NAI Yihan, HAN Bingquan, LIU Zhenjiang, LI Zhenhong, SONG Chuang, YU Chen, LI Suju, PENG Jianbing. Coseismic Surface Displacement and Source Model of the 2024 Mw 7.0 Wushi (Xinjiang, China) Earthquake Revealed by InSAR Observations[J]. Geomatics and Information Science of Wuhan University, 2025, 50(2): 368-376. DOI: 10.13203/j.whugis20240037
Citation: NAI Yihan, HAN Bingquan, LIU Zhenjiang, LI Zhenhong, SONG Chuang, YU Chen, LI Suju, PENG Jianbing. Coseismic Surface Displacement and Source Model of the 2024 Mw 7.0 Wushi (Xinjiang, China) Earthquake Revealed by InSAR Observations[J]. Geomatics and Information Science of Wuhan University, 2025, 50(2): 368-376. DOI: 10.13203/j.whugis20240037

Coseismic Surface Displacement and Source Model of the 2024 Mw 7.0 Wushi (Xinjiang, China) Earthquake Revealed by InSAR Observations

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  • Received Date: January 29, 2024
  • Available Online: February 29, 2024
  • Objectives 

    On 23 January 2024, an Mw 7.0 earthquake struck Wushi County (Xinjiang, China). It was the largest earthquake that occurred along the Maidan-Shayilamu fault of the Tianshan seismic belt in the last two decades, which provided an opportunity to further examine the rupture behavior and tectonic activity of the fault system in the Tianshan seismic belt.

    Methods 

    Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) was used to retrieve coseismic surface deformation from Sentinel-1A images. The multipeak particle swarm optimization was employed to invert for fault geometry parameters and subsequently obtained the refined slip distribution based on a bounded-variable least-squares algorithm. The static Coulomb failure stress change (ΔCFS) was calculated to assess regional seismic hazards.

    Results 

    The earthquake led to a maximum line of sight uplift displacement of about 74 cm and a maximum line of sight subsi⁃dence displacement of about 14 cm. The event had a NNW-dipping fault with a dip of 55°, a strike of about 230°, and a rake of about 42°, indicating that this earthquake was a thrust event with a left-lateral slip component. The slip was concentrated mainly at depths of 8-18 km. The maximum slip was 4.3 m, occurring at a depth of about 10.2 km. The total released moment was 4.25×1019 N·m, equivalent to a moment magnitude Mw 7.05.

    Conclusions 

    Our modeling results together with previous geological researches suggest that the seismogenic fault is a secondary fault of the Maidan-Shayilamu fault zone. ΔCFS results indicate high seismic risks in Kuokesale fault region, Dashixia fault region, and the Tuoshigan fault region northwest of the epicenter, which special attention should be paid to.

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