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Epicenter Estimation Using Real-Time Event Packet of Quanterra digitizer  

Lim, In-Seub (Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resouces (KIGAM))
Sheen, Dong-Hoon (Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resouces (KIGAM))
Shin, Jin-Soo (Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resouces (KIGAM))
Jung, Soon-Key (Chungbuk National University)
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Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration / v.12, no.4, 2009 , pp. 316-327 More about this Journal
Abstract
A standard for national seismological observatory was proposed on 1999. Since then, Quanterra digitizer has been installed and is operating on almost all of seismic stations which belong to major seismic monitoring organizations. Quanterra digitizer produce and transmit real-time event packet and data packet. Characteristics of event packet and arrival time of each channel's data packet on data center were investigated. Packet selection criteria using signal to noise ratio (hereafter SNR) and signal period from real-time event packet based on 100 samples per second (hereafter sps) velocity data were developed. Estimation of epicenter using time information of the selected event packet were performed and tested. A series of experiment show that event packets were received approximately 3~4 second earlier than data packets and the number of event packet was only 0.3% compare to data packets. Just about 5% against all of event packets were selected as event packet were related P wave of real earthquake. Using the selected event packets we can estimate an epicenter with misfit less than 10 km within 20 sec for local earthquake over magnitude 2.5.
Keywords
earthquake; epicenter estimation; event packet; Q4120; Q730; phase detector;
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