• Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.277-285
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• 2010

For regional earthquakes in the Korean Peninsula, the seismic Lg waves have the largest amplitude. Our researches in South Korea found that more reasonable low ${Q_{Lg}}^{-1}$ was obtained as the inter-station distances increase. The other methods such as coda normalization method and multiple lapse time window method also produced that the low ${Q_{Lg}}^{-1}$ is related to the values of seismically inactive region.

• Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.310-317
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• 2008

Lg amplitude decrease $Q^{-1}$ is very important because the Lg phase is the largest seismic phase in Korea if hazardous earthquakes occurred at neighbor nations such as Japan and China. Since reliable $Q^{-1}$ from two station method can be obtained by long pair distance of stations or events, we used seismic stations both Korea and Japans recording Korean events. The obtained $Q^{-1}$ values, however, were anomalously high; these misguided values, inconsistent with tectonic activity of Korean Peninsula, seems to be related with high $Q^{-1}$ values of Japan region.

• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.152-157
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• 2011

Lg amplitude decrease $Q^{-1}$ becomes very important when harzadous earthquakes occurred in neighbor nations such as Japan and China because the Lg phase is the largest seismic phase in Korea. The values of Lg $Q^{-1}$ are correlated with seismic activities from the RTSM for IRIS data with long pair distance of stations and events. The Japanese paths crossing the East Sea (Sea of Japan) show high $Q^{-1}$ values related with seismicity and oceanic crust. The paths of Shanghai having the moderate seismicity show the second highest values followed by the Japanese region, while the paths between Manchuria and the Korean Peninsula exhibit low values associated with the low seismicity of the regions.