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The Vrancea seismic region contains an isolated cluster of events beneath the Carpathian Arc Bend in Romania, dipping to about 200 km depth. Seismic activity mainly occurs at intermediate depths (h > 60 km). The main goal of the paper is to perform an in-depth, complex analysis of the occurrence times of these intermediate-depth events. We also try to show the versatility of the methods used to characterize different aspects of the seismicity evolution and to offer a user-friendly software toolbox to do most of the related computations. The earthquake catalog used in this study spans from 1974 to 2002 and includes only the intermediate-depth events. In the first part of the paper, we analyze the multifractal characteristics of the temporal distribution of earthquakes. The study reveals two distinct scaling regimes. At small scales we found a clear nonhomogeneous, multifractal pattern, while at large scales the temporal distribution of events shows a monofractal, and close to Poissonian (random), behavior. The multifractal behavior at small scales (minutes-hours) is shown to be clearly an effect of the short aftershock sequences that occurred after some major Vrancea earthquakes. In the second part of the paper we analyze whether our temporal series shows a persistent (or anti-persistent) long-term behavior, by using the Detrended Fluctuation Analysis (DFA) method. The results suggest that the analyzed temporal series of Vrancea earthquakes is a non-correlated process. In part three of the paper we seek to determine whether the dynamics of our earthquake system (described by the occurrence time of Vrancea earthquakes) is deterministically chaotic, deriving from a rather simple evolution law, or whether it is stochastic and is generated by a system that possesses many degrees of freedom. The results suggest that our signal is stochastic (probably does not possess an attractor). The limited time-span of the catalog and the analysis performed in this paper cannot rule out the emergence of an interesting, quasi-deterministic and low-dimensional structure in the case of major Vrancea earthquakes.Acknowledgement One of the authors (BE) is grateful to the Japanese Ministry of Education for providing him a Monbusho scholarship for studying in DPRI, Kyoto University. We thank Z.R. Struzik, M Holschneider, J. Mori and D. Kaplan for their useful comments, and acknowledge the support of the staff of DPRI, Kyoto University and the National Inst. for Earth Physics, Bucharest. We thank the two reviewers, M.B. Geilikman and M. Anghel, for their useful suggestions which improved the quality of this work. 相似文献
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Introduction For a long time, the seismologists have paid great attentions to the research on the spatio- temporal distribution of earthquake intensity, which provide us with significant information for the researches on crustal stress variation, tectonic activity and earthquake risk prediction in a certain spatio-temporal region. The existing results have shown consistently that the intensity of earth- quakes is characterized by non-stability, non-linearity in temporal domain and non-uniformi… 相似文献
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Comparison of seismicity declustering methods using a probabilistic measure of clustering 总被引：2，自引：1，他引：1
Abdelhak Talbi Kazuyoshi Nanjo Kenji Satake Jiancang Zhuang Mohamed Hamdache 《Journal of Seismology》2013,17(3):1041-1061
We present a new measure of earthquake clustering and explore its use for comparing the performance of three different declustering methods. The advantage of this new clustering measure over existing techniques is that it can be used for non-Poissonian background seismicity and, in particular, to compare the results of declustering algorithms where different background models are used. We use our approach to study inter-event times between successive earthquakes using earthquake catalog data from Japan and southern California. A measure of the extent of clustering is introduced by comparing the inter-event time distributions of the background seismicity to that of the whole observed seismicity. Theoretical aspects of the clustering measure are then discussed with respect to the Poissonian and Weibull models for the background inter-event time distribution. In the case of a Poissonian background, the obtained clustering measure shows a decrease followed by an increase, defining a V-shaped trend, which can be explained by the presence of short- and long-range correlation in the inter-event time series. Three previously proposed declustering methods (i.e., the methods of Gardner and Knopoff, Reasenberg, and Zhuang et al.) are used to obtain an approximation of the residual “background” inter-event time distribution in order to apply our clustering measure to