Earthquakes induced by deep penetrating bombing

Introduction The phenomenon of induced seismicity is one of the most widely discussed issues in modern seismology. Many aspects of this problem, particularly remote earthquakes triggered by strong physical impacts on the lithosphere (other strong earthquakes or underground nuclear explosions) are still controversial, and need further elaboration (Console, Nikolaev, 1994). In this paper I discusses remotely triggered seismicity by using observations of seismicity with M≥5.0 (in accordance wi…     

Architectures of Software GPS Receivers

There are various applications in which a Global Positioning System (GPS) sensor only down-converts and digitizes the received GPS signal and sends the digitized data to a processor, where the processor software performs all the correlation, search/track operations, navigation solution, and so on. Among the applications are military and commercial ones (e. g., GPS(Communication handheld sets, people tracking systems). A major problem with the Software GPS Receiver is the large computing resources required for correlation or acquisition of the GPS signal. In this article, several possible approaches for reducing computing resources will be introduced and analyzed. It will be shown that the performance of the GPS software design strongly depends on the features of the computer hardware. Implementations will be described on the TMS320C6201 processor and the Pentium II. Experimental results will be demonstrated by processing of real GPS signals. A complete 16-channel GPS receiver was implemented on the single TMS320C6201 processor in real-time mode and on the Pentium II processor with a duty cycle of about 50%. ? 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

MHD Simulations of Crab's Jet and Torus

The Crab nebula is regarded as one of the most important “cosmic laboratories” in astrophysics, which has made a bigger impact on the development of astronomy than any other single object beyond the solar system. The most intriguing recent result is the completely unexpected discovery of a peculiar “jet-torus” structure in the inner part of the nebula. Similar structures were found later in other Crab-like nebulae. This discovery clearly indicates significant anisotropy of the wind from the Crab pulsar which has been ignored so far in simplified theoretical models of the nebula. Fortunately, the impressive progress in computational relativistic magnetohydrodynamics in recent years has made possible to study the Crab nebula without making such a drastic simplification of the problem. In this paper we present the results of the first study of such kind. They provide a likely explanation of the jet-torus pattern and show that the flow in the nebula is much more complex than it has been widely believed.     

Magnetic basement: gravity‐guided magnetic source depth analysis and interpretation

We present a new integrated approach to the interpretation of magnetic basement that is based on recognition of characteristic patterns in distributions and alignments of magnetic source depth solutions above and below the surface of magnetic basement. This approach integrates a quantitative analysis of depth solutions, obtained by 2D Werner deconvolution of the magnetic data, with a qualitative evaluation of the Bouguer gravity anomalies. The crystalline/metamorphic basement and sedimentary cover have different origins, tectonic histories, lithologies and magnetic properties. These differences result in different geometries of magnetic sources associated with faults, fracture zones, igneous intrusions, erosional truncations, subcrop edges and other structural discontinuities. Properly tuned, 2D Werner deconvolution is able to resolve the intra‐sedimentary and intra‐basement magnetic source geometries into distinctly different distributions and alignments of calculated depth solutions. An empirical set of criteria, basement indicators, was developed for identification and correlation of the basement surface. The ambiguity of basement correlation with limited or non‐existent well control, which is common for onshore frontier and offshore explorations, can be reduced by incorporating the Bouguer gravity data into the process of correlation.     

钻地炸弹爆炸诱发了地震？

提供4次钻地炸弹爆炸前、 后各一年内在离爆点分别为500 km和1 000 km范围内发生的Mge;5地震的活动情况. 4次爆炸分别为1999年南斯拉夫科索沃的爆炸、 1991年伊拉克巴格达的爆炸、 2001年阿富汗托拉波拉的爆炸和2003年伊拉克基尔库克的爆炸. 地震活动资料表明钻地炸弹爆炸可能触发了一些远处的地震. 在地震活动区应该禁止进行钻地炸弹爆炸.