7. General Applications
7.7. Other Applications
In addition to those discussed above, there are several other applica- tions of microearthquake networks. For example, microearthquake net- works have been used to monitor seismicity around volcanoes, nuclear waste disposal sites, and nuclear power plants. In fact, several of the earliest microearthquake networks were set up to study volcanoes (e.g., Eaton, 1962). Many of the permanent microearthquake networks listed in Table I1 are located in volcanic regions (e.g., Hawaii, Iceland, and Ore- gon), and their primary function is to monitor seismicity as an aid for forecasting volcanic eruptions. Crosson et NI. (1980) described such an application for Mt. St. Helens, which erupted cataclysmically on May 18, 1980. Microearthquake networks often are used to map active faults in the vicinity of nuclear waste disposal sites and nuclear power plants. Results from such studies usually are too specific in nature and commonly are not published in scientific journals.
TABLE 11. Examples of Permanent Microearthquake Networks
Operating or Areal Number Station Annual number
Microearthquake coordinating start Geographic coverage of spacing of located
Country network institution date location (km*) stations (km) earthquakes
China Beijing region Taiwan Abuyama Japan
Akita
Dodaira
Hirosaki
Hokkaido
Hokuriku
Hokushin
State Seism. Bureau, Acad. Sinica, Taipei.
Abuyama Seism. Obs..
Beijing, China Taiwan Kyoto Univ., Takas tsu ki -s hi Osaka-fu. Japan Akita Geophys. Obs..
Tohoku Univ..
Sendai. Japan Dodaira Microearthq.
Obs., Earthq. Res.
Inst., Tokyo Univ..
Tokyo, Japan Hirosaki Earthq. Obs.,
Hmsaki Univ..
Hirosaki, Japan Res. Cent. Earthq.
Red., Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo, Japan Hokuriku Microearthq.
Obs.. DPRI. Kyoto Univ.. Kyoto. Japan Hokushin Obs.. Earthq.
Res. Inst.. Tokyo Univ.. Tokyo. Japan
1%
1972 1%7
1966
1%
1972
1976
1%8
1%7 Asia
Northern Hopei Taiwan
Osaka-fu. Honshu
Akita. Honshu
Kanto district. Honshu
Aomori-ken. Honshu
Southern Hokkaido
Fukui-ken. Honshu
Nagoya-ken, Honshu
120.000 21
30.000 22
10,Ooo 13
10,Ooo 6
1o.Ooo 5
lo00 7
22,000 9
5Ooo 7
1o.Ooo 7
76
-
50037 1 So0
28
41
45
TABLE I1 (Continued)
Operating or Areal Number Station Annual number
Microearthquake coordinating start Geographic coverage of spacing of located
Country network institution date location (km? stations (km) earthquakes
Japan Kamitakara
Kanto-Tokai
Kitakami
Kochi
Nagoya
Shiraki
Takayama
Tohoku
Tokushima
Tottori
Kamitakara Geophys.
Obs., DPRI. Kyoto Univ., Kyoto, Japan Nat. Res. Cent. Disast.
Prevent., Sakura- mum, Niihari-gun, Ibaraki-ken. Japan Kitakami Seism. Obs..
Tohoku Univ., Sendai, Japan Kochi Earthq. Obs..
Kochi Univ., Kochi.
Japan Res. Cent. Earthq.
Pred., Nagoya Univ., Nagoya. Japan Shiraki Microearthq.
Obs., Earthq. Res.
Inst., Tokyo Univ., Tokyo, Japan Takayama Seism. Obs.,
Nagoya Univ., Nagoya, Japan Obs. Cent. Earthq.
Pred.. Tohoku Univ., Sendai. Japan Tokushima Seism. Obs.,
Kyoto Univ.. Kyoto, Japan
Obs.. DPRI. Kyoto Univ., Kyoto, Japan Tottori Microearthq.
1966
1973
1971 1967 1976 1968
1970 1975 1972 1964
Gifu-ken. Honshu
Ibaraki-ken. Honshu
Iwate-ken, Honshu
Kochi-ken. Shikoku
Central Honshu
Hiroshima-ken, H ons hu
Gifu-ken, Honshu
Tohoku district, Honshu Tokushima-ken,
Shikoku Totton-ken. Honshu
3 18
10 63
14 27
5 24
13 39
3 26
4 22
16 50
4 22
8 32
Pakistan
USSR
Australia
New Zealand
France
Dushanbe
Garm
Wakayama Wakayama Microearthq.
Obs., Earthq. Res.
Inst., Tokyo Univ., Tokyo, Japan Govt. of Pakistan, and
Lamont-Doherty Geol. Obs., Palisades,
New York
Tadzhik Inst. of Seism.