real seismicity. The clustering measure is then estimated for different values of magnitude cutoffs and time periods, taking into account the completeness of each catalog. Plots of the clustering measure are presented as clustering attenuation curves (CACs), showing how the correlation decreases when inter-event times increase. The CACs demonstrate strong clustering at short inter-event time ranges and weak clustering at long time ranges. When the algorithm of Gardner and Knopoff is used, the CACs show strong correlation with a weak background at the short inter-event time ranges. The fit of the CACs using the Poissonian background model is successful at short and intermediate inter-event time ranges, but deviates at long ranges. The observed deviation shows that the residual catalog obtained after declustering remains non-Poissonian at long time ranges. The apparent background fraction can be estimated directly from the CAC fit. The CACs using the algorithms of Reasenberg and Zhuang et al. show a relatively similar behavior, with a time correlation decreasing more rapidly than the CACs of Gardner and Knopoff for shorter time ranges. This study offers a novel approach for the study of different types of clustering produced as a result of various hypotheses used to account for different backgrounds. 相似文献
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相似地震是具有相似波形记录的一组地震,往往以地震丛集的方式发生.而重复地震是一种特殊的相似地震,一般具有相近的震源机制解和几乎重合的破裂面积.对相似地震特别是重复地震的研究是我们认识断层的结构和变化的重要手段.本文提出了一种基于相似度距离概念和聚类分析技术的相似地震识别方法,可以利用单个台站对其记录到的地震事件进行快速的相似地震和重复地震识别.我们将此方法应用于汶川地震东北端的余震序列,获得了该地区相似地震的分布图像,并对其中存在的重复地震的发震机制进行了讨论分析. 相似文献
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Wavelet-based multifractal analysis of earthquakes temporal distribution in Mammoth Mountain volcano,Mono County,Eastern California 总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0
This paper presents a wavelet-based multifractal approach to characterize the statistical properties of temporal distribution of the 1982–2012 seismic activity in Mammoth Mountain volcano. The fractal analysis of time-occurrence series of seismicity has been carried out in relation to seismic swarm in association with magmatic intrusion happening beneath the volcano on 4 May 1989. We used the wavelet transform modulus maxima based multifractal formalism to get the multifractal characteristics of seismicity before, during, and after the unrest. The results revealed that the earthquake sequences across the study area show time-scaling features. It is clearly perceived that the multifractal characteristics are not constant in different periods and there are differences among the seismicity sequences. The attributes of singularity spectrum have been utilized to determine the complexity of seismicity for each period. Findings show that the temporal distribution of earthquakes for swarm period was simpler with respect to pre- and post-swarm periods. 相似文献
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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
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地震活动性的多重分维特征 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
本文根据多重分维的定义,研究了华北和西北地区地震的空间和时间分布的多重分维特征。结果表明,地震时空分布的多重分维特征能较好地描述地震时空分布的有序性。一般在地震活动性较强的阶段,多重分维D_q,尤其是高阶的D_q有明显的异常变化,其D_q—q曲线较陡;而D_q—q曲线变化较平缓的阶段,统计区内一般无大震发生。 相似文献
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Maria I. Todorovska 《Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering》1994,13(6):399-405
In this paper, probability distribution functions are derived for the order statistics of various functionals of strong ground motion at a site. These functionals can be: Modified Mercalli Intensity (MMI), peak ground acceleration (PGA), Fourier spectral amplitudes of acceleration, response spectrum amplitudes (spectral displacement, pseudo-spectral velocity and pseudo-spectral acceleration), and amplitudes of the peaks (local maxima and local minima) in the time historyof the response of SDOF and MDOF structures at the site. Three parameters of the response of a structure are considered: displacement, shear force and bending moment at each level (storey) of the structure. The earthquake sources contributing to the risk of ground motion at the site are a number of point, area or volume sources, each with defined frequency of occurence-magnitude relationship. The magnitudes of the possible events at these sources are discretized, and the occurrence of events of different magnitudes are assumed to be statistically independent. For each magnitude, it is assumed that the eartquakes occur in a Poissonian sequence or in a renewal process which is a generalization of the Poissonian. For these assumptions, the probability distribution functions are presented for the number of earthquakes, n, during which a given level of site or structural response is exceeded during the exposure time, and for the return period of the exceedances. For