a new and significant source of information on earthquake studies has been provided by space geodesy. the data which are gathered by various techniques of space geodesy, can quantify potential of seismic activity in the region of interest. to achieve this goal, the main advantage of extra-terrestrial geodetic data in comparison with the conventional data from geology and seismology is the abili...

[1] We quantify gravity changes after great earthquakes present within the 10 year long time series of monthly Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) gravity fields. Using spherical harmonic normal-mode formulation, the respective source parameters of moment tensor and double-couple were estimated. For the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake, the gravity data indicate a composite moment of...

A new and significant source of information on earthquake studies has been provided by space geodesy. The data which are gathered by various techniques of space geodesy, can quantify potential of seismic activity in the region of interest. To achieve this goal, the main advantage of extra-terrestrial geodetic data in comparison with the conventional data from geology and seismology is the abili...

-The fault parameters of the Guam earthquake of August 8, 1993 are estimated from seismological analyses, and the possibility of identifying the actual fault plane from tsunami waveforms is tested. The Centroid Moment Tensor solution of long-period surface waves shows one nodal plane shallowly dipping to the north and the other nodal plane steeply dipping to the south. The seismic moment is 3.5...

Scaling of dynamic rupture processes from small to large earthquakes is critical to seismic hazard assessment. Large subduction earthquakes are typically remote, and we mostly rely on teleseismic body waves to extract information on their slip rate functions. We estimate the P wave source spectra of 942 thrust earthquakes of magnitude Mw 5.5 and above by carefully removing wave propagation effe...

Seismic hazard analyses are associated with large uncertainties when historical data are insufficient to define secular rates of seismicity. Such uncertainties may be decreased with geological data in areas where seismicity is shallow and produced by Quaternary faulting. To illustrate, we examine intraplate Japan. Large intraplate earthquakes in Japan characteristically produce surface ruptures...

We study a database of more than 119,000 measurements of the mantle magnitude Mm introduced by Okal and Talandier (1989), obtained since 1999 as part of the operational procedures at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center. The performance of this method is significantly affected by the seismic instrumentation at the recording station, with the very-broadband STS-1 and KS54000 systems offering the l...

The analysis of the Nahanni earthquakes of October 5, 1985 (Ms 6.6), and December 23, 1985 (Ms 6.9), will have important implications for the assessment of seismic hazards in intraplate environments. To maximize the information available to seismic engineers, broadband data recorded teleseismically are analyzed jointly with strong-motion data recorded in the near field. The timedomain analysis ...

on 26 december 2003 at 05:26lt (01:26gmt), a catastrophic earthquake mw 6.6, seismic moment (6 – 9 ×10 nm) struck the city of bam in the kerman province of southeast iran. the intense shaking in the city caused the complete collapse of nearly every building in the central parts of the city including many of the newer buildings, killing about 40000 people officially. the city lies to the east of...