Const. and Seismol- ogy, Dushanbe, USSR Inst. Phys. of the
Earth, Moscow.
USSR Tar beldC has hma
Adelaide Dept of Physics. Univ.
of Adelaide. Adelaide.
Australia School of Earth Sci.,
Australian Natl.
Univ.. Canberra, Australia Tasmania Geology Dept., Univ
Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
Pukaki Seism. Obs., DSIR,
Wellington, New New South Wales
Zealand Wellington Seism. Obs., DSIR,
Wellington. New Zealand
R hi negraben Inst. Phys. Globe, of
rno.ooo
1%5 Wakayama-ken.
Hons hu
1973 Nortkrn Pakistan 5O.OOO
1955 Tadzhik SSR
1950 Tadzhik SSR
4usfrakiri rind N e w Zecikurrd 1%2 South Australia
New South Wales
12.000
1o.Ooo
15o.OOO
I2 41
32 40 2000
18 29
-
200016 L5 3500
9 130
9
60
1972 Tasmania 2 o . m 8 50 100
1975 Central South Island 3000 10 17 - 300
1975 Wellington region 5000 11 21 loo0
Europe
Rhinegraben Moo 5 24 150
Univ. of Strasbourg.
Strasbourg. France
TABLE 11 (Continued)
Operating or AX& Number Station Annual number
Microearthquake coordinating Start Geographic coverage of spdcing of located
Country network institution date location ( km') stations (km) earthquakes
Germany
Iceland
Italy Romania Sweden
-
4P Switzerland U.K.
Canada
Costa Rica Guatemala
R hi negraben
Hengill- Hell is heidi
AKOM Vrancea Southern Sweden
Switzerland Lownet
Eastan Canada
Western Canada
Costa Rica Guatemala
Geophys. Inst., Univ. of 1966 Rhinegraben Karlsruhe. Karlsruhe.
Germany Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
Inst. Geof.. Litosfera, Milano, Italy Inst. Hydroelec.
Buchmst, Romania Hagfon Obs.. FOA
Fack. S-10450 Stockholm, Sweden Swiss Seism. Serv.
Zurich. Switzerland Inst. Geol. Sci.
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK Sci. Inst.. Univ. of
Earth Physics Br..
Dept. Energy, Mines and Resources, Ottawa, Canada Earth Physics Br.,
Dept. Energy, Mines and Resources, Ottawa. Canada Univ. Costa Rica. San
Jose, Costa Rica Inst. Nacional de
Sismologia.
Guatemala City, Guatemala
1974 SW Iceland
1973 Central Italy. East coast
1977 Carpathians 1980 Southern Sweden
1974 Swiss Alps and 1%9 Lowland VaUey, Alpine Forelands
Scotland
North crnd Cenrrul Amerriru 1974 Southern Quebec
1975 Southwestern British Columbia
1976 Costa Rica 1975 Guatemala
10,000 8 35
5ooo 8 25
400 5 9
40.000 7 76
m.000 20 100
15,000 14 33
10,000 7 38
20.m
10.000
4 70
4 50
10.000 10 32
40 ,000 30 37
I 50
100
300
-2Ooo
Mexico Cerro F’rieto
Nicaragua Nicaragua
us. Adak
Alaska
Alaska Peninsula ( 2 subnets) Albuquerque Basin
Central California
Eastern Washington Hawaii
INEL Kansas
Los Angeles Basin
Nevada
Centro Investig.
Cientif. Educ. Super.
Ensenada, Ensenada, B.C.. Mexico Inst. de lnvestigaciones
Sismicas, Managua, Nicaragua
CIRES, Univ. Colorado.
Boulder. Colorado Geophys. Inst.. Univ.
Alaska. Fairbanks, Alaska
Lamont-Dokrty Geol.
Obs.. Columbia Univ..
Palisades, New York OE. Earthq. Studies,
U.S. Geol. Survey.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
M. Earthq. Studies, U S . Geol. Survey, Menlo Park, California Geophys. Program.
Univ. Washington Seattle. Wash.
Hawaii Volcan. Obs., U S . Geol. Survey, Hawaii Is., Hawaii Idaho Natl. Eng. Lab.,
Idaho Falls, Idaho Kansas G e d . Survey.
Lawrence. Kansas Dept. of Geol. Sci..
Univ. Southern Calif., Los Angeles, California Seismol. Lab., UNv.
of Nevada, Reno.
Nevada
I977
197.5
1974 1977
1973
I976
1%7
1969
1%1
1973 1977 197 I
1970
Cerro Prieto.
