The Tornquist Zone, a north east inclining lithospheric transition at the south western margin of the Baltic Shield: Revealed through a nonlinear teleseismic tomographic inversion

From July 1996 to August 1997 the TOR project operated 130 seismographs in North Germany, Denmark and South Sweden, with the aim of collecting signals from local, regional and teleseismic earthquakes. This data set is particularly interesting since the seismic antenna crosses the most significant geological boundary in Europe, the Tornquist Zone, which in the northern part is the border between the Baltic Shield and the younger European lithosphere. Previous studies have shown significant physical changes in the crust and upper mantle across this transition zone, including two independent teleseismic tomographic studies of the TOR data set. But these two studies disagree on the orientation of the slope of the transition. Both studies used an iterative linearized inversion method. We will in this work Preprint submitted to Elsevier Science 27 July 2005 present an inversion based on Bayesian statistics, where the solution space is examined in order to study a very large number of tomographic solutions and to examine the solution uniqueness and uncertainty. The method is applied to measurements of 3345 relative teleseismic P-phase travel times from 48 teleseismic earthquakes with good azimuthal coverage with respect to the great circle arc of the TOR array. We find the lithospheric transition to be a north east inclination of around 30° to 45° off vertical.     

深层地震勘探激发井深探讨

深层地震勘探野外资料采集的关键是在保证原始资料一定信噪比的基础上,同时兼顾分辨率,激发井深是决定资料品质的重要因素之一。通过对虚反射滤波作用分析,提出了充分利用虚反射能量设计最佳激发井深,增强下传地震波能量的采集方法。理论分析和试验资料表明,在高速层下4～7m的最佳激发岩性深度是深层勘探的理想井深。     

亚洲地震委员会(ASC)第七次学术大会暨日本地震学会(SSJ)秋季会议在日本筑波召开

由亚洲地震委员会和日本地震学会联合主办,日本多个学术机构参与协办的第七届亚洲地震委员会学术大会暨日本地震学会秋季会议于2008年11月24--28日在日本筑波(Tsukuba)举行.     

A Nonlinear Model of Surf Beat

A nonlinear short-wave-averaged (surf beat) model is presented. The model is based on that of Roelvink (1993), but the numerical techniques used in the solution are based on the so-called weighted-averaged flux (WAF) method (eg Watson et al., 1992), with time-operator splitting used for the treatment of some of the source terms. This method allows a small number of computational points to be used, and is particularly efficient in modelling breaking long waves. The short-wave (or primary-wave) energy equation is solved using a more traditional Lax-Wendroff technique. Results of validation indicate that the model performs satisfactorily in most respects.     

五寨4.8ML地震宏观考察与震害评估

本文介绍了对１９９３的９月１１日五寨４．８ＭＬ地震的考察情况，确定宏观震中在五寨县丰兑坡与河曲县土沟村一带，震中烈度为６度。计算得出本次地震的总经济损失约１５万元。     

Laihunite—A new iron silicate mineral

Laihuite reported in the present paper is a new iron silicate mineral found in China with the following characteristics:

1. This mineral occurs in a metamorphic iron deposit, associated with fayalite, hypersthene, quartz, magnetitc, etc.
2. The mineral is opaque, black in colour, thickly tabular in shape with luster metallic to sub-metallic, two perfect cleavages and specific gravity of 3.92.
3. Its main chemical components are Fe and Si with Fe³⁺>Fe²⁺. The analysis gave the formula of Fe Fe _1.00 ³⁺ ·Fe _0.58 ²⁺ ·Mg _0.03 ²⁺ ·Si_0.96O₄.
4. Its DTA curve shows an exothermic peak at 713°C.
5. The mineral has its own infrared spectrum distinctive from that of other minerals.
6. This mineral is of orthorhombic system; space group:C _2h ^/5 ?P2₁/c; unit cell:α=5.813ű0.005,b=4.812ű0.005,c=10.211ű0.005,β=90.87°.
7. The Mössbauer spectrum of this mineral is given, too.

     

1989年大同—阳高地震现场分析预报工作回顾

叙述了1989大同—阳高地震的基本情况,回顾了此次地震现场的分析预报工作。按照《地震现场工作大纲和震情分析指南》所确定的原则,采用国内常用的一些方法,对此次地震的类型、震前活动、地震趋势、余震活动等做了分析。并对几次强余震的预报过程进行了讨论。     

一次雹暴的特征随时间演变的分析

冰雹通常由强烈的积雨,即所谓雹暴中形成。在雹暴的整个生命过程中,无论是外观还是内部特征,都在不停地发生着变化。由于这种变化十分激烈和迅速,大冰雹往往就在某一短时间内(通常不超过30分钟)生长并危害农业。加上此时伴随着闪电大风大雨,要观测它甚为困难。因此,人们至今对其演变的许多方面还缺乏详细和确切的的认识。