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Multifractal measures of earthquakes in west Taiwan 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
The generalized fractal dimension for epicentral distribution of earthquakes in west Taiwan is measured. The entire area is first divided into two zones, i.e., north and south zones, after which the two zones are further separated into three subzones for the former and two for the latter. The logC
q
(r) versus logr function, whereC
q
(r) is the generalized correlation integral andr is the distance between two epicenters, shows that a linear relation between logC
q
and logr exists in the range ofr smaller thanr
c
. The value ofr
c
is 25 km for the north zone, 40 km for the south and 12 km for the three north subzones. The valuesr
c
=25 and 40 km are almost the smallest ones of the width of epicentral distributions of the north and south zones, respectively. The value ofr
c
=12 km for the three north subzones is approximately the smallest size of the cluster of epicenters. For the plots of two south subzones, the pattern of data points does not bend in the range ofr in consideration, and, thus, there is not such a critical radius. TheD
q
–q relations forq=0, 1, 2,..., 15 are constructed for the two zones and five subzones. Results show significant multifractality and a spatial variation in multifractality for epicentral distributions of earthquakes in west Taiwan. 相似文献
2.
Multifractal analysis of earthquakes 总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5
Multifractal properties of the epicenter and hypocenter distribution and also of the energy distribution of earthquakes are studied for California, Japan, and Greece. The calculatedD
q-q curves (the generalized dimension) indicate that the earthquake process is multifractal or heterogeneous in the fractal dimension. Japanese earthquakes are the most heterogeneous and Californian earthquakes are the least. Since the earthquake process is multifractal, a single value of the so-called fractal dimension is not sufficient to characterize the earthquake process. Studies of multifractal models of earthquakes are recommended. Temporal changes of theD
q-q curve are also obtained for Californian and Japanese earthquakes. TheD
q-q curve shows two distinctly different types in each region; the gentle type and the steep type. The steeptype corresponds to a strongly heterogeneous multifractal, which appears during seismically active periods when large earthquakes occur.D
q for smallq or negativeq is considerably more sensitive to the change in fractal structure of earthquakes thanD
q forq2. We recommend use ofD
q at smallq to detect the seismicity change in a local area. 相似文献
3.
Probabilistic Assessment of Earthquake Hazards in the North-East Indian Peninsula and Hindukush Regions 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
—The Himalayan region is one of the most seismic prone areas of the world. The North-East (NE) Indian peninsula and the Hindukush regions mark the zone of collision of the Indian and Eurasian plates. The probability of the occurrence of great earthquakes with magnitude greater than 7.0 during a specified interval of time has been estimated on the basis of four probabilistic models, namely, Weibull, Gamma, Lognormal and Exponential for the NE Indian peninsula and Hindukush regions. The model parameters have been estimated by the method of Maximum Likelihood Estimates (MLE) and the Method of Moments (MOM). The cumulative probability is estimated for a period of 40 years from 1964 and is ranging between 0.881 to 0.995 by the year 1995, using all four models for the NE Indian peninsula. The conditional probability is also estimated and it is concluded that the NE Indian peninsula would expect a great earthquake at any time in the remaining years of the present century. For the Hindukush region, the cumulative probability has already crossed its highest value, but no earthquake of magnitude greater than 7.0 has occurred after 1974 in this area. It may attribute to the occurrence of frequent shocks of moderate size, as seventeen earthquakes of magnitude greater than 6.0, including four greater than 6.4, have been reported until 1994 from this region. 相似文献
4.
Temporal characteristics of seismicity in the Alborz and Zagros regions of Iran, using a multifractal approach 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Multifractal characteristics of the temporal distribution of earthquakes in the Zagros and Alborz regions of Iran were analyzed using the fixed-mass method. The generalized multifractal dimensions, singularity spectrum, mass exponents, and the asymmetry factor were calculated for these regions. The results indicate that the temporal distributions of earthquakes in the Zagros and Alborz regions are likely to be chaotic and have multifractal structures. Although both of the study areas show heterogeneous structures, the Dq and f(αq) spectra for the Zagros region indicate that densely populated time domains are as heterogeneous as the sparsely populated ones. On the other hand, the multifractal spectra of the Alborz region show that the densely clustered time domains are more heterogeneous than the sparsely populated ones. Such a multifractal spectrum shows that there are many more sparsely populated time domains (i.e. seismic gaps) within the multifractal structure than densely populated ones. 相似文献
5.