Northern Baja
Nicaragua
Adak. Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska
Peninsula. Kodiak Island, Seward Peninsula Shumagin Islands
and Unalaska Island Central New Mexico
Central California
Eastern Washington
Hawaii Island
Southeast Idaho Eastern Kansas Los Angeles Basin,
Southern Calif.
Western Nevada and Eastern California
400
40.OOO
7 -500 800.000
66.OOO
m.ow
50,OOO
10,OOO
10,ow
m
50,OOO 4Ooo
100.OOO
6
16
14 50
2o 13
250 32
40
6 I2 25
50
8 -200
.w -m
23 900
100 4Ooo
57 loo0
39 200
14 4Ooo
I8
16 4Ooo
32
65 12
13 200
45 loo0
TABLE I1 (Continued)
Operating or Areal Number Station Annual number
Microearthquake coordinating Start Geographic coverage of spacing of l a a t e d
Country network institution date location fkm’) stations fkm) earthquakes
U.S. New Madrid
Northeastern United States I7 member net works ) Caribbean Northern
Oklahoma
Oregon
Puerto Rico
Southeastern United States
( I2 member networks Southern Alaska
Southern California
Southern Great Basin
Dept. of Earth and Atm.
Sci., St. Louis Univ..
St. Louis. Missouri Weston Obs.. Boston
College. Boston, Mass.
Lamont-Doherty Geol.
Obs.. Columbia Univ..
Palisades, New York Oklahoma Geophys.
Obs.. Univ. of Oklahoma, Noman, Oklahoma
off. Earthq. Studies.
U.S. G e d . Survey, Menlo Park. California off. Earthq. Studies,
U.S. Geol. Survey.
Denver, Colorado Virginia Polytechnic Inst., Blacksburg.
Virginia
Off. Earthq. Studies.
U S . Geol. Survey, Menlo Park. California Seismol. Lab., Cal. Inst.
Tech. Pasadena, California Off. Earthq..Studies.
U S . Ged. Survey.
Denver. Colorado
1974 1975
1975 1977
1980
1975 1977
1972 1973 1978
Southeast Missouri
Northeastern United States
Netherland Antilles.
Puerto Rico, Virgin Is.. West lndies Oklabma
Cascade Range, Oregon Puerto Rico
Southeastern United States
Southem Alaska
Southern California
Southern Nevada, NW Arizona.
SE California
m,m
2oo.ooo
3o.ooo
I50,OOO
37,500 10,000 250.000
230.000 100,000 100.000
17
110
15 10
32 I5 83
50 I50
50
34 200
43 100
45
122 60
34 100
26 300
._
55 100
60 5000
26 6Ooo
45 500
Wasatch Front Dept. Geol. and Geophys.. Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
Western Geophys. Program.
Washington Univ. Washington.
Yellowstone Off. Seattle, Wash. Earthq. Studies.
U.S. Geol. Survey, Menlo Park, California West Indies Eastern Caribbean Seismic Res. Unit. Univ.
West Indies. Trinidad
1974 Northern Utah 30.000 43 26 1000
1969 Puget Sound Region, 30,000 17 42
Western Washington
1972 Yellowstone Natl. 8000 20 20
Park and vicinity.
Idaho- Wyoming- Montana Windward Islands
1978 Various Leeward and 70.000 I I 80
400 200
TABLE 111. Examples of Reconnaissance Microearthquake Surveys on Land
Number of
Number of Time microearthquakes
Provincei
Country State Locality Seismographs Instr. Sites Year Duration Observed Located Reference
Botswana TanZalliW' Kenya Ethiopia Kenya
Uganda
Afghanistan Iran Iraq Israel
Okavango Delta E. African Rift N W Ethiopian Rift Gregory Rift Kenya Rift Ruwenzori and other Sempaya, districts
Kitagata, and Lake Kitagata
Syowa station McMurdo Sound
Hindu Kush Teheran region Iraq
Dead Sea-Jordan Valley Rift
Africa
Smoked paper portable S - 1974 -3 months -03day Modified ocean- 5 14 1966- 5- 10 daysisite Up to 30iday
bottom type 1969
Smoked paper portable - 27 1%9 6weeks Smoked paper portable 3 28 1%7 -700hr Smoked paper portable - 70 1%9- -2500hr Smoked paper portable 4 28 1973 -3months Smoked paper portable 1 - 1973 4days
1970
- - 1973 24 hr
- - 1973 -
Anrarrtica
Standard station - - 1%7- -
Temporary stations 3 3 1974- 1970 - 1 month 1976
Asiu
Smoked paper portable 12 12 1977 -5weeks Smoked paper and 3 I 1 1974 - 1 month 3-component portable 1 set 42 1974- 160 hr
and 1 permanent magnetic tape
1975
5 -500 0-3Wday 5-Wday 0 12
-
-
100-25
-
-300 23 Smoked paper portable 3 20 1972- 7-40 daysisite -
1973
-50 S c b l z e r a / . (1976)
( 1972)
( 1970) 100 Rykounov ef a / .
