Statistical analysis on energy field of seismicity in Ningxia and its neighborhood region

IntroductionOneofnotablefeaturesofseismicityistherandomoccurrenceofearthquakesinspaceandtime.Oneessentialelementofseismicityisthatearthquakereleasedenergycanbetakenastherandomfunctionsofspatialandtemporalcoordinates.Therandomfunctioncanbecalledseismicityenergystochasticfieldorearthquakeenergyfield.Sincetheseismicityisrelatedinspaceandtime,usingtheconceptofstochasticfield,thetotalfeatureofregionalseismicactivitycanbeconsidered,ratherthanthestatisticsofasingleearthquakeinthepast.Therefore,thefe…

Statistical analysis on energy field of seismicity in Ningxia and its neighborhood region

The random function theory is used in the paper. Taking the regional seismicity energy as the random function of space and time, the features of small seismicity field in Ningxia and its neighborhood region are studied by the analytical method of natural orthogonal function expansion. The chief part of the field, i.e., the temporal changes of time weight coefficients of first several typical fields is analyzed. We have found that their values had upward and downward changes of a large amplitude before moderate-strong earthquakes and showed variation features correlating to moderate-strong earthquakes occurred in the region and its surrounding areas. From the earthquake examples in Ningxia region, we can make the conclusion that the method of natural orthogonal function expansion of earthquake energy stochastic field is an earthquake analysis and prediction method that is worth further exploration.