Time variations in the parameters of seismic activity in two regions in Greece, which are known to have different geodynamical
conditions, are analyzed using the FastBEE algorithm suggested in (Papadopoulos and Baskoutas, 2009). The study is based on the data on weak earthquakes that occurred
in two local regions. One region pertains to the zone dominated by intensive compression stress field, while another is located
in the region of a relatively lower intensity extension stress field. It is shown that in the zone of compression the seismic
parameters exhibit anomalous temporal behavior before strong earthquakes with Ms ≥ 5.7, whereas in the zones of extension, similar anomalies precede earthquakes with lower magnitudes of up to Ms ≥ 4.9. The most informative parameters for the purposes of predicting strong seismic events are the released seismic energy
in the form logE
2/3 and the slope of the frequency-magnitude dependence, b-value. The seismic activity in the region, expressed in terms of the logarithmic number of earthquakes, per unit time in some cases
does not exhibit any particular pattern of behavior before strong earthquakes. In the time series of the studied parameters,
four stages in the seismic process are clearly distinguished before strong earthquakes. Typically, a strong earthquake has
a low probability to occur within the first two stages. Instead, this probability arises at stage III and attains its maximum
at the end of this stage coinciding with the occurrence of the strong earthquake. We suggest these features of the time series
to be used for the assessment of seismic hazard and for the real-time prediction of strong earthquakes. The time variations
in the b-value are found to be correlated with the time variations inlogE
2/3. This correlation is closely approximated by the power-law function. The parameters of this function depend on the geodynamical
features of the region and characterize the intensity and the type of the regional tectonic stresses. The results of our study
show that the FastBEE algorithm can be successfully applied for monitoring seismic hazard and predicting strong earthquakes. 相似文献
6.
S. N. Bhattacharya 《Pure and Applied Geophysics》1996,147(3):497-514
Love waves recorded by a long-period seismograph at New Delhi (NDI) from seven earthquakes of magnitude 4.3 to 5.2 in Koyna and Bhatsa on the western coast and one earthquake in Ongole on the eastern coast of the Indian Peninsula have been used to determine the seismic moment for each of the earthquakes by waveform modeling. Transverse component of the synthetic seismogram shows that the maximum amplitude of waveform decreases with an increase of source duration. Thus for an evaluation of the seismic moment by equating the amplitude level of the observed and synthetic waveforms, we must know the source duration. The synthetic seismogram also indicates that a short source duration gives rise to a small but sharp pulse and this pulse is interpreted as anLg wave. Comparison of the observed and synthetic waveforms has been used for a simultaneous evaluation of the source duration and seismic moment. The source durations are found to vary between 2.2 and 4.4 s; for earthquakes with a magnitude range between 4.3 and 5.2 these durations are slightly higher than normal. We obtain moment (M
0) of Ongole earthquake (M
L
=5.1)as 1.7×1024 dyne-cm; moments of Koyna and Bhatsa earthquakes (4.3M
L
5.2) on the western coast lie between 0.7×1023 and 3.6×1023 dyne-cm. Moment (M
0)-magnitude (M
L
) relation logM
0=1.5M
L
+16.0 for the western United States region agrees as well, in general, with the results for the earthquakes in the Indian Peninsula. 相似文献
7.
