On the spatial characteristic of the short-term and imminent anomalies of underground water behaviors before strong earthquake

Abstract

Observational results of underground water regime (water level and flow) in some strong earthquakes and moderate earthquakes (in this paper we also call them by "strong earthquakes") in Chinese mainland are studied and the following conclusions are obtained. For one strong earthquake, the spatial distributions of the anomalies which include medium-term anomalies of one year scale, short-term anomalies and imminent anomalies, and underground water stations without the anomalies were mainly related to the causative mechanism and active master faults (active abyssal faults or strongly active faults) around the focal region; The spatial distribution of the anomalies coincided with the specific relation among the anomalies, the focal site, the causative mechanism and active master faults. Finally, the mechanism of the relation was briefly discussed, and the importance about the research result in this paper was set forth.