Mdnar er a / . Tobin er a / . (1%9)
Aggamal (1971) 19 Mdnarand -200 M a a ~ h a (1975)
Maasha ( 1976) 6
Kaminuma Kaminuma
1971) 1976)
1200 Chatelain et a / . (1980) 37 Hedayati ef a / .
(1976, 1978) Alsinawi and
Banno (1976) Wu ef a/. (1973)
Israelilordan
Japan Honshu
Honshu Honshu Honshu Honshu Honshu Honshu Honshu
Honshu Honshu Honshu Honshu Honshu Kyushu Honshu Honshu Honshu Honshu
Dead Sea region Gobo. Wakayama Ref Wakayama Ref.
MI. Tsukuba, Kanto Matsushiro Neo Valley Kii Peninsula MI. Tsukuba Kanto and Chubu
Ref.
region
Hachiman. Gifu Pref.
Neo Valley fault Neo Valley fault Wakayama W. Kii Peninsula N. Shimabara
Peninsula MI. Minakami.
Matsushiro NE Honshu Tsukechi and
Sakashita S. Neo Valley fault
Ink-pen portable 3 Electronic type 2 Accelerograph and 8 Ultrasensitive 3 Ultrasensitive 4 Smoked paper portable 4 Accelerograph and 10 Radio telerecording 6
electronic type
electronic type
Magnetic tape 2 recording
Magnetic tape 4 Temporary and recording 13
permanent type
Data from cooperative - observations
7 array type and 3 33 individual
10 temporary and 7 17 permanent
I tripartite array 3 1 tripartite array 3 1 tripartite array and 10
7 portable
Paper recording 1 Smoked paper and I I I
magnetic tape recording
3 1976 5 months 3 1952 46 hr
1956 1 1955 48 hr 1 1956 13 days
6 19.55- -
10 1957- -
6 1958 -
2 ]%I- 212days
25 1952- -6 months
I%2 1%2
1962 1%2 42days 1962 42days 4 1%3 720hr 13 1%3 -1month
- 1%3- -
1964
33 1%5 IS days
17 1%5 15 days 3 1966 2 weeks 3 1966 14 hr 20 1%7 20 days
I 1968 -14 days I 1968 76days
11 1968 -
- 82 - 2000
- m / d a y 139 121
- - 519 215 29 I 195 1489
- 2600
470 -
> 1500
- loo0 48 348 -400
- 30 - 100
97
- 300 55
Hundreds
71 Hundreds
-100
~ 360
19 2.55 -50
- 50
Ben-Mcnahcm er a / . (1977) Miyamura (195%) Miyamura (1959b.
Asada (1957) Asada er u / . (1958) Muramatu er o / . Miyamura er a / . Miyamura and
1960)
(1963) ( 1%6) Tsujiura (1959) Miyamura er ol.
( 1%2) Miyamura er al.
Miki er a / . (1%5) Watanabe and
Nakamura (1967) Hori and
Matumoto ( 1%7) Watanabe and
Kuroiso (1%7) Kubotera and
Kikuchi (1967) Watanabe er a / .
( 1%7) Hamaguchi er a / .
(1973) Watanabe and
lida ( 1970) Ooida er a / . (1971)
( 1964)
TABLE 111 (Continued)
Number of
Number of Time microearthquakes
Province/
Country State Locality Seismographs Instr. Sites Year Duration Observed Located Reference
- 120 Ooida and Yamada
Japan Honshu Mikawa district Smokedpaperand 8 8 1%9 75 days -600
Honshu Hiroshima-Shimane 2 tripartite, 1 single, 11 13 1%9 3 weeks - 500
Honshu Miura-Boso region Magnetic tape 2 2 1970 10days - 120
Honshu W. Sizuoka Ref. 4 temporary type 4
magnetic tape (1972)
border area and 4 permanent (1970)
recording
-
160 Kayam er ul.58 Ishibashi and Tsumura ( 197 1 )
recording - 100 Yamada and Ooida
( 1972)
4 1970 2 months -
Honshu N. Gifu Ref. 7 temporary type and 9 9 1971 1 month
Honshu Atera fault Magnetic tape 3
Honshu Ashio, Tochigi Ref. Tripartite anay 3 3 1972- -
2 permanent
recording I 1971 2.5 months
1973 .~
3 1974 13 days
1 1%2 -
26 1974 3 months Hokkaido Noboribetsu hot spring, Tripartite array 3
Quetta Iburi Province Magnetic tape 1 recording
paper portables and 7 permanent portables and 6 permanent
Hsintien-Ilan area Up to 19 smoked 26
17 1977 -3 months Kaohsiung-Pingtung I1 Smoked paper 17
Turkey Marmara Sea region Radio telemetered type 7 7 1971 2 months Pakistan
Taiwan
2800
-
-5- IOiday 22 Numerous
-
Ausfruliu und New. Zeulund
New Zealand South Island Marlborough region Smoked paper portable 7 56 1972 3 months
- 100
-
100- 150
2
-260
> 525 65
> 230
Y a m & er ul (1972) lkami cf ul.