Muhammad N.Mushtaq Muhammd Tahir Muhammd T.Iqbal Muhammd A.Shah Saleem Iqbal Talat Iqbal 《地震科学（英文版）》2021,34(2):114-122
Hindukush is an active subduction zone where at least one earthquake occurs on daily basis. For seismic hazard studies, it is important to develop a local magnitude scale using the data of local seismic network. We have computed local magnitude scale for Hindukush earthquakes using data from local network belonging to Center for Earthquake Studies (CES) for a period of three years, i.e. 2015–2017. A total of 26,365 seismic records pertaining to 2,683 earthquakes with magnitude 2.0 and greater, was used with hypocentral distance less than 600 km. Magnitude scale developed by using this data comes to be ML = logA + 0.929logr + 0.00298r – 1.84. The magnitude determined through formulated relation was compared with that of standard relation for Southern California and relation developed by the same authors for local network for Northern Punjab. It was observed that Hindukush region has high attenuation as compared to that of Southern California and Northern Punjab which implies that Hindukush is tectonically more disturbed as compared to the said regions, hence, seismically more active as well. We have calculated station correction factors for our network. Station correction factors do not show any pattern which probably owes to the geological and tectonic complexity of this structure. Standard deviation and variance of magnitude residuals for CES network determined using Hutton and Boore scale and scale developed in this study were compared, it showed that a variance reduction of 44.1% was achieved. Average of magnitude residuals for different distance ranges was almost zero which showed that our magnitude scale was stable for all distances up to 600 km. Newly developed magnitude scale will help in homogenization of earthquake catalog. It has been observed that b-value of CES catalog decreases when magnitude is calculated by using newly developed magnitude scale. 相似文献
8.
Ibrahim M. Korrat Ali A. Gharib Kamal A. Abou Elenean Hesham M. Hussein Mohamed N. El Gabry 《Acta Geophysica》2008,56(2):344-356
Seismic discriminants based on the spectral seismogram and spectral magnitude techniques have been tested to discriminate
between three events; a nuclear explosion which took place in Lop Nor, China with m
b
6.1 and two earthquakes from the closest area with m
b
5.5 and 5.3, respectively. The spectral seismogram of the three events shows that the frequency content of the nuclear explosion
differs from that of the earthquakes where the P wave is richier in high frequency content in the nuclear explosion than the corresponding earthquakes. It is also observed
that the energy decays more rapidly for the nuclear explosion than for the earthquakes. Furthermore, the spectral magnitudes
reveal significant differences in the spectra between the nuclear explosion and the two earthquakes. The observed differences
appear to be quite enough to provide a reliable discriminant. The estimated stress drop from the magnitude spectra indicates
a higher stress drop of the nuclear explosion relative to the earthquakes of the same tectonic region. 相似文献
9.
本文用平面问题的有限元方法,在研究云南地震与应力场关系之后,采用先计算大区域应力场,再计算小区域应力场的分步办法。 首先研究我国西南及其邻区强震活动与构造应力场的关系。计算结果说明:(1)由于印度板块不均匀推挤,在特定的边界条件下,是产生我国西南地区应力场复杂性的主要原因。(2)在印度板块的作用下,断块间运动以及板内大范围内应力场调整是西南地区强震活动的主要因素。(3)通过四个八级以上地震(海源、古浪、察隅:印度、尼泊尔)后应力场调整的研究,未来八级地震的地区有可能在川滇藏或缅甸一带。 相似文献
10.
Seismicity in the La Cerdanya region of the eastern Pyrenees has been accurately mapped for the first time using data from a local seismic network. The majority of earthquakes lies on or near the La Cerdanya fault or secondary faults to the south. Coda magnitudes determined for these earthquakes, using magnitude relations from other regions, range between –0.5 and 2.2. These are, however, presumed to be underdetermined values sinceQ values appear to be very low in the La Cerdanya region. CodaQ values at a frequency of 1.5 Hz range between 17 and 120, the lowest values being obtained for the most seismically active regions. CodaQ values also increase with increasing distance, a result which indicates decreasing seismic attenuation with increasing depth in the crust. 相似文献
11.
