Spectral characteristics of natural and artificial seismic events in the Lop Nor test site, China

Autor: Kamal A. Abou Elenean, Ali A. Gharib, Hesham Hussein, Ibrahim Korrat, Mohamed El Gabry
Rok vydání: 2008
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Zdroj: Acta Geophysica. 56:344-356
ISSN: 1895-7455
1895-6572
Popis: Seismic discriminants based on the spectral seismogram and spectral magnitude techniques have been tested to discriminate between three events; a nuclear explosion which took place in Lop Nor, China with m b 6.1 and two earthquakes from the closest area with m b 5.5 and 5.3, respectively. The spectral seismogram of the three events shows that the frequency content of the nuclear explosion differs from that of the earthquakes where the P wave is richier in high frequency content in the nuclear explosion than the corresponding earthquakes. It is also observed that the energy decays more rapidly for the nuclear explosion than for the earthquakes. Furthermore, the spectral magnitudes reveal significant differences in the spectra between the nuclear explosion and the two earthquakes. The observed differences appear to be quite enough to provide a reliable discriminant. The estimated stress drop from the magnitude spectra indicates a higher stress drop of the nuclear explosion relative to the earthquakes of the same tectonic region.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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