scholarly journals Seismicity of Turkey and Real-Time Seismology Applications in Determining Earthquake Hazard

Author(s):  
Dogan KALAFAT ◽  
A. Can ZÜLFİKAR ◽  
Seyhan OKUYAN AKCAN
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Author(s):  
Martin Zaleski ◽  
Gerald Ferris ◽  
Alex Baumgard

Earthquake hazard management for oil and gas pipelines should include both preparedness and response. The typical approach for management of seismic hazards for pipelines is to determine where large ground motions are frequently expected, and apply mitigation to those pipeline segments. The approach presented in this paper supplements the typical approach but focuses on what to do, and where to do it, just after an earthquake happens. In other words, we ask and answer: “Is the earthquake we just had important?”, “What pipeline is and what sites might it be important for?”, and “What should we do?” In general, modern, high-pressure oil and gas pipelines resist the direct effects of strong shaking, but are vulnerable to large co-seismic differential permanent ground displacement (PGD) produced by surface fault rupture, landslides, soil liquefaction, or lateral spreading. The approach used in this paper employs empirical relationships between earthquake magnitude, distance, and the occurrence of PGD, derived from co-seismic PGD case-history data, to prioritize affected pipeline segments for detailed site-specific hazard assessments, pre-event resiliency upgrades, and post-event response. To help pipeline operators prepare for earthquakes, pipeline networks are mapped with respect to earthquake probability and co-seismic PGD susceptibility. Geological and terrain analyses identify pipeline segments that cross PGD-susceptible ground. Probabilistic seismic models and deterministic scenarios are considered in estimating the frequency of sufficiently large and close causative earthquakes. Pipeline segments are prioritized where strong earthquakes are frequent and ground is susceptible to co-seismic PGD. These may be short-listed for mitigation that either reduces the pipeline’s vulnerability to damage or limits failure consequences. When an earthquake occurs, pipeline segments with credible PGD potential are highlighted within minutes of an earthquake’s occurrence. These assessments occur in near-real-time as part of an online geohazard management database. The system collects magnitude and location data from online earthquake data feeds and intersects them against pipeline network and terrain hazard map data. Pipeline operators can quickly mobilize inspection and response resources to a focused area of concern.


Nature ◽  
10.1038/37280 ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 390 (6659) ◽  
pp. 461-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroo Kanamori ◽  
Egill Hauksson ◽  
Thomas Heaton

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 193-198
Author(s):  
Hyeju Oh ◽  
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Jieun Im ◽  
Yelim Lee ◽  
Sanghoo Yoon ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Jiang ◽  
Yang Gao ◽  
Michael Sideris

<p>To provide hazard assessment in rapid or real-time mode, accelerations due to seismic waves have traditionally been recorded by seismometers. Another approach, based on the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), known as GNSS seismology, has become increasingly accurate and reliable. In the past decade, significant improvements have been made in high-rate GNSS using precise point positioning and its ambiguity resolution (PPPAR). To reach cm-level accuracy, however, PPPAR requires specific products, including satellite orbit/clock corrections and phase/code biases generated by large GNSS networks. Therefore, the use of PPPAR in real-time seismology applications has been inhibited by the limitations in product accessibility, latency, and accuracy. To minimize the implementation barrier for ordinary global users, the Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) in France has launched a public PPPAR correction service via real-time internet streams. Broadcasting via the real-time service (RTS) of the international GNSS service (IGS), the correction stream is freely provided. Therefore, in our work, a new approach using PPPAR assisted with the CNES product to process high-rate in-field GNSS measurements is proposed for real-time earthquake hazard assessment. A case study is presented for the Ridgecrest, California earthquake sequence in 2019. The general performance of our approach is evaluated by assessing the quality of the resulting waveforms against publicly available post-processing GNSS results from a previous study by Melgar et al. (2019), Seismol. Res. Lett. XX, 1–9, doi: 10.1785/ 0220190223. Even though the derived real-time displacements are noisy due to the accuracy limitation of the CNES product, the results show a cm-level agreement with the provided post-processed control values in terms of root-mean-square (RMS) values in time and frequency domain, as well as seismic features of peak-ground-displacement (PGD) and peak-ground-velocity (PGV). Overall, we have shown that high-rate GNSS processing based on PPPAR via a freely accessible service like CNES is a reliable approach that can be utilized for real-time seismic hazard assessment.</p>


