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The results show that the Moho depth has a big lateral variation from southwest to northeast, which shallows from 57 km to 43 km with maximum variation up to 14 km within 800 km. The most acute depth change of the Moho is in the boundary region between the Bayan Har block and West Qinling\u2013Qilian block. According to our analysis, it is related to the eastward movement of the Bayan Har block. There are three main pieces of evidence that support it: (1) Density is higher in the east of the Bayan Har block and smaller in the west, which is the same as seismic activity; (2) Two thin low-density layers exist in the upper and middle crust of the Bayan Har block, which may promote inter-layer slip and the Jiuzhaigou Ms7.0 earthquake occurred in the boundary area of the two low-density layers, where the crustal density and Moho surface fluctuate sharply; (3) the GPS velocity field in the southwestern part gravity profile is significantly larger than that of the northeastern part, which is consistent with the density structure. Our studies also suggest that the large undulation of the Moho prevents the movement of the Bayan Har block, and strain is prone to accumulate here. The dynamic background analysis of the crust in this area indicates that the Moho surface uplifts in the West Qinling\u2013Qilian block, which decelerates the eastern migration of material on the Qinghai\u2013Tibet Plateau, and leads to the weak tectonic activity of the north part of the Bayan Har block.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s21041497","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,2,21]],"date-time":"2021-02-21T22:04:15Z","timestamp":1613945055000},"page":"1497","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Crustal Density Structure of the Jiuzhaigou Ms7.0 Earthquake Area Revealed by the Barkam\u2013Jiuzhaigou\u2013Wuqi Gravity Profile"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"21","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1548-2914","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Guangliang","family":"Yang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Earthquake Geodesy, Institute of Seismology, China Earthquake Administration, Wuhan 430071, China"},{"name":"Institute of Disaster Prevention, Langfang 065201, China"},{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Geodesy and Earth\u2019s Dynamics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430077, China"},{"name":"Wuhan Gravitation and Solid Earth Tides National Observation and Research Station, Wuhan 430071, China"}]},{"given":"Chongyang","family":"Shen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Earthquake Geodesy, Institute of Seismology, China Earthquake Administration, Wuhan 430071, China"}]},{"given":"Hongbo","family":"Tan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Earthquake Geodesy, Institute of Seismology, China Earthquake Administration, Wuhan 430071, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5412-790X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jiapei","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Earthquake Geodesy, Institute of Seismology, China Earthquake Administration, Wuhan 430071, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,2,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"557","DOI":"10.1785\/0220170158","article-title":"Preliminary Report on the 8 August 2017 Ms 7.0 Jiuzhaigou, Sichuan, China, Earthquake","volume":"89","author":"Han","year":"2018","journal-title":"Seismol. 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