dc.description.abstract | Longitudinal Valley (LV), extended form Hualien to Taitung between the Central Range (CR) and the Coastal Range (CoR) in the eastern Taiwan, is considered as a plate boundary formed by the convergence between the Eurasian and Philippine Sea plates. Previous studies reveal ~30 mm/yr shortening in the southern part of the LV; however, the potential due to the locking state of the northern LV is worth to discuss. In this study, we analyzed GPS data from 38 continuous stations together with Envisat and ALOS images processed by PSInSAR (Persistent Scatterers InSAR) technique to study the interseismic ground deformation of the northern LV area. Our geodetic analysis reveal that the GPS horizontal velocity field decreases toward the north from 25 mm/yr to <10 mm/yr across the latitude of 23.5°, with a clockwise rotation of velocity directions from northwest to north and further to east in the Hualien area. In addition, the vertical velocities show subsidence in the most of the area with rates up to 10 mm/yr. Moreover, the mean Line-Of-Sight (LOS) velocity of the 2004-2008 Envisat data show up to 5 mm/yr away from satellite in the Coastal Range area, and 2007-2010 ALOS data reveal about 10 mm/yr at the central LV area. Due to the different characteristic of GPS and InSAR data: GPS have high accuracy in three direction (North, East, Up) but less data points while InSAR have wild distribution but only measure in one dimension (LOS direction). We tried to calculate the three dimensional velocity (E, N, U) on the nodes of triangle mesh from GPS and InSAR. The calculated velocities on nodes well express the graduated changes velocity field in three direction, E, N, U. Finally, we estimate the geodetic moment rate and seismic moment rate to discuss the high potential area of happening earthquakes. The result of deficit moment rate shows the Ruisui fault and Chimei fault area have higher potential to occur earthquake in the future. | en_US |