( 1972) Ogino (1974) Hirota (1977) DcNoyer (1%) Tsai ef ul. (1975)
Lin er nl. ( 1979)
Crampin and Ucer
( 1975)
Arabasz and Robinson ( 1976)
North Island Central North Island South Island Alpine fault m e and
Fiordland region South Island NW Nelson region South Island Alpine fault zone near South Island Clarence Fault Haast
Smoked paper portable 4 Smoked paper portable 10 Smoked paper portable 7 Smoked paper portable 8 Smoked paper portable 6
8 1971- -
72 1972 10 weeks
9 1973 -
8 1973 32days 6 1975 13 days
1972 44 29
-200 33 60
- 70
Evison ef u l . ( 1976) Scholz el a / .
( 1973a) Robinson and
Arabasz (1975) Caldwell and
Frohlich (1975) Kieckhefer ( 1977) 2- l2iday
I22
- 2iday Europe
Finland Kuusamo region Telemetered 3 3 1972 3 weeks 12 regional
events Koschyk and
Steinwachs (1977) FranceiItaly
Iceland
Western Alps Mid-Atlantic Ridge Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Smoked paper portable I1 Smoked paper portable 3 16 2 tripartite anays and 5 and 2
smoked paper arrays portable
Smoked paper portable 3 Smoked paper. 13 broadband and radio 23 telemetered
Smoked paper, 23 broadband and radio telemetered recording recording recording SMTR instruments
Magnetic tape 7
Magnetic tape 6
Magnetic tape 5
SKM-3, SKD. -
Smoked paper portable 5
- 1977 1 mmth - 1978 Imonth) 78 1%7 -2000hr 154 1968 38 hrisite
Frechet and Pavoni (1979) Ward el ol. ( 1%9) Ward and
Bjornsson (1971) Conant (1972) Klein el crl. (1973) 24 1970 1204 hr
13 1971 -2 weeks 23 1972 -7 weeks 23 1972 -6 weeks
-600 20lday 12-Wday 17,000 Geothermal areas
Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
Reykjanes Peninsula Mid-Atlantic Ridge,
Reykjanes Peninsula Mid-Atlantic Ridge,
Tjednes Peninsula Stromboli EtM Anapa region,
Caucasus Swiss Alps
> I50
> 150
25 14 Klein P I a / . f1977)
7 1972- 2.5 months 15 1973 - I week 14 1973 76 hr
1973
1 IW- 2 years - 1975- 7 weeks 1970
1976
-900 1329 Many
-w
83
208 Zverev P I a / . Del Pezzo ef o l . Lo Bascio ef crl.
Aronovich ef crl.
Pavoni (1977)
( 1978)
( 1975)
( 1976)
( 1972) USSR 81
Switzerland
F’rovincei Country State
Canada Quebec Quebec
El Salvador El Salvador,
Guatemala, Nicaragua
N
Mexico Baja Calif.
N. Baja Calif.
U.S. Alaska
Alaska Alaska
Alaska U.S./Canada Alaska and
British Columbia U . S . California
Locality
St. Lawrence Valley St. Lawrence Valley
Ahuachapan geothermal area Central American
volcanoes San Miguel fault zone Agua Blanca and San
Miguel faults Katmai Natl.
Monument Mali fault zone, MI.
McKinley Natl. Park Denali fault between
Mt. McKinley Natl.