2018 ◽  
Vol 763 ◽  
pp. 566-575 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chinmoy Kolay ◽  
James M. Ricles ◽  
Thomas M. Marullo ◽  
Safwan Al-Subaihawi ◽  
Spencer E. Quiel

The essence of real-time hybrid simulation (RTHS) is its ability to combine the benefits ofphysical testing with those of computational simulations. Therefore, an understanding of the real-timecomputational issues and challenges is important, especially for RTHS of large systems, in advancingthe state of the art. To this end, RTHS of a 40-story (plus 4 basement stories) tall building havingnonlinear energy dissipation devices for mitigation of multiple natural hazards, including earthquakeand wind events, were conducted at the NHERI Lehigh Experimental Facility. An efficient implementationprocedure of the recently proposed explicit modified KR-a (MKR-a) method was developedfor performing the RTHS. This paper discusses this implementation procedure and the real-time computationalissues and challenges with regard to this implementation procedure. Some results from theRTHS involving earthquake loading are presented to highlight the need for and application of RTHSin performance based design of tall buildings under earthquake hazard.


1997 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 815-832 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald T. Eguchi ◽  
James D. Goltz ◽  
Hope A. Seligson ◽  
Paul J. Flores ◽  
Neil C. Blais ◽  
...  

At the time of the Northridge earthquake, a number of new technologies, including real-time availability of earthquake source data, improved loss estimation techniques, Geographic Information Systems and various satellite-based monitoring systems, were either available or under consideration as emergency management resources. The potential benefits from these technologies for earthquake hazard mitigation, response and recovery, however, were largely conceptual. One of the major lessons learned from the January 17, 1994 earthquake was that these technologies could confer significant advantages in understanding and managing a major disaster, and that their integration would contribute a significant additional increment of utility. In the two and half years since the Northridge earthquake, important strides have been taken toward the integration of relatively discrete technologies in a system which provides real-time estimates of regional damage, losses and population impacts. This paper will describe the development, operation and application of the first real-time loss estimation system to be utilized by an emergency services organization.


2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (20) ◽  
pp. 761-766
Author(s):  
Jae-Soon Choi ◽  
Woo-Hyun Baek ◽  
Oh-Gyu Kwon

1979 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 41-47
Author(s):  
Donald A. Landman

This paper describes some recent results of our quiescent prominence spectrometry program at the Mees Solar Observatory on Haleakala. The observations were made with the 25 cm coronagraph/coudé spectrograph system using a silicon vidicon detector. This detector consists of 500 contiguous channels covering approximately 6 or 80 Å, depending on the grating used. The instrument is interfaced to the Observatory’s PDP 11/45 computer system, and has the important advantages of wide spectral response, linearity and signal-averaging with real-time display. Its principal drawback is the relatively small target size. For the present work, the aperture was about 3″ × 5″. Absolute intensity calibrations were made by measuring quiet regions near sun center.


Author(s):  
Alan S. Rudolph ◽  
Ronald R. Price

We have employed cryoelectron microscopy to visualize events that occur during the freeze-drying of artificial membranes by employing real time video capture techniques. Artificial membranes or liposomes which are spherical structures within internal aqueous space are stabilized by water which provides the driving force for spontaneous self-assembly of these structures. Previous assays of damage to these structures which are induced by freeze drying reveal that the two principal deleterious events that occur are 1) fusion of liposomes and 2) leakage of contents trapped within the liposome [1]. In the past the only way to access these events was to examine the liposomes following the dehydration event. This technique allows the event to be monitored in real time as the liposomes destabilize and as water is sublimed at cryo temperatures in the vacuum of the microscope. The method by which liposomes are compromised by freeze-drying are largely unknown. This technique has shown that cryo-protectants such as glycerol and carbohydrates are able to maintain liposomal structure throughout the drying process.


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