B. T. Brady 《Pure and Applied Geophysics》1976,114(6):1031-1082
The scale invariant inclusion theory of failure is applied to the general problem of precursors that precede failure. A precursor is defined to be an effect produced within a physical system which indicates that the process leading to failure of the system has begun. Precursors are grouped into three classes.Class I precursors refer to long-term indicators of impending failure. These may includev
p/vs, long-term tilt, and crustal uplift anomalies observed to precede some major shallow earthquakes by afew years. Class II precursors refer to short-term indicators of failure and include: S-bend tilt, electromagnetic radiation, radon emanations, and seismicity changes that have been reported to precede major earthquakes by afew hours. Class III precursors refer tovery short-termphenomena such as long-period (strain) waves,rapid changes in surface ground tilts, and seismicity increase in the hypocentral region that are predicted by the inclusion theory to precede major shallow earthquakes by afew seconds.The physical processes that occur within the inclusion zone of an impending failure that indirectly produce the class II precursors are used with the scale invariant properties of failure to show that their time duration is a direct measure of the average length of the cracks that comprise the inclusion zone. This result is used to derive the precursor time-fault length relationship that has been observed to hold for class I precursors of shallow earthquakes, mine failures, and laboratory size failures of rock. The physical model proposed for producing class I, class II, and indirectly, the class III precursors leads to six results when both the Utsu relationship between aftershock area and earthquake magnitude and the Gutenberg-Richter energy-magnitude relationship are satisfied. (1) The seismic efficiency factor for failures satisfying the constraints of the inclusion theory is approximately 0.40%. (2) The energy radiated by aftershocks will be at least 1.0% of the energy radiated bythe mainshock. (3) An upper limiting magnitude of any aftershock in the aftershock sequence isM–1.6, whereM is the mainshock magnitude. (4) The time durations of all three precursor classes are shown to be shortened (or lengthened) by a factor inversely proportional to the rate of increase (or decrease) of the far-field stresses during the time duration of the precursor. Changes in far-field stresses, such as might occur to tidal effects, are shown to be of particular importance in initiating class II precursors, and it is shown that tidal stresses provide a mechanism for triggering large earthquakes (M6.0) in regions that are at the point of incipient failure. Thus, class II precursors may give the appearance of being independent of magnitude for large earthquakes. (5) When fluids are present in the focal volume of the mainshock, the predicted magnitude, calculated by class I precursors, will always be larger than the observed magnitude. (6) Seismic events that produce the inclusion zone of the impending mainshock will not be followed by aftershocks. These events are predicted to be characterized by anomalously long rupture lengths.The inclusion theory is shown to provide a physical basis for criteria required to predict failure. The implications of the inclusion theory to the problem of earthquake prediction are discussed. The theory is applied to existing earthquake-prone regions. 相似文献
12.
Santanu Baruah Saurabh Baruah P. K. Bora R. Duarah Aditya Kalita Rajib Biswas N. Gogoi J. R. Kayal 《Pure and Applied Geophysics》2012,169(11):1977-1988
An attempt has been made to examine an empirical relationship between moment magnitude (M W) and local magnitude (M L) for the earthquakes in the northeast Indian region. Some 364 earthquakes that were recorded during 1950–2009 are used in this study. Focal mechanism solutions of these earthquakes include 189 Harvard-CMT solutions (M W?≥?4.0) for the period 1976–2009, 61 published solutions and 114 solutions obtained for the local earthquakes (2.0?≤?M L?≤?5.0) recorded by a 27-station permanent broadband network during 2001–2009 in the region. The M W–M L relationships in seven selected zones of the region are determined by linear regression analysis. A significant variation in the M W–M L relationship and its zone specific dependence are reported here. It is found that M W is equivalent to M L with an average uncertainty of about 0.13 magnitude units. A single relationship is, however, not adequate to scale the entire northeast Indian region because of heterogeneous geologic and geotectonic environments where earthquakes occur due to collisions, subduction and complex intra-plate tectonics. 相似文献
13.
Summary A new significant correlation has been sought between high magnitude global seismicity and lateral surface wave velocity gradients. Rayleigh wave velocity divisioning of Eurasia, Africa, Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean into regions of similar group velocity dispersion character of 30 sec period bySanto andSato [1]3) has been mainly used for calculating the gradients. It is quite striking to note that all earthquakes of magnitude 8.6 and above during 1897–1956 have occurred in regions having gradients of the order of 1.5·10–3 sec–1.Finally, some potential areas for high magnitude earthquake occurrences are predicted and the possible velocity gradients in regions, where division pattern is not yet investigated like South America and Australia, are also estimated.N.G.R.I. Contribution No. 70-170. 相似文献
14.