example, for single-degree- of-freedom: (SDOF) or multi-degree-of-freedom structures, (MDOF) n can be the number of earthquakes during which the response of a storey will exceed a given level at least m times(m = 1, 2, 3,…) during the exposure time. These probability distribution functions can be used to extend the concept of uniform probability functionals to more than one exceedance. A more important application is to generalize the uniform probability functionals method of site response (uniform probability Fourier or response spectra) to uniform probability envelopes of displacement, shears and bending moments of a given structure. The uniform probability envelopes can be for exceedance at least once during at least one earthquake, or, in general, for exceedance at least m times per earthquake (m = 1, 2,…) during at least n earthquakes. In other words, during at least n earthquakes at least m peaks in the response can be higher than the specified level. Such uniform probability envelopes can be used (1) to define new design guidelines for building codes based on cost-benefit analysis; (2) to construct more refined probability distribution functions for the damage and total economic losses caused by earthquakes; and (3) to develop planning and decision strategies on strengthening and retrofitting existing buildings. 相似文献
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We examine the spatial distribution of earthquake hypocenters in four central California areas: the aftershock zones of the (1) 1984 Morgan Hill (2) 1979 Coyote Lake, and (3) 1983 Coalinga earthquakes, as well as (4) the aseismically creeping area around Hollister. The basic tool we use to analyze these data are frequency distributions of interevent distances between earthquakes. These distributions are evaluated on the basis of their deviation from what would be expected if earthquakes occurred randomly in the study areas. We find that both background seismic activity and aftershocks in the study areas exhibit nonrandom spatial distribution. Two major spatial patterns, clustering at small distances and anomalies at larger distances, are observed depending on tectonic setting. While both patterns are seen in the strike-slip environments along the Calaveras fault (Morgan Hill, Coyote Lake, and Hollister), aftershocks of the Coalinga event (a thrust earthquake) seem to be characterized by clustering only. The spatial distribution of earthquakes in areas gradually decreasing in size does not seem to support the hypothesis of a self-similar distribution over the range of scales studied here, regardless of tectonic setting. Spatial distributions are independent of magnitude for the Coalinga aftershocks, but events in strike-slip environments show increasing clustering with increasing magnitude. Finally, earthquake spatial distributions vary in time showing different patterns before, during, and following the end of aftershock sequences. 相似文献
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For the Fiji-Tonga-Kermadec area and for the period from January 1977 to July 2003, the Harvard CMT catalogue lists 1022 shallow,
410 intermediate and 633 deep earthquakes of moment magnitude from 4.9 to 8.0. The magnitude threshold, above which the catalogue
is complete, is 5.3–5.4, and the number of earthquakes of magnitude above this value is 691 for shallow, 329 for intermediate
and 476 for deep events, respectively. The proportion of earthquakes associated with doublets and multiplets against the total
number of earthquakes is approximately the same in both data sets and therefore all earthquake pairs were considered regardless
of their magnitude. We investigated all the pairs of earthquakes that occurred at a centroid distance of less than 40, 60
or 90 km from each other and within a time interval of 200, 300 or 450 days, depending on their magnitude. We found 208 pairs
of shallow, 31 of intermediate and 92 of deep events. To ascertain whether these earthquakes in pairs are not connected by
chance, the possibility of their occurrence in an uncorrelated Poissonian catalogue was considered. It was assumed that in
such a catalogue the inter-event time is exponentially distributed, the earthquake magnitude follows the Gutenberg-Richter
relation, and the distribution of centroid distances between the events in pairs is controlled by its non-parametric kernel
estimate. The probability of the appearance of the observed proportion of doublets of shallow earthquakes in the Poissonian
catalogue was found to be very low. The low probability of occurrence in a semi-random catalogue, created by randomising centroid
locations in the actual data set, also indicates major importance of the distance criterion used for a doublet specification.
In general, shallow earthquakes tend to form pairs at shorter distances and within shorter time intervals than deep earthquakes.
