Site term from single-station sigma analysis of S-waves in western Turkey

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 1037-1057
Author(s):  
Nihal Akyol
Author(s):  
Michael J. Kozuch ◽  
Mark Chadwick

We present the results of using seismic waveform data to show that the elliptical nature of isoseismal distributions in New Zealand is related to regional structural trends. The data also suggest that there are regional and azimuthal variations in the attenuation of coda waves, which may need to be considered in ground motion attenuation relations. We stacked over 20,000 waveforms from the New Zealand seismographic network. The data were filtered, normalized and stacked. Noisy or clipped records were down-weighted or removed. We also treated dense networks as a single station and generated a single stack for these networks. Stacks of shallow earthquake sources are presented by region and azimuth. Variations in coda length throughout New Zealand suggest regions of high scattering. Strong azimuthal dependence in the coda is observed for non-volcanic zone stations. NE-SW waveform stacks, which follow the strike of the subduction zone, contain significantly longer codas than those with NW-SE raypaths. Long coda trains are also observed in the volcanic and geothermal zones yet there is little or no apparent azimuthal variation. These coda are particularly strong throughout the records which explains the difficulty analysts have had in picking S waves.


Author(s):  
I. A. Shibaev ◽  
V. A. Vinnikov ◽  
G. D. Stepanov

Geological engineering often uses geomechanical modeling aimed to enhance efficiency of mining or performance of structures. One of the input parameters for such models are the static elastic moduli of rocks. This article presents the studies into the physical and mechanical properties of rocks-limestone of non-metamorphic diagenesis. The precision measurements of Pand S-waves are carried out to an accuracy of 0.2% by laser ultrasonics. The static moduli of elasticity and the deformation characteristics of rocks are determined in the uniaxial compression tests by the standards of GOST 21153.2-84 and GOST 28985-91, respectively. The correlation dependence is found between the static and dynamic elasticity moduli in limestone samples. The found correlation allows drawing the conclusion that the static modulus of elasticity can be estimated in non-destructive tests, which largely simplifies preliminary diagnostics of samples in case of limited number of test core.


2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-57
Author(s):  
V.M. Loskot ◽  
G.B. Bakhtadze

Geographic distribution and habitat preferences of Saxicola rubicola rubicola (Linnaeus, 1766), S. maurus variegatus (S.G. Gmelin, 1774), and S. m. armenicus (Stegman, 1935) inhabiting the Caucasian Isthmus and adjacent areas are described in detail. We examined the individual, sexual, age, seasonal and geographical variations of seven main diagnostic features of both plumage and morphometrics (exactly, the length of wing and tail) using 381 skin specimens. Substantially improved diagnoses of S. m. variegatus and S. m. armenicus are provided. After a thorough examination of the materials and history of the expedition of Samuel Gmelin in 1768–1774, and his description of Parus variegatus, it was concluded that the type locality of this taxon was the vicinity of Shamakhi in Azerbaijan not Enzeli in North-Western Turkey. It is also shown the fallacy of the recently proposed attribution of the holotype of the northern subspecies S. m. variegatus to the southern taxon S. m. armenicus and synonymisation of these names, as well as the replacement of the name S. m. variegatus by its junior synonym S. m. hemrichii Ehrenberg, 1833 for the northern subspecies.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Riddick ◽  
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Joseph I. Boyce ◽  
Vasıf Şahoğlu ◽  
Irfan Tuğcuc ◽  
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Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 1178
Author(s):  
Bo Sun ◽  
Bo Tan ◽  
Wenbo Wang ◽  
Elena Simona Lohan

The 5G network is considered as the essential underpinning infrastructure of manned and unmanned autonomous machines, such as drones and vehicles. Besides aiming to achieve reliable and low-latency wireless connectivity, positioning is another function provided by the 5G network to support the autonomous machines as the coexistence with the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is typically supported on smart 5G devices. This paper is a pilot study of using 5G uplink physical layer channel sounding reference signals (SRSs) for 3D user equipment (UE) positioning. The 3D positioning capability is backed by the uniform rectangular array (URA) on the base station and by the multiple subcarrier nature of the SRS. In this work, the subspace-based joint angle-time estimation and statistics-based expectation-maximization (EM) algorithms are investigated with the 3D signal manifold to prove the feasibility of using SRSs for 3D positioning. The positioning performance of both algorithms is evaluated by estimation of the root mean squared error (RMSE) versus the varying signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR), the bandwidth, the antenna array configuration, and multipath scenarios. The simulation results show that the uplink SRS works well for 3D UE positioning with a single base station, by providing a flexible resolution and accuracy for diverse application scenarios with the support of the phased array and signal estimation algorithms at the base station.


2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 212-217
Author(s):  
Katsunobu Sasanuma ◽  
Alan Scheller-Wolf

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