Park and Haines Crillon Lake. Fair-
weather Fault zone SE Alaska and NW
British Columbia San Jacinto fault SE
of Anza
Number of Time
Seismographs Instr. Sites Year Duration
Number of microearthquakes
Observed Located Reference
North and Central America
Hot stylus portable 7 16 1970 6-7 weeks Telemetered and 20 19 1974 -2 months
portable
Magnetic tape 5 3 1%9- 6months
Smoked paper portable 1 recording 7 1972 1970 -300 hr
Smoked paper portable 3 22 1970- -800 hr Smoked paper portable 5 I5 1974 2 months Tripartite anay and 5 - 1%5 39days High-gain portable 3 7 l%S 236hr Smoked paper portable 4 22 1%7 1-3 daysisite
1973
2 single
Smoked paper portable I 1 1963 53 hr Hot stylus portable 4 7 1%9 81 days
Caltech trailer 6 I2 1966- - 5 weeks 1%7
- 2E Leblanc et a / . - 35 Leblancand ( 1973)
Buchbinder
( 1977) (1971)
- -500 17 Ward and Jacob
- lo00 Wood (1974)
- lo00 -20 Reyes ct al. (1975)
- -200 Johnsw et ul.
( 1976)
> 1800 -560 Matumoto and
Ward (1%7)
520 Bouckr et 01.
( 1968) Fitch ( 1W)
A few Boucher and
eventsiday
87 Page (1969)
140 77 Rogers (1976)
- -100 Arabasz et a/
(1970)
California California California California California California California California California
California California California California California California California
California California California
San Andreas fault system Coast of N.
California The Geysers. Sonoma
County
Lassen Peak Volcano Mono Lake, N .
Owens Valley Geysers geothermal
area Whittier fault Elsinore fault zone Cape Mendocino
Fontana-San Bernardino area Long Valley
geothermal area Mesa geothermal area,
Imperial Valley San Jacinto Valley,
Riverside County Coso geothermal area.
China Lake Salton Sea geothermal
area
Caltech trailer 8 Smoked paper portable 5
Magnetic tape 6
recording
USGS 10-day portable 8 USGS 10-day portable 29 USGS telemetered 8 USGS telemetered I 1 Smoked paper portable 6 8 Radio telemetered 10
and others type type
type and 2 permanent
Smoked paper portable 6 USGS 10-day portable 16 Smoked paper portable 6 Smoked paper portable 6 6 smoked paper and 9 15 5 smoked paper and 2 magnetic tape 7
permanent
San Andreas Fault from Caltech trailer 7 Carrizo Plains to
Lake Hughes
Auburn Smoked paper portable 8 Auburn Smoked paper portable 5 The Geysers, Sonoma Radio telemetered. 16
County triggered digital. and smoked paper
-60 1%- >3S,OOO hr
25 1%8 -
6 1968 120 hr 8 1969 13 days 31 1970 20 days 8 1971 3 weeks 1% total
25 1971- -9months 20 1972 >5000hr 10 1972 3 months
1972
16 1972- 6OOO hr 20 1973 1973 5 weeks
6 1973 -5 weeks 10 1973 6weeks I5 1974 33 days 7 1975 8 weeks 20 1976 38-69 days
8 1976 I 1 weeks 5 1976 3 months - 1976 5 days
1977 I I days
0-75iday - 29
-
140 - -
0.5-3.7iday
>m
-
- Hundreds 0- 17lday
>2OOo 2-3lday
-
I5 22
160 19 29 74 53 31 53 I SO
-
70 76 36-
10078 -100
- 165
I5 22 40
BNW and Allen (1%7) Setber er a / .
(1970) Lange and Unger and
coaklcy (1971) Pitt and Steeples
(1975) Hamilton and
MuWer (1972) Lamar (1973) Langcakamp and
Combs (1974) Simila er a / . (197s)
WeSQhd (1%9)
Hadley and Combs (1974) Steeples and Pitt
(1976) Combs and
Hadley (1977) Cheatum and
Combs (1973) Combs and
Rotstein (1976) Gilpin and Lee
( 1978) Carlson er a / .
( 1979) McNally er a / .
( 1978b) Cramer er a / .
( 1978) Majer (1978)
TABLE 111 ( Continued)
Number of
Number of Time microearthquakes
Province/
Country State Locality Seismographs Instr. Sites Year Duration Observed Located Reference
us. Colorado
Hawaii Idaho Montana and
Utah Montana and
Wyoming Montana Nevada Nevada Nevada Nevada Nevada and
California Nevada
New Jersey New Jersey New Mexico
San Luis Valley Hawaiian Ridge Snake River, Stanley/
Intermountain seismic Hebgen Lake-
Sunbeam belt
Yellowstone Park region
area
Helena- Marysville Fallon area Fairview Peak area Fairview Peak and Fairview Peak area Nevada seismic zone Buffalo Valley. Grass
Reno areas
Valley, Buena Vista Valley
Sterling Mine.
