• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.113-118
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• 1998

1994년 7월 25일 발생한 황해남부 지진(Mb=5.5)의 지진원 요소들을 결정하였다. 지진원 요소들을 결정하기 위하여 이 지진에 대하여 이전의 연구에서 얻어진 지진발생기구를 사용하였다. 지진발생기구에 의하면, 이 지진은 거의 동서방향의 압축응력장에 주향이동성분이 가미되어 발생한 것을 암시한다. 지진원 요소들은 단주기 및 장주기 P파에 대한 원지장 스펙트럼으로부터 계산되었다. 지진모멘트(M0), 코너주파수(f0), 지진원 반경(r) 및 응력강하량($\Delta$$\sigma$)은 각각 M0 = 3.18$\times$1024 dyne-cm, f0=0.3 Hz, r=3.7km, $\Delta$$\sigma$=27bar로 구해졌다. 지진모멘트로부터 산정한 모멘트 규모는 5.6으로 나타났다.

• Electric Engineers Magazine
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• v.186 no.2
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• pp.58-66
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• 1998

우리나라도 지진에 대한 안전지역이라고 할 수 없다. 최근 2~3년 사이에 지진의 빈도가 급격히 늘어나고 있으며 과거지진 기록을 토대로 조사한 바에 의하면 규모 7.0이상의 지진이 발생한 경우도 있다. 최근 50년 동안에도 지리산 지진, 속리산 지진, 평양 앞바다의 황해 지진, 1978년 10월 7일에 발생한 홍성 지진의 경우 규모 5.0이상의 강도가 큰 지진이었고 최근에 들어와 국내 지진 횟수가 크게 늘어나고 또한 야외 같은 지진이 향후 대도시와 주요시설이 밀집된 지역에서 발생될 경우 우리나라와 같이 내진대책이 특별이 없는 경우는 그 피해가 막대할 것이다.

• Electric Engineers Magazine
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• v.185 no.1
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• pp.53-57
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• 1998

우리나라도 지진에 대한 안전지역이라고 할 수 없다. 최근 2~3년 사이에 지진의 빈도가 급격히 늘어나고 있으며 과거 지진기록을 토대로 조사한 바에 의하면 규모 7.0이상의 지진이 발생한 경우도 있다. 최근 50년 동안에도 지리산 지진, 속리산 지진, 평양 앞바다의 황해 지진, 1978년 10월 7일에 발생한 홍성 지진의 경우 규모 5.0이상의 강도가 큰 지진이었고 최근에 들어와 국내 지진 횟수가 크게 늘어나고 또한 이와 같은 지진이 향후 대도시와 주요시설이 밀집이 지역에서 발생될 경우 우리나라와 같이 내진대책이 특별히 없는 경우는 그 피해가 막대할 것이다.

• Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.235-242
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• 2010

Two moderate earthquakes with local magnitude 4.9 and 5.0 at the Yellow Sea area occurred successively around Hong island on March 22, 2003 and Baengnyeong island on March 30, 2003, respectively, close to the Korean Peninsula. Focal mechanisms by the waveform inversion analysis are strike slip faulting with a thrust component for the March 22 event, and normal faulting for the March 30 event. The direction of P-axes of two events were ENE-WSW which were similar to previous studies on that of P-axes in and around the Korean Peninsula. Moment magnitudes determined by the waveform inversion analysis were 4.7 and 4.5, respectively, whereas those determined by spectral analysis were 4.8 and 4.6, respectively. As regards the March 22 event, regional stress by combined tectonic forces from compressions of plates colliding to the Eurasian plate, rather than mere local stress, was indicated. However, it was estimated that the March 30 event took place when the weak zone generated from the existing collision zone was reactivated when subjected to local stress in the tensile direction. This seismological observation indirectly supports the idea that the collision zone may extend to the Korean Peninsula.

• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.52-61
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• 2016

The purpose of the study was to create a probabilistic seismic hazard map using the input data that reflected the seismo-tectonic characteristics of the Korean Peninsula by applying USGS program (Harmsen (2008). The program was partly modified for the purpose of this study. The uncertainty of input parameters given by specialists was reflected in calculating the seismic hazard values by logic tree method. The general pattern of PGA was quite sensitive and similar to the shape of areal source. The probabilistic seismic hazard map showed the contour distribution of peak acceleration (%g) with 10% probability of exceedance in 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 250, and 500 years. The result showed that the peak ground acceleration (PGA) values of the northern peninsula were almost half values of the southern peninsula except Hwanghae province. The general trend of the hazard map extended in the direction of NW-SE from Whanghae province to south-eastern regions of the peninsula. The values in northern part of Kangwon province were relatively lower than other areas in the southern peninsula. The maps produced through this study are considered valuable in regulating the seismic safety of the major facilities in the Korean Peninsula.