Both the distance and the time intervals do not depend on the magnitude of involved events. The largest number of pairs of
deep earthquakes is observed at a depth of about 600 km, and the proportion of deep events associated with doublets against
the number of all events increases with depth. From comparison of the focal mechanism of earthquakes in pairs, measured by
the 3-D rotation angle, it follows that deep earthquakes forming pairs have a more diverse focal mechanism than shallow events;
the rotation angle for three quarters of shallow pairs and only for about one third of deep pairs is reasonably small. The
azimuth between two events forming a doublet is in about 60–65% of cases close to the strike of one of nodal planes of the
first or the second event. 相似文献
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Using multifractal spectrum estimating method based on the wavelet,the multifractal characteristics of GSR of earthquakes in China,Japan and New Zealand regions have been studied.It is shown that the multifractal spectra of GSR are obviously different in inter-and intra-plate regions.Moreover,though Japan and New ZeaIand are all located at the boundary of plates,West and East China are all characterized of continental tectonic structure,the multifractal spectra of GSR for both the two regions are also different.Further analysis shows that the natures of multifractal spectra of GSR are somehow related to the complexity of tectonics. 相似文献
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利用山东及邻区数字地震台网2001- 2012 年的地震观测报告及波形资料分析了沂沭断裂带及周缘地区的地震活动并利用识别出的重复地震估算了断层深部滑动速率。重新定位后的地震图像清晰展示了沂沭断裂带南北两段及东西两侧地震活动的显著差异,在研究时段内,60%以上的地震发生在沂沭带东侧的两条断裂上,震源深度分布与研究区的深部构造吻合。根据波形意义上相似地震(cc≥0.8)的定义,识别出了沂沭断裂带及其周缘相似地震共50例,组成相似地震对和多重相似地震对共19组,相似地震对的复发间隔较为随机,从数小时到数百天不等。通过对相似地震对震源位置- -致性的强约束后,基于1组重复地震估算出安丘-莒县断裂在地表以下5.9km处的滑动速率估计值为2.19mm/a,与GPS和地质等浅表观测的滑动速率值基本一致。 相似文献
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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
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Earthquake hazard in Marmara Region, Turkey 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
M. Erdik M. Demircioglu K. Sesetyan E. Durukal B. Siyahi 《Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering》2004,24(8):605-631
Earthquake hazard in the Marmara Region, Turkey has been investigated using time-independent probabilistic (simple Poissonian) and time-dependent probabilistic (renewal) models. The study culminated in hazard maps of the Marmara Region depicting peak ground acceleration (PGA) and spectral accelerations (SA)'s at 0.2 and 1 s periods corresponding to 10 and 2% probabilities of exceedance in 50 yrs. The historical seismicity, the tectonic models and the known slip rates along the faults constitute the main data used in the assignment. Based on recent findings it has been possible to provide a fault segmentation model for the Marmara Sea. For the main Marmara Fault this model essentially identifies fault segments for different structural, tectonic and geometrical features and historical earthquake occurrences. The damage distribution and pattern of the historical earthquakes have been carefully correlated with this fault segmentation model. The inter-event time period between characteristic earthquakes in these segments is consistently estimated by dividing the seismic slip estimated from the earthquake catalog by the GPS-derived slip rate of 22±3 mm/yr. The remaining segments in the eastern and southern Marmara region are also identified using recent geological, geophysical studies and historical earthquakes. The model assumes that seismic energy along the segments is released by characteristic earthquakes. For the probabilistic studies characteristic earthquake based recurrence relationships are used. Assuming normal distribution of inter-arrival times of characteristic earthquakes, the ‘mean recurrence time’, ‘covariance’ and the ‘time since last earthquake’ are developed for each segment. For the renewal model, the conditional probability for each fault segment is calculated from the mean recurrence interval of the characteristic earthquake, the elapsed time since the last major earthquake and the exposure period. The probabilities are conditional since they change as a function of the time elapsed since the last earthquake. For the background earthquake activity, a spatially smoothed seismicity is determined for each cell of a grid composed of cells of size 0.005°×0.005°. The ground motions are determined for soft rock (NEHRP B/C boundary) conditions. Western US-based attenuation relationships are utilized, since they show a good correlation with the attenuation characteristics of ground motion in the Marmara region. The possibility, that an event ruptures several fault segments (i.e. cascading), is also taken into account and investigated by two possible models of cascading. Differences between Poissonian and renewal models, and also the effect of cascading have been discussed with the help of PGA ratio maps. 相似文献