--In this comprehensive study of seismicity and seismotectonics of the peninsular Indian shield region, seismic data of regional earthquakes spanning two decades (1978-1997), obtained at Gauribidanur seismic array (India) and integrated where necessary with data from other seismological stations in the region, have been analyzed in detail. With a slow rate of stress accumulation, the shield is found to have low to moderate seismicity that takes into account a couple of earthquakes of magnitude slightly larger than 6. The frequency-magnitude analysis of the data set gives a b value of 1.18. The spatio-temporal pattern of occurrences of the earthquakes combined with their magnitude and seismic energy distribution is consistent with the view that the peninsular seismicity is low to moderate and episodic in nature. Regions of moderate seismicity and its low-grade counterpart constituted by microearthquakes (magnitude less than 3), appear correlated to the areas traversed by known geologic faults and subfaults, shear zones, and other such tectonic features. Microearthquakes represent about two-thirds of the total regional seismic events during the past two decades. 相似文献
15.
Ram Bichar Singh Yadav Jayant Nath Tripathi Bal Krishna Rastogi Mridul Chandra Das Sumer Chopra 《Pure and Applied Geophysics》2010,167(11):1331-1342
Northeast India and adjoining regions (20°–32° N and 87°–100° E) are highly vulnerable to earthquake hazard in the Indian
sub-continent, which fall under seismic zones V, IV and III in the seismic zoning map of India with magnitudes M exceeding 8, 7 and 6, respectively. It has experienced two devastating earthquakes, namely, the Shillong Plateau earthquake
of June 12, 1897 (M
w
8.1) and the Assam earthquake of August 15, 1950 (M
w
8.5) that caused huge loss of lives and property in the Indian sub-continent. In the present study, the probabilities of
the occurrences of earthquakes with magnitude M ≥ 7.0 during a specified interval of time has been estimated on the basis of three probabilistic models, namely, Weibull,
Gamma and Lognormal, with the help of the earthquake catalogue spanning the period 1846 to 1995. The method of maximum likelihood
has been used to estimate the earthquake hazard parameters. The logarithmic probability of likelihood function (ln L) is estimated
and used to compare the suitability of models and it was found that the Gamma model fits best with the actual data. The sample
mean interval of occurrence of such earthquakes is estimated as 7.82 years in the northeast India region and the expected
mean values for Weibull, Gamma and Lognormal distributions are estimated as 7.837, 7.820 and 8.269 years, respectively. The
estimated cumulative probability for an earthquake M ≥ 7.0 reaches 0.8 after about 15–16 (2010–2011) years and 0.9 after about 18–20 (2013–2015) years from the occurrence of
the last earthquake (1995) in the region. The estimated conditional probability also reaches 0.8 to 0.9 after about 13–17
(2008–2012) years in the considered region for an earthquake M ≥ 7.0 when the elapsed time is zero years. However, the conditional probability reaches 0.8 to 0.9 after about 9–13 (2018–2022)
years for earthquake M ≥ 7.0 when the elapsed time is 14 years (i.e. 2009). 相似文献
16.
Wave-form modelling of body waves has been done to study the seismic source parameters of three earthquakes which occurred on October 21, 1964 (M
b
=5.9), September 26, 1966 (M
b
=5.8) and March 14, 1967 (M
b
=5.8). These events occurred in the Indochina border region where a low-angle thrust fault accommodates motion between the underthrusting Indian plate and overlying Himalaya. The focal depths of all these earthquakes are between 12–37 km. The total range in dip for the three events is 5°–20°. TheT axes are NE-SW directed whereas the strikes of the northward dipping nodal planes are generally parallel to the local structural trend. The total source durations have been found to vary between 5–6 seconds. The average values of seismic moment, fault radius and dislocation are 1.0–11.0×1025 dyne-cm, 7.7–8.4km and 9.4–47.4 cm, respectively whereas stress drop, apparent stress and strain energy are found to be 16–76 bars, 8.2–37.9 bars and 0.1–1.7×1021 ergs, respectively. These earthquakes possibly resulted due to the tension caused by the bending of the lithospheric plate into a region of former subduction which is now a zone of thrusting and crustal shortening. 相似文献
17.
