GENETIC ANALYSIS OF RESERVOIR-INDUCED EARTHQUAKE BASED ON GIS

Earthquakes induced by reservoirs always cause more serious damage to reservoir dam due to its epicenter location and destroying effect.Reservoir induced earthquakes have different characteristics from the natural ones,their hypocenters are always shallow,less than ten kilometers,and the magnitude is small too.Till now the biggest earthquake induced by reservoir is the MS6.1 earthquake in Xinfengjiang reservoir in 1962.The paper analyzes the effects of different factors related to reservoir induced earthquake based on GIS technology and lots of reservoir induced earthquakes data from the world.The primary results show that reservoir's local geological and hydrogeological settings have closer relations with induced earthquake than regional geological and seismic activity setting does.The reservoirs with dams higher than 50m or reservoir volume greater than 5×1010 m3 are prone to induced earthquake.Moreover,the reservoir region,where limestone,carbonatite,karst landform,or joints and high permeable structure are developed,will have a higher probability to induce earthquake.