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In seismological literature, there exist two competing theories (the so-calledW model andL model) treating earthquake scaling relations between mean slip and rupture dimension and between seismic moment and rupture dimension. The core of arguments differentiating the two theories is whether the mean slip should scale with the rupture width or with the rupture length for large earthquakes. In this paper, we apply the elastic theory of dislocation to clarify the controversy. Several static dislocation models are used to simulate strike-slip earthquakes. Our results show that the mean slip scales linearly with the rupture width for small earthquakes with a rupture length smaller than the thickness of the seismogenic layer. However, for large earthquakes with a rupture length larger than the thickness of the seismogenic layer, our models show a more complicated scaling relation between mean slip and rupture dimension. When the rupture length is smaller than a cross-over length, the mean slip scales nearly linearly with the rupture length. When the rupture length is larger than a cross-over length, the mean slip approaches asymptotically a constant value and scales approximately with the rupture width. The cross-over length is a function of the rupture width and is about 75 km for earthquakes with a saturated rupture width of 15 km. We compare our theoretical predictions with observed source parameters of some large strike-slip earthquakes, and they match up well. Our results also suggest that when large earthquakes have a fixed aspect ratio of rupture length to rupture width (which seems to be the case for most subduction earthquakes) the mean slip scales with the rupture dimension in the same way as small earthquakes. 相似文献
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Earthquakes in Iran and neighbouring regions are closely connected to their position within the geologically active Alpine-Himalayan
belt. Modern tectonic activity is forced by the convergent movements between two plates: The Arabian plate, including Saudi
Arabia, the Persian Gulf and the Zagros Ranges of Iran, and the Eurasian plate. The intensive seismic activity in this region
is recorded with shallow focal depth and magnitude rising as high as Mw = 7.8. The study region can be attributed to a highly complex geodynamic process and therefore is well suited for multifractal
seismicity analysis. Multifractal analysis of earthquakes (mb ≥ 3) occurring during 1973 – 2006 led to the detection of a clustering pattern in the narrow time span prior to all the large
earthquakes: Mw = 7.8 on 16.9.1978; Mw = 6.8 on 26.12.2003; Mw = 7.7 on 10.5.97. Based on the spatio-temporal clustering pattern of events, the potential for future large events can be
assessed. Spatio-temporal clustering of events apparently indicates a highly stressed region, an asperity or weak zone from
which the rupture propagation eventually nucleates, causing large earthquakes. This clustering pattern analysis done on a
well-constrained catalogue for most of the fault systems of known seismicity may eventually aid in the preparedness and earthquake
disaster mitigation. 相似文献
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Using the Hill estimator,general multifractal characteristics of events in the New Zealand area have been dis-cussed.Results show that the spatial distribution of shallow events has apparent clustering characteristics,inde-pendent of the threshold magnitude;but for deep events these characteristics are not clear.While the time interval distribution has obvious clustering characteristics both for deep and shallow events,although with a different scal-ing range,the Hill estimates tend to indicate that the time interval distribution has a unifractal rather than a multi-fractal nature.All above reveal that the seismicity nature for shallow and deepevents is apparently different. 相似文献
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利用多重分形维数谱估计的Hill方法，讨论了新西兰地震活动区地震活动的震源分布、震中分布以及时间间隔分布的多重分形特征．结果表明，该地区浅源地震的震中分布和震源分布在给定不同的起始震级的条件下均具有明显的丛集特征；对于中、深源地震这种特征不甚明显．而地震活动时间间隔分布则无论对于浅源和中、深源地震均呈单重分形的性质，但具有分形性质的尺度范围有较大的差别．这些结果表明，浅源地震与中、深源地震的活动特征显著不同． 相似文献