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Based on the horizontal movement velocities and their error estimations of 144 GPS stations in North China deduced from the results obtained from multiple GPS measurements carried out in the period of 1992–2001, the horizontal deformation in the area is studied. The movements, entire deformations, local deformations, activity patterns and intensities along the boundary zones are derived. And then the risk of strong earthquake in the area is estimated. In the research, the horizontal displacement observations can be considered as the sum of three parts. The first part is the entire motion following Eurasian plate, which can be derived from NUVAL-IA model; the second part is the relative motions and deformations between the sub-tectonic blocks in the studied area, which can be derived from a set of displacement observations determined by the expanded QUAD method in the paper; the third part is the local deformations and errors in the sub-tectonic blocks, which can be described as the inhomogeneous strains of the block. The method and results are introduced in detail in the paper.
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Foundation item: State Key Basic Research Development and Programming Project “Mechanism and Prediction of Strong Continental Earthquakes” (G1998040703).
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Huang, Lr., Yang, Gh. & Wang, M. Active blocks and their deformations derived from the velocity field in North China. Acta Seimol. Sin. 16, 79–91 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11589-003-0009-6
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