U.S.-New Zealand Cooperative Research: The PANDA Seismic Array - Implementation of a Seismological Study

该奖项将使博士之间的合作研究。来自孟菲斯州立大学地震研究中心的Jer-Ming Chiu和Steven Wesnousky，康奈尔大学的Bryan Isacks博士，以及新西兰科学与工业研究部地球物理处的Terry Webb博士。Drs。Chiu、Wesnousky和Isacks将与新西兰的科学家会面，协调部署用于数值数据采集的便携式地震阵列（PANDA）的准备工作。将计划在新西兰北岛部署地震阵列，以确定活跃岛弧俯冲带内地壳和地幔物质的结构。新西兰北岛具有独特的地理特征。在该地区部署PANDA阵列将获得丰富的地震资料，这些资料直接关系到地震断层的力学行为、地震危险性、浅层地壳岩浆体成像以及场地响应对短周期地震振幅和频率内容的影响等问题。

This award will enable collaborative research between Drs. Jer-Ming Chiu and Steven Wesnousky of the Center for Earthquake Research at Memphis State University, Dr. Bryan Isacks of Cornell University, and Dr. Terry Webb of the Geophysics Division of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Zealand. Drs. Chiu, Wesnousky and Isacks will meet with scientists in New Zealand to coordinate preparations for the deployment of a portable seismic array designed for numerical data aquisition (PANDA). Plans will be made to deploy the seismic array on the North Island of New Zealand in order to determine the structure of crust and mantle material within an active island-arc subduction zone. The north Island of New Zealand presents unique geographic characteristics. Deployment of the PANDA array in this region would yield abundant seismic data which bear directly upon questions related to mechanical behavior of earthquake faults, seismic hazard, imaging of magma bodies in the shallow crust, and the effect of site response on the amplitude and frequency content of short-period seismograms.