JaLCDOI 10.18926/ESR/66845
Title Alternative Microtremor exploration in Tsushima Campus, Okayama University
FullText URL esr_030_013_020.pdf
Author YAMADA, Nobuyuki| TAKENAKA, Hiroshi|
Abstract  In this report, microtremor array observations were conducted in the Tsushima Campus of Okayama University, and the subsurface velocity structure was estimated from the analysis of the records. The results indicate that a five-layer S-wave velocity structure from the surface to the seismic basement equivalent layer with thicknesses of 8, 24, 80 and 180 m and velocities of 150, 450, 1100, 1700 and 3200 m/s, respectively, is reasonable. This model explains to some extent the observed phase velocity and H/V spectral ratios. It is also consistent with the surface borehole results. Furthermore, the areal characteristics of the H/V spectral ratios were also presented, allowing us to estimate the trend of the ground structure in shallow areas.
Keywords Okayama Microtremor array exploration S-wave velocity H/V spectral ratio
Publication Title Okayama University Earth Science Report
Published Date 2024-03-31
Volume volume30
Issue issue1
Start Page 13
End Page 20
ISSN 1340-7414
language Japanese
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JaLCDOI 10.18926/ESR/61959
Title Alternative Estimation of displacement waveforms by baseline correction of near-fault acceleration records of the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake with median filter
FullText URL esr_027_039_050.pdf
Author Watanabe, Tomotsugu| Komatsu, Masanao| Takenaka, Hiroshi|
Abstract The 2016 Kumamoto earthquake sequence occurred on April 14 (MJMA 6.5) and April 16 (MJMA 7.3). Seismic intensity of 7 on the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) scale was observed in Mashiki Town, Kumamoto Prefecture for the both events and in Nishihara Village, Kumamoto Prefecture for the April-16 event. We estimate the displacement waveforms from these acceleration records. Since the acceleration seismograms include the long-period noise due to tilting of the ground and instrumental effects, the baseline corrections are required to derive the accurate velocity and displacement waveforms. We apply a median filter to the velocity waveforms to identify the linear trends on them due to the steplike noise on the acceleration records, and determine the time at which baseline shifts take place and the step value of each shift for the baseline correction through trial and error. Our baseline correction can successfully reconstruct the velocity and displacement waveforms from the acceleration records. The displacement waveforms show the static components consistent with the geodetic data.
Keywords 2016 Kumamoto earthquake baseline correction median filter displacement
Publication Title Okayama University Earth Science Report
Published Date 2021-03-31
Volume volume27
Issue issue1
Start Page 39
End Page 50
ISSN 1340-7414
language Japanese
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NAID 120007037380
JaLCDOI 10.18926/ESR/61956
Title Alternative Synthetic nearfield seismograms at a subsurface position in a horizontally layered half-space
FullText URL esr_027_029_038.pdf
Author Takenaka, Hiroshi| Watanabe, Tomotsugu|
Abstract We extend the computational code of Takenaka and Sasatani (2000) for synthetic nearfield seismograms for horizontally layered elastic media, based on the reflection/transmission matrices and the discrete wavenumber summation method, to calculate seismic motion and its spatial derivatives at a subsurface position in the attenuative media. In this paper we describe the theory of this extension and show some numerical examples to verify the extended code.
Keywords synthetic seismogram reflectivity method layered half-space
Publication Title Okayama University Earth Science Report
Published Date 2021-03-31
Volume volume27
Issue issue1
Start Page 29
End Page 38
ISSN 1340-7414
language Japanese
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NAID 120007037377
JaLCDOI 10.18926/ESR/58574
Title Alternative Computation of non-linear site response by the time-domain finite-difference method
FullText URL esr_026_001_017.pdf
Author TORIGOE, Yusuke| KOMATSU, Masanao| TAKENAKA, Hiroshi|
Abstract We have developed a time-domain staggered-grid finite-difference code for modeling non-linear response of a one-dimensionally inhomogeneous subsurface structure to a SH plane-wave incidence. It employs the velocity-stress formulation of elastodynamic equation for the linear part, and adopts a elastoplastic rheology model for the non-linear relation between the stress and strain. In this paper, we apply this code to four constitutive models from linear-elastic to nonlinear: (1) linear elastic model, (2) linear viscoelastic model, (3) elastoplastic model, and (4) viscoelastoplastic model, which simulate shallow sand and clay structures and are vibrated by a vertically incident SH plane-wave of Ricker wavelet, to compare the linear and the non-linear soil behaviors including low strains damping (viscoelastic effect) and/or hysteretic attenuation (non-linear effect). We also apply it to a local strong-motion record of the 2000 Western-Tottori earthquake (MW6.8). We then simulate characteristics of non-linear site response such as reduction of the spectral amplitude in the high frequency band and shift of the peak frequencies to lower frequencies.
Keywords finite-difference method non-linear site response strong motion
Publication Title Okayama University Earth Science Report
Published Date 2019-12-27
Volume volume26
Issue issue1
Start Page 1
End Page 17
ISSN 1340-7414
language Japanese
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JaLCDOI 10.18926/ESR/54116
Title Alternative Application of simulated annealing to focal mechanism determination
FullText URL esr_022_1_009_023.pdf
Author Komatsu, Masanao| Takenaka, Hiroshi|
Abstract Simulated annealing (SA) is known as one of the efficient methods for global optimization. It allows for getting an optimal solution by jumping out of local minimum. In this paper, we apply the simulated annealing to determination of focal mechanism solution. To investigate the feasibility of the application, we determine focal mechanism solution of the 14 March 2014 Iyo-Nada intermediatedepth earthquake. The computation of SA method is then 1278 times faster than that of the grid search method.
Keywords focal mechanism solution
Publication Title Okayama University Earth Science Report
Published Date 2015-12-27
Volume volume22
Issue issue1
Start Page 9
End Page 23
ISSN 1340-7414
language Japanese
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NAID 120005728632