WEN-ZHENG YANG 《地震学报(英文版)》1999,12(1):35-45
With the theory of subcritical crack growth, we can deduce the fundamental equation of regional seismicity acceleration model. Applying this model to intraplate earthquake regions, we select three earthquake subplates: North China Subplate, Chuan-Dian Block and Xinjiang Subplate, and divide the three subplates into seven researched regions by the difference of seismicity and tectonic conditions. With the modified equation given by Sornette and Sammis (1995), we analysis the seismicity of each region. To those strong earthquakes already occurred in these region, the model can give close fitting of magnitude and occurrence time, and the result in this article indicates that the seismicity acceleration model can also be used for describing the seismicity of intraplate. In the article, we give the magnitude and occurrence time of possible strong earthquakes in Shanxi, Ordos, Bole-Tuokexun, Ayinke-Wuqia earthquake regions. In the same subplate or block, the earthquake periods for each earthquake region are similar in time interval. The constant αin model can be used to describe the intensity of regional seismicity, and for the Chinese Mainland, α is 0.4 generally. To the seismicity in Taiwan and other regions with complex tectonic conditions, the model does not fit well at present. 相似文献
18.
R. K. S. Chouhan 《Pure and Applied Geophysics》1970,81(1):112-118
Summary Himalayan earthquakes have been studied following the method of Benioff and then a comparative study of energy relased by the Himalayan and the world shallow earthquakes is made. Frequency-magnitude analysis of these earthquakes gives the frequency-magnitude relation of the form logN =a –b
M wherea=8.46±0.07 andb=1±0.8. 相似文献
19.
Tokutaro Hatori 《Pure and Applied Geophysics》1995,144(3-4):471-479
Based on the tsunami data in the Central American region, the regional characteristic of tsunami magnitude scales is discussed in relation to earthquake magnitudes during the period from 1900 to 1993. Tsunami magnitudes on the Imamura-Iida scale of the 1985 Mexico and 1992 Nicaragua tsunamis are determined to bem=2.5, judging from the tsunami height-distance diagram. The magnitude values of the Central American tsunamis are relatively small compared to earthquakes with similar size in other regions. However, there are a few large tsunamis generated by low-frequency earthquakes such as the 1992 Nicaragua earthquake. Inundation heights of these unusual tsunamis are about 10 times higher than those of normal tsunamis for the same earthquake magnitude (M
s
=6.9–7.2). The Central American tsunamis having magnitudem>1 have been observed by the Japanese tide stations, but the effect of directivity toward Japan is very small compared to that of the South American tsunamis. 相似文献
20.
Yushou Xie 《地震学报(英文版)》1992,5(3):635-646
The earthquakes offshore Fujian and Guangdong Provinces concentrated along the two segments near Nan’ao in the south and Quanzhou
in the north of the off coast fault, which is very active since the late Pleistocene. In 1918 and 1906, two earthquakes with
magnitudes 7.3 and 6.1 respectively occurred in the south and the north regions. With the instrumentally determined seismic
parameters of these two earthquakes as standards, the author evaluated the parameters of the historical earthquakes by comparing
their macroseismic materials with consideration of the geological background. As a result, chronological tables of historical
earthquakes of the south and the north regions were compiled.
The seismic activity of the two regions synchronized basically, and their strongest recorded earthquakes were both aroundM
s 7.3. Seismic activity usually intensified before the occurrence of strong events. Aftershocks were frequent, but strong aftershocks
usually occurred one to several years after the main shock. Two high tides of seismic activity occurred since the late 15th
century. Around 1600, eight earthquakes each with magnitudes over 4.3 occurred in both of the two regions. The magnitude of
the strongest shock in the south region is 6.7, that in the north region is 7.5. The second high tide occurred at the early
20th century. Among the 18 earthquakes occurred in the south region, one was of magnitude 7.3; whilst only two earthquakes
with magnitudes 6.1 and 5.5 respectively occurred in the north region. Further, medium to strong earthquakes never occurred
since 1942. Whether this is the “mitigation effect” of strong shocks, or a big earthquake is brewing in the north region is
worth intensive study.
The Chinese version of this paper appeared in the Chinese edition ofActa Seismologica Sinica,13, 505–515, 1991.
This work is supported by Chinese Joint Seismological Science Foundation. 相似文献