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- From: andy@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Andy Michael USGS Guest)
- Newsgroups: ca.earthquakes
- Subject: Re: Parkfield
- Date: 24 Dec 1992 20:20:31 GMT
- Organization: Stanford Univ. Earth Sciences
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- In article <1992Dec24.011255.3268@netcom.com> alden@netcom.com (Andrew L. Alden) writes:
- >Andy, thanks for a nice exchange. While we're on the subject, why don't
- Glad we're having fun and for the opportunity to say how we think about it.
-
- >you post a bit about how you applied the "A alert" criteria to the
- >historic instrumental record at Parkfield? That didn't get any press,
- >but I liked the research.
-
- Actually I borrowed that slide from Bill Bakun, its his work, and the
- criteria were designed around the historic record. Here's how the
- alert criteria should have worked had they existed in 1934 and 1966:
-
- 1934:
- Two felt forshocks on June 5. Assumming felt events were at Middle
- Mountain and were above magnitude 2.5, then the first would be a
- C level alert and the second would combine with it to produce a B
- level alert. A magnitude 5 event that is clearly at Middle
- on June 6 creates an A level alert and public warning. The foreshock
- 17 minutes before the mainshock on June 8 would extend the A level
- alert for 72 hours, but the M6 mainshock occurs on June 8.
-
- 1966:
- On June 16 cracks in the ground along the San Andreas fault are observed.
- If these are signs of fault creep (and not dessication of the mud from
- lack of rain) then this could be a C level creep alert (the actual level
- is a bit of a guess). On June 27 a irrigation pipe breaks where it
- crosses the San Andreas with San Andreas style motion. If this is a
- larger creep event the experiment might now be at a B level alert. But
- once again this is sort of a guess (Peter Malin calls the pipe "an article
- of faith for the true Parkfield believers." BTW, he's not a critic of
- the project but operates the downhole digital seismic network there).
- 9 hours later an M5 event creates an A level alert and 17 minutes later
- the M6 mainshock occurs. Of course, it may be hard to do much with
- only 17 minutes warning unless everything is automated.
-
- Remember, the alert criteria were designed so that they would have been
- as successful as possible for these two cases.
-
- Andy
-