Ogdensburg Lake Hopatcong socorro
Smoked paper portable 3 Ocean-bottom type - Smoked paper portable 9 Smoked paper portable 6 Smoked paper portable 6
and land-based
Smoked paper portable 6 Film and magnetic 5 Magnetic tape 24 High-gain portable 2 Magnetic tape 4
tape recording recording
recording
Smoked paper portable 6 Smoked paper and -
radio telemeter4 1 high-gain and 8 9 Smoked paper portable 4
High-gain 7
permanent
8 -
-29 82
6
3 7 24 10 4 29 -
8 6 3
1974 1976- 1977 1972 1%9 1972
1973 1%3 l%5 1%S 1%
1%9 1976
1%2- 1%3 1%9 1W-
3 weeks 8 months 3 weeks 8 days -50 days
-
-2 months 70 days
129 days I15 br
65 hr 6 weeks -3000 hr 8 weeks
730 hr 24 days 20 months
6 359 0 40 -
Wday - 216 1386 -2OO/day 3 1 /day
-
lo00- 120
8 Several 26
I 65 18 0 120 182
97 187 224
315
mi - 70
5 20 13
Keller and Adams
( 1976) EstiU and Odemrd
(1978) Penningtm el a / .
(1974) Sbar et a / .
( 3972b) Trimble and
smith (1975) Frddline el a / . Mickey (1%) Westphal and
Lange (1%7) Oliver er a / . (1%) Stauder and Gumper and Majer (1978)
( 1976)
RyaU (1%7) Scholz (1971)
lsacks and Oliver (1%4) Sbar er a / . (1975) Sanford and
1%2 hundred Holmes (1%2)
New Mexico Socorro High-gain 5 6 1960- - Tennessee SE Missouri and Smoked paper portable 4 I2 1963 I%5 I I days
and W. Tennessee
Missouri
Tennessee Maryville-Alcoa Smoked paper portable 5 5 1976 SO days Virgin Is. E. area Puerto Rico and 4 high-gain portables 6 8 1%5 2 weeks
and Puerto the Virgin Is. and 2 permanent Rico
Virginia Hot Springs area Smoked paper portable 3 7 1973 440hr Virginia Cenual Virginia Smoked paper portable 3 26 1974 91.Zdays Washington MI. Rainier Volcano USGS 10-day portable 5 5 1963 30days Washington MI. Rainier Volcano USGS 10-day portable Y 9 1%Y - 1 month
Wyoming Yellowstone Natl. Park - 12 -29 1972- -26 weeks
seismic zone
1976
geothermal region recording 1975
-
g West Indies St. Luck Sulphur Springs Slow-speed tape 5 5 1974- 39days S ourh A f n ericuColombia Bucaramanga 3-component portable 8 8 1976 3.5 days
and 2 permanent
- 34
45 6
I 1 4
77 19
43 -11
-
34s 65IO/day 67
- - lo00 - 7
27 23
Sanford and Long (1%5) Lammlein er ul
(1971) Sodbinow and Murphy Bollinger er ol. ( 1978)
( 1970) Bollinger and
Gilbert (1974) Bollinger (1975) Ungcr and Decker Unger and Mills Smith er a/. (1977) Aspinall er ol.
( 1970) ( 1972)
(1976)
Pennington er ol
( 1979)
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TABLE IV. Examples of Reconnaissance Micraearthquake Surveys at Sea30 rn
Number of
Number of Time microearthquakes
Location Seismographs Instr. Sites Year Duration Observed Located Reference
Arlanrir Ocean
Mid-Atlantic Ridge mar Magnetic tape recording and 1 2 1972 8days 6-Miday Francis and Porter (1972) Mid-Atlantic Ridge near 37" N Magnetic lape recording and 2 2 1973 -18 days 699 -50-60 Francis rr 01. (1977) Mid-Atlantic Ridge near 3 P N Telemetered radio sonobuoys > 3 - 1973 11 days 104 59 Reid and MacDonald (1973) Mid-Atlantic Ridge near Expendable radio tclemetered 3 - 1973 72 hr 112 29 Spindel er 01. (1974) Mid-Atlantic Ridge, E. St. Ocean-bottom type 4 4 1974 -6days > 300 > 6 Francis CI ol. (1978) Mid-Atlantic Ridge near 45" N. Ocean-bottom type 3 3 1975 -8 days 1 4 5 0 91 Lilwall er cd. (1977, 1978) Reykjanes Ridge near 59" N Ocean-bottom type 2 2 1977 7.5 days 100 34 Lilwall er ol. (1980)
45'35' N ocean-bottom type
ocean-bottom type
36'30' N. m d i valley sonobuoys Paul's bacture mne
