Seismicity parameters preceding moderate to major earthquakes
Seismicity parameters preceding moderate to major earthquakes
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中到大地震前的地震活动参数
DOI:
10.1029/jb086ib10p09325
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发表时间:
1981
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通讯作者:
C. Baag
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作者:
D. V. Seggern;S. Alexander;C. Baag
Seismic events reported in the bulletins of the two large arrays, LASA and NORSAR, were merged with those from the NEIS bulletin for the period 1970–1977. Using a lower cutoff of mb = 5.8, 510 ‘main shocks’ within the P range of LASA or NORSAR were selected for this period; and various seismicity trends prior to them were investigated. A search for definite foreshocks, based on a significantly short time delay to the main shock, revealed that the true rate of foreshock occurrence was less than 20%. Foreshocks are almost exclusively associated with shallow (h 100 km) was demonstrated. For shallow events (<100 km) this variable reveals numerous instances of clustering and spatial-temporal seismic gaps, with little tendency toward a uniformity of behavior prior to main shocks. A statistical test of the validity of seismic precursors was performed for approximately 90 main shock regions which had sufficient seismicity. Using a five-variable vector (interevent time, interevent distance, magnitude, epicentral distance to main shock, and depth difference relative to main shock) for each event in a ‘precursory’ time window of 500 days before the main shock and for each event in a ‘normal’ time window of 500 days before that, the null hypothesis of equal vector means between the two groups was tested. At 90% confidence level, less than 30% of the main shock regions were thus found to exhibit precursory seismicity changes.
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