CHENG Wei,
HU XiaoGang,
HAO XiaoGuang
.2018.A further study of anomalous tremors before the 14 November 2001 Kunlun MS8.1 earthquake.Chinese Journal Of Geophysics,61(4): 1298-1306,doi: 10.6038/cjg2018K0463
A further study of anomalous tremors before the 14 November 2001 Kunlun MS8.1 earthquake
CHENG Wei1,2, HU XiaoGang1, HAO XiaoGuang1
1. State Key Laboratory of Geodesy and Earth's Dynamics, Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430077, China; 2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Abstract:Significant anomalous tremors, observed by the Xinjiang Digital Seismograph Network of China before the 14 November 2001 Kunlun MS8.1 earthquake, are further investigated in this study. It is noted that Chinese scientists have paid much attention to these tremors, as they appeared three days before the great earthquake and the stations recorded them are very close to the epicenter. So they were considered a result of an unknown slow-earthquake event, a possible precursor of the great earthquake. In this study, we examined the data of 187 seismographers in Asia and Europe, and found out that all of them recorded significant tremors in November 11-12, 2001, three or two days before the main shock. We noted that it is KONO, a station located close to the coast of Norway, recorded the strongest tremor signals. Investigating the historic meteorological reports noticed that a very strong Arctic windstorm occurred in Norwegian Sea in November 11-12, 2001. We located an area for generating the significant tremors, which is a shallow sea region close to the southwest coast of Norway. We thus suggest that the significant tremors before the 2011 Kunlun earthquake were not resulted from a slow earthquake event, instead microseismic waves excited by the Arctic windstorm. Our study indicates that the Arctic windstorm can cause significant tremors, which can affect the observations of gravimeters and seismographers in mainland China. So micro seismic waves caused by the Arctic windstorms cannot be neglected when we investigate anomalous tremors.
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