Journal of Physics of the Earth
Online ISSN : 1884-2305
Print ISSN : 0022-3743
ISSN-L : 0022-3743
HIGH RESOLUTION RELATIVE HYPOCENTERS OF SIMILAR EARTHQUAKES BY CROSS-SPECTRAL ANALYSIS METHOD
Akihiko ITO
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1985 Volume 33 Issue 4 Pages 279-294

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Temporal seismic observation at Kamikuga (KKG) in Tochigi Prefecture was carried out from December 18, 1982 to February 11, 1983. Four temporal stations have been installed and more than 300 seismic events have been observed. Cross-spectral analysis method (CSAM) are applied for the precise determination of relative hypocenters of microearthquakes. An earthquake swarm, which consists of events with very similar waveforms, was analyzed by CSAM. For some groups of similar earthquakes, it has been demonstrated that relative hypocenters are determined, with an accuracy of about 50 m. We found two kinds of such groups of similar earthquakes. The first kind is characterized by similar earthquakes, occurring in a very short time interval within a very small area. Characteristic separation among the hypocenters of similar events is smaller than a wavelength of P-waves. The second kind is characterized by similar events occurring rather intermittently in a region with a linear dimension much larger than the wavelength. Although the former would correspond to stick-slip similar events studied by many seismologists, the latter will be similar events controlled by frequency characteristics of propagation paths.

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