Hypocentral Depth Determination of Gyeongju Earthquake Aftershock Sequence

Tae Woong Chung; Muhammad Zafar Iqbal

doi:10.7582/gge.2017.20.1.049

Hypocentral Depth Determination of Gyeongju Earthquake Aftershock Sequence

Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration ◽

10.7582/gge.2017.20.1.049 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

pp. 49-55 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Tae Woong Chung ◽

Muhammad Zafar Iqbal

Keyword(s):

Aftershock Sequence ◽

Depth Determination ◽

Gyeongju Earthquake

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Core depth determination of a slightly buried Si-wire waveguide with a reduced bend loss

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics ◽

10.35848/1347-4065/ac06b4 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Tatsuya Aso ◽

Takehiro Ishiguro ◽

Junji Yamauchi ◽

Hisamatsu Nakano

Keyword(s):

Depth Determination ◽

Core Depth

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Statistical physics models for aftershocks and induced seismicity

Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences ◽

10.1098/rsta.2017.0397 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 377 (2136) ◽

pp. 20170397 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Molly Luginbuhl ◽

John B. Rundle ◽

Donald L. Turcotte

Keyword(s):

Induced Seismicity ◽

Statistical Physics ◽

Aftershock Sequence ◽

Induced Earthquakes ◽

Aftershock Activity ◽

Gas Field ◽

Natural Time ◽

Parkfield Earthquake ◽

Groningen Gas Field

A standard approach to quantifying the seismic hazard is the relative intensity (RI) method. It is assumed that the rate of seismicity is constant in time and the rate of occurrence of small earthquakes is extrapolated to large earthquakes using Gutenberg–Richter scaling. We introduce nowcasting to extend RI forecasting to time-dependent seismicity, for example, during an aftershock sequence. Nowcasting uses ‘natural time’; in seismicity natural time is the event count of small earthquakes. The event count for small earthquakes is extrapolated to larger earthquakes using Gutenberg–Richter scaling. We first review the concepts of natural time and nowcasting and then illustrate seismic nowcasting with three examples. We first consider the aftershock sequence of the 2004 Parkfield earthquake on the San Andreas fault in California. Some earthquakes have higher rates of aftershock activity than other earthquakes of the same magnitude. Our approach allows the determination of the rate in real time during the aftershock sequence. We also consider two examples of induced earthquakes. Large injections of waste water from petroleum extraction have generated high rates of induced seismicity in Oklahoma. The extraction of natural gas from the Groningen gas field in The Netherlands has also generated very damaging earthquakes. In order to reduce the seismic activity, rates of injection and withdrawal have been reduced in these two cases. We show how nowcasting can be used to assess the success of these efforts. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Statistical physics of fracture and earthquakes’.

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