Earthquake's Curved Fault Model

Based on the distribution of aftershock sequences and the geology of Lushan, using the GPS and level measurement coseismal displacement data near the Lushan Earthquake, we constructed a curved fault model of the 2013 Ms 7.0 Lushan earthquake using the grid search and variance component estimation method. We executed a fault slip distribution inversion based on this curved fault model. The result shows that the fault is mainly a thrust fault with a sinistral trend. The earthquake occurred at 4.56~18.25 km in depth, the maximum slip was 0.70 m at the 12.64 km depth, and the corresponding seismic moment release was 8.77×10¹⁸N/m, equivalent to a Mw 6.57 earthquake. Based on a check board test of the curved fault model, we can distinguish an asperity shallower than 13 km in the fault depth, with a minimum area of 8 km×8 km.