median valley
I n d i ~ n Oreon I 1976 50 km NW of RRR triple
junction
Mendocino escarpment, NW Japan Trench, off Sanriku Gulf of California. Mexico Galapagos spreading center Galapagos spreading center,
near Galapagos Island Gulf of California, Mexico Central Basin fault,
Philippine Sea Central part of Fiji Plateau Gorda Ridge
coast of California
Blanco fracture zone E. Pacific Rise and Rivera
fracture zone
Ocean-bottom type 1
Ocean-bottom type 2
Ocean-bottom type 4
Telemetered sonobuoys -
Sonobuoys -
Sonobuoys -
Telemetered sonobuoys and 8
Ocean-bottom type I
Ocean-bottom type I
Quadripartite sonobuoy array, 1 array 2 land stations
radio telemetered and tape recorded
Pucific Ocron 2 1%-
I97 I 4 1970
- I972 - 1972 - 1972 3 1972- 1 1973 1 1973 2 1973 1973
-2 weeks 38
- 5 years -650 - 200
-9dayc 1-12 25
-6weeks -1100
86 min 58
- 9 9 .. hr I5 - 8Oihr
Uweek - 2Mx) -75
63 hr I20
10 days 1 I7
-20 hr 69 10
locals/day
2 tripartite sonobuoy arrays 2 arrays 4 1973 26 hr 38 32
Ocean-bottom capsules in 3 I array 3 1974 -29 days - loo0 - 100
separate tripartite arrays
Solomon ef ( I / . ( 1977)
Nowroozi (1973) Nagumo er d . (19761 Reid el a/. (1973) Northrop ( 1974)
MacDonald and Mudie ( 1974) Reichle and Reid ( 1977) Shimamura er 01. ( 1975) Nagumo ef o / . (1975) Jones and Johnson 1978)
Johnson and Jones ( 1978) Prothero ef a / . (1976): Reid and
Prothero (1981)
TABLE V. Examples of Micro-Aftershock Studies
Main shock Number of
microearthquakes
Date Name Magnitude Field observation Time period Observed Located Reference
Jun. 28. 1948 Fukui (Hukui).
Japan
Oct. 5. 1948 Ashkhabad, USSR
Dec. 26, 1949 Imaichi, Japan
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Aug. 19, 1%1 Kitamino, Japan m mMar. 28, 1964 Alaska
Jun. 16, 1964 Niigata. Japan
Nov. 16, 1964 Corralitos.
Aug. 1%5 Matsushiro California swarms, Japan
Sep. 10, I%5 Antioch, California Jun. 28. 1%6 Parkfield.
California
7.3
7.6
6.7
7.0 8.3
7.5
5.0 (Swam)
4.9 5.5
Tripartite array of 3 high-gain, short-period, vertical-comp.
stations of 3000)
of 10.000 to 35,000) short-period, horizontal-comp.
stations
Tripartite array with one 3-comp.
and 2 vertical-comp. stations Quadripartite army with one
3-comp. and 3 vertical-comp.
stations
2 tripartite arrays with 5 high-gain short-period stations
I5 temporary stations to augment existing stations by various g r o u p
3 temporary stations to augment existing stations
16 temporary stations to augment existing stations
Tripartite array at 4 sites 1 temporary station to augment
existing stations
Data from Univ. of California Seismographic Stations plus temporary stations by various POUPS
4 temporary stations (magnification 7 temporary stations (magnification Tripartite array of 3 high-gain.
Jut. 14- Aug. 10, 1948 Jut.-Oct. 1949 Jun.-Sep. 1953 Dec. 29. 1949-
Jan. 10. 1950 Aug. 27-Sep. 20, May 19-Jun. 7, 1%1
1964 Jul. 2-5. 1964 Jun. 23-Jut. 6.
1964
Nov. 16-23. 1964 Oct. l%Z-Oct.
Oct. ]%%May Sep. 11-20. 1%5 Jun. 28. 1%-
Ian. 12. 1%7 1%7 I %7
262 0
1 .(oo 150
1500 100
623 0
694 149
9061 797
- 249 - 400
> 100 35
- 8061
- > 30,000
106 29
- 20 I
Asada and Suzuki ( 1949)
Rustanovich (1957) Rustanovich ( 1957) Asada and Suzuki ( 19-50)
Miyamura el a / . (1961) Aki er ul. (1%)
Matumoto and Page (1%) Kayano ( 1%8)
McEvilly ( 1%)
Hagiwan and lwata ( 1968) Hamada (1968)
McEvilly and Casaday I1%7) McEvilly er a / . 11%7)