• The Journal of Engineering Geology
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.98-112
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• 2000

Discrimination between natural earthquakes and man-made explosions is very essential but critical matter in Seismology. In the CTBT Monitoring business, this is very crucial issue and sometimes could occur the international conflict. In this study, we analyzed seismic and infrasound data from Chulwon Seismo-Acoustic Array and would like to introduce routine data processing procedures at the Korea Institute of Geology, Mining and Materials(KIGAM) to discriminate the earthquakes and artificial explosions. We found analyzing acoustic data together with seismic data is very effective way to identify and discriminate man made explosion from natural earthquake. Recent earthquakes in and around the Korean Peninsula are concentrated in a narrow zone with N60-70$^{\circ}$W in southern Korea, and Pyungan and Hwanghae Province in northern Korea. The mechanism of 14 larger earthquakes in and around the Korean Peninsula since 1936 show predominant strike-slip faulting together with minor thrust component. This indicates horizontal compression is dominant in and around the Korean Peninsula.

• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.33 no.7
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• pp.637-644
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• 2012

The Seoul metropolitan area is densely populated with 40 percent of Korean people and quite weak to the seismic hazard. According to the analysis of historical documents, the largest earthquake occurred in this area is MMI VIII-IX acompanying with a large shaking, collapse of stone walls, collapse of houses, and many casualties. Two times of damaging earthquakes occurred in the first century (A.D. 27, 89), and there was a long quiet period of about 1430 years. Another big earthquakes re-occurred three times in the 16-17 century (1518, 1613, 1692) and then a quiet period has continued to the present time. Just after Seoul earthquake in 1518, aftershocks occurred almost 19 days consecutively and many triggered earthquakes occurred not only in Seoul metropolitan area but also in Hwanghae province, northern Korea. It indicates that the largest potential earthquake in and around Seoul is MMI VIII-IX with a long occurrence period of about 1400-1500 years.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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• v.29 no.7
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• pp.724-739
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• 2023

Located in the sea area between South Korea, North Korea, and China, the Yellow Sea plays an important role from a geopolitical perspective, and recently, as the use of marine space in the Yellow Sea is expanding, its social and economic values have been increasing further. In addition, owing to rapid climate changes, the need for joint response and cooperation between Korea and China is increasing in various fields, including changes in the marine environment and marine ecosystem and generation and movement of air pollutants. Accordingly, in this study, core topics were derived from research papers with the Yellow Sea as a keyword, and research trends to date were explored through author network analysis. As a specific research method, research papers related to the Yellow Sea published between 1984 and 2021 were extracted from the Web of Science database and were classified into four periods to derive core topics using topic modeling, a type of text mining. Furthermore, the influences of major research communities, researchers, and research institutes in the appropriate fields were identified through analyzing the author network, and their implications were presented. The analysis results indicated that the core topics of research papers on the Yellow Sea had changed over time, and differences existed in the influence (centrality) of key researchers. Finally, based on the results of this study, this study aims to identify research trends related to the Yellow Sea, major researchers, and research institutes and contribute to research cooperation between Korea and China regarding the Yellow Sea in the future.

• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.159-167
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• 2000

We tested the randomness and estimated the degree of concentration for the earthquake occurrence in the Korean Peninsula by using the statistical methods for spatial data. For the randomness test, we applied both of the test statistics based method and the empirical distribution based method to the both of historical and instrumental seismicity data. It was found that the earthquake occurrences for historical and instrumental seismicity data are not random and clustered rather than scattered. A nonparametric density estimation method was used to estimate the concentration degree in the Peninsula. The earthquake occurrences show relatively high concentration on Seoul, Choongnam, Chonbook and Kyungbook areas for the historical seismicity data. Also,'L" shaped concentrations connecting Whanghaedo -the coast of Choongnam -the inland of Kyungbook area are revealed for the instrumental seismicity data.

• The Journal of Engineering Geology
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.59-74
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• 1995

It is well known that the hypocentral parameters inside the seismic array are well determined using HYPO71PC Programs. These programs, however, do not woik well for the non-evenly distribution of the seismic stations and/or the seismic events outside the seismic array. Furthermore it is very difficult to determine the exact locations of small events in North Korea since there is no seismological data exchange between South and North Koreas. We used the polarization method of the single-station with 3-component in addition to HYPO71PC(IASPEI's Program) in order to determine the source parameters of shallow-focus earthquakes outside the seismic array. First of all, we tested the interior events of the Uisung earthquake, April 14, 1991 and the Mt. Keyryong earthquakes, Feorirary 12, 1994, and two exterior events of W. Pyoungyang earthquake, Noventer 12, 1992, and Yellow Sea earthquake, July 26, 1994 to investigate the convergence and divergence to calculate the source parameters. We have found that the source determination outside the seismic array never converges to the exact location whereas the any events inside the array quickly converge to the exact location. The seismic events outside the array such as two events Vladivostok and East Sea, and the Yellow Sea event are more accurately determined using the polarization method. Estimating the source azimuth is carried out by estimating the polarization direction of the interesting phases and the range estimate is made frum the relative timing of different phases. The polarization method is verified by fmding that the estimates of azimuths and incidence angles by the polarization method are identical with those of the synthetic seismograms of the modellings using the generator program.