Statistical property of candidate earthquake precursors and its apparent focal mechanism dependence |
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Authors: | Wu Zhong-liang and Wang Lin-ying |
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Institution: | (1) College of Earth Science, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100039 Beijing, China;(2) Institute of Geophysics, China Earthquake Administration, 100081 Beijing, China |
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Abstract: | Statistical properties of reported earthquake precursors show apparent focal mechanism dependence. Intensity of anomaly is
described by the ‘anomaly ratio’ as defined by the number of stations/items reporting anomalies before the target earthquake
over the number of stations/items in operation around the target earthquake. Variation of the ‘anomaly ratio’ with the magnitude
of the target earthquake was studied for dip-slip earthquakes all over China, strike-slip earthquakes in eastern China, and
strike-slip earthquakes in western China, respectively. It is observed that for strike-slip earthquakes, the ‘anomaly ratio’
increases linearly with the magnitude of the target earthquake, while earthquakes in eastern China and western China have
different slopes. For dip-slip earthquakes, however, the ‘anomaly ratio’ has no statistically significant change with the
magnitude of the target earthquake. Limited data imply that the ‘anomaly ratio’ seems proportional to the apparent stress
of the target earthquake. The result might be heuristic for the analysis of candidate earthquake precursors.
Foundation item: National Natural Science Foundation of China (40274013) and MOST Project (2001BA601B02).
Contribution No.04FE1020, Institute of Geophysics, China Earthquake Administration. |
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Keywords: | earthquake precursor focal mechanism apparent stress |
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