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Lg Attenuation near the North Korean Border with China, Part I: Model Development from Regional Earthquake Sources

School of Ocean and Earth Science, Tongji University, 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai 200092, China kychun{at}tongji.edu.cn wyllmein2000{at}tom.com gary{at}core.yorku.ca

^* Now at Department of Physics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada, chun@physics.utoronto.ca.

We have collected broadband data from three seismic networks—two portable and one permanent—in a remote part of northeast China bordering North Korea. The combined network coverage allows first-hand investigations of seismic-wave propagation in a region of import for nuclear test ban monitoring research. Application of the reversed two-station method to the newly acquired data has produced stable measurements of the quality factor Q (=Q₀f) for Lg waves. The results, a weighted regional average over 23 interstation paths involving 51 events and 21 stations, point to 1 Hz Q (or Q₀) of 345 and of 0.38 in a jarring incongruity with what appears to be a popular perception of the region as being of very low attenuation for Lg waves. The results also show that Lg Q varies from one interstation path to another. The highest Lg-wave attenuation (110<Q₀<140) is found along interstation paths that crossed two recently active volcanoes (Huangyishan and Changbaishan). The subregion exhibiting the next highest Lg attenuation is Bohai, an extensional basin known to feature above-average heat flow.

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				K.-Y. Chun and G. A. Henderson Lg Attenuation near the North Korean Border with China, Part II: Model Development from the 2006 Nuclear Explosion in North Korea Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, October 1, 2009; 99(5): 3030 - 3038. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]