• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제43권5호
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• pp.437-446
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• 2011

Siting criteria for nuclear power plants require that faults be characterized as to their potential for generating earthquakes, or that the absence of the potential for these occurrences be demonstrated. Because the definition of active faults in Korea has been applied by the deterministic method, which depends on the numerical age of fault movement, the possibility of inherent uncertainties exists in determining the maximum earthquake from the fault sources for seismic design. In an attempt to overcome these problems this study suggests new criteria and a probabilistic quantitative diagnostic procedure that could estimate whether a fault is capable of generating earthquakes in the near future.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.411-429
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• 2017

A Spectral Element Method for 3D seismic wave propagation simulation is derived based on the three-dimensional fluctuating elastic dynamic equation. Considering the 3D real terrain and the attenuation characteristics of the medium, the topographic effect of Wenchuan earthquake is simulated by using the Spectral Element Method (SEM) algorithm and the ASTER DEM model. Results show that the high PGA (peak ground acceleration) region was distributed along the peak and the slope side away from the epicenter in the epicenter area. The overall distribution direction of high PGA and high PGV (peak ground velocity) region is parallel to the direction of the seismogenic fault. In the epicenter of the earthquake, the ground motion is to some extent amplified under the influence of the terrain. The amplification effect of the terrain on PGA is complicated. It does not exactly lead to amplification of PGA at the ridge and the summit or attenuation of PGA in the valley.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.591-598
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• 2019

The most recent shaking experiences have demonstrated that the predictions of the seismic models are not always in agreement with the registered responses, especially in the face of extreme earthquakes. Records collected from 1960 to 2011 at a rock-like site are used to develop a neural network that permits to estimate peak ground accelerations via the magnitude, the focal depth, the site-source distance and a seismogenic zone. The neural model is applied to the 8th and 19th September 2017 events that hit Mexican territory and the obtained results show that the network is flexible enough to work appropriately to various conditions of intensity and sites-sources with remarkably predictive capacity. The neural-attenuation curves are compared with those obtained from Ground Motion Prediction Equations and their performance is assessed for events, in addition to the devastating Mexican events, from Japan, Taiwan, Chile and USA.

• 한국지진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지진공학회 2006년도 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.33-40
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• 2006

Since early 1990's, several Quaternary faults have been found in the southeastern part of the Korean peninsula with reference to fault activity. Because some of these faults could be considered a capable fault, it is a very delicate matter, which need to be deal with carefully in assessing the seismic hazard. In determining whether or not a faults are capable, because of the low rate of seismicity and insufficient relationship between instrumental macro-seismicity and fault, there has been considerable debate among geologists and geophysicists in Korea. In this study, we discuss the criteria and probabilistic approaches that are used to assess whether or not a fault is seismogenic. And, we preliminarily also suggest the probability of fault activity from the spatial association between faults and earthquake epicenters, fault slip and tectonic stress, and geological evidence for multiple episodes of reactivation.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.202-213
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• 2007

2007년 1월 20일 평창군 진부면 오대산 일대에서 발생한 오대산 지진$(M_L=4.8)$은 천발지진(진원깊이 약 10 km)으로서 감진구역이 남한 남서부 일부를 제외한 전역에 이르렀다. 본진에 의한 최대 진도는 VI으로 VI에 해당하는 지역은 평창군 진부면, 도암면, 강릉, 주문진, 평창을 포함하는 지역으로서 강한 지진동과 함께 건물 실내외부 벽의 균열발생, 지붕의 기와나 스레트의 낙하 및 이동, 실내외 벽 타일의 떨어짐, 선반위 물체의 떨어짐, 도로의 낙석 등이 발생하였다. P파 초동극성과 SH/P 진폭비 자료를 이용한 단층면해는 본진의 경우 북북동-남남서 주향의 주향이동 단층운동을 나타내며, 2회의 여진은 남북 내지 북북동-남남서 주향의 역단층 운동이 우세함을 보인다. 전진, 본진 및 여진의 분포, 피해 지역 분포, 단층면해 등을 종합적으로 고려할 때 진앙지 부근에 우세하게 발달하고 있는 북북동-남남서 주향의 월정사단층이 기진 단층의 역할을 했을 것으로 추정된다. 여진 분포로 짐작컨대 subsurface에서의 이 단층의 파쇄 길이는 약 2 km로 판단되며, 추후 이 단층에 대한 고지진학적 조사가 필요하다.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.616-622
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• 2018

규모가 큰 지진에 의해 발생한 에너지는 전리층까지 도달하여 교란을 발생시킨다. GNSS (global navigation satellite system) 위성의 신호의 전리층 지연을 분석하면 해당 교란을 검출할 수 있다. 지진에 의한 교란 검출에는 주로 band-pass filter가 사용되는데, 교란의 주파수에 맞는 주파수 대역 설정이 중요하다. 따라서 본 논문에선 GNSS 신호를 통해 지진에 의한 전리층 교란의 주파수를 분석하였다. 전리층 교란의 주파수 분석은 반송파의 geometry free combination으로 산출한 전리층 지연을 1 mHz high-pass filter로 처리한 후, fast Fourier transform을 통해 수행했다. 교란의 주파수 분석결과 초기 교란의 주파수는 4.5 mHz~11 mHz의 범위를 가지며, 5.7 mHz가 대표 주파수이다. 후속 교란의 경우 6 mHz~10 mHz의 주파수 대역을 가지며, 7.3 mHz가 대표 주파수로 관찰되었다.

• 지구물리와물리탐사
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.125-131
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• 2018

2017년 11월 15일 포항지진(규모 5.4)은 깊이효과로 경주지진(규모 5.8) 보다 피해가 더 컸으나, 정확한 깊이가 확증되지 않고 있다. 진원 깊이를 진원재결정을 통하여 역산한 결과, 대부분의 모델의 진원 깊이가 얕은 표층으로 도출된 반면, 지각구조가 가장 근접한 모델은 6.0 ~ 11.5 km 구간의 깊이로 산출되었다. 지온분석에서는 7.5 km 근방에서 $300^{\circ}C$의 온도가 관찰되어 지진유발층의 사례에 입각한 포항지진의 진원은 근접한 모델로 얻어진 7 km 근방인 것으로 추정되어진다.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.251-256
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• 2017

The electric coupling between the lithosphere and the ionosphere is examined. The electric field is considered as a timevarying irregular vertical Coulomb field presumably produced on the Earth's surface before an earthquake within its epicentral zone by some micro-processes in the lithosphere. It is shown that the Fourier component of this electric field with a frequency of 500 Hz and a horizontal scale-size of 100 km produces in the nighttime ionosphere of high and middle latitudes a transverse electric field with a magnitude of ~20 mV/m if the peak value of the amplitude of this Fourier component is just 30 V/m. The time-varying vertical Coulomb field with a frequency of 500 Hz penetrates from the ground into the ionosphere by a factor of ${\sim}7{\times}10^5$ more efficient than a time independent vertical electrostatic field of the same scale size. The transverse electric field with amplitude of 20 mV/m will cause perturbations in the nighttime F region electron density through heating the F region plasma resulting in a reduction of the downward plasma flux from the protonosphere and an excitation of acoustic gravity waves.

• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제23권7호
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• pp.137-144
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• 2019

근단층 지역에 위치한 교량은 근단층지반운동에 대한 내진안전성을 확보하는 것이 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 연약지반이 두껍고 다양한 지층으로 구성된 지역에 건설되는 단일형 현장타설말뚝 교량의 지진거동특성과 내진안전성을 분석하였다. 근단층지반운동을 생성하고 지반해석을 수행하여 각 지층에서의 지반가속도이력을 산정하였다. 이 가속도이력을 이용하여 각 지층의 지반을 등가스프링으로 모델화하고, 각 지층에서의 가속도시간이력을 입력지반운동으로 하는 다지점 가진 지진해석을 수행하였다. 근단층지반운동의 특성으로 인하여 교량은 탄성영역 내에서 거동하였지만 최대모멘트의 발생 위치 등이 설계지반운동을 고려할 때와는 상이한 특성을 보였다.

• Geosciences Journal
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.871-880
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• 2018

During and shortly after the 2017 Pohang Earthquake ($M_w$ 5.4), sand blows were observed around the epicenter for the first time since the beginning of instrumental seismic recording in South Korea. We carried out field surveys plus satellite and drone imagery analyses, resulting in observation of approximately 600 sand blows on Quaternary sediment cover in this area. Most were observed within 3 km of the epicenter, with the farthest being 15 km away. In order to investigate the ground's susceptibility to liquefaction, we conducted a trench study of a 30 m-long sand blow in a rice field 1 km from the earthquake epicenter. The physical characteristics of the liquified sediments (grain size, impermeable barriers, saturation, and low overburden pressure) closely matched the optimum ground conditions for liquefaction. Additionally, we found a series of soft sediment deformation structures (SSDSs) within the trench walls, such as load structures and water-escaped structures. The latter were vertically connected to sand blows on the surface, reflecting seismogenic liquefaction involving subsurface deformation during sand blow formation. This genetic linkage suggests that SSDS research would be useful for identifying prehistoric damage-inducing earthquakes ($M_w$ > 5.0) in South Korea because SSDSs have a lower formation threshold and higher preservational potential than geomorphic markers formed by surface ruptures. Thus, future combined studies of Quaternary surface faults and SSDSs are required to provide reliable paleoseismological information in Korea.