Radon measurements for earthquake prediction along the North Anatolian Fault Zone: a progress report

Autor(en)

Harry Friedmann, Kayihan Aric, Rudolf Gutdeutsch

Abstrakt

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(en)

Institut für Meteorologie und Geophysik

Journal

Tectonophysics

Band

152

Seiten

209-214

Anzahl der Seiten

6

ISSN

0040-1951

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-1951(88)90047-9

Publikationsdatum

1988

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

1030 