Radon measurements for earthquake prediction along the North Anatolian Fault Zone: a progress report
- Author(s)
- Harry Friedmann, Kayihan Aric, Rudolf Gutdeutsch
- Abstract
Radon (222Rn) concentration has been continuously measured since 1983 in groundwater at a spring and in subsurface soil gas at five sites along a 200km segment of the North Anatolian Fault Zone near Bolu, Turkey. The groundwater radon concentration showed a significant increase before the Biga earthquake of magnitude 5.7 on 5 July 1983 at an epicentral distance of 350km, and a long-term increase between March 1983 and April 1985. The soil-gas radon concentration showed large changes in 1985, apparently not meteorologically induced. The soil-gas and groundwater data at Bolu did not show any obvious correlation. -Authors
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Meteorology and Geophysics
- Journal
- Tectonophysics
- Volume
- 152
- Pages
- 209-214
- No. of pages
- 6
- ISSN
- 0040-1951
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-1951(88)90047-9
- Publication date
- 1988
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 1030 Physics, Astronomy
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/radon-measurements-for-earthquake-prediction-along-the-north-anatolian-fault-zone-a-progress-report(f5d4cbcf-ac8d-4673-892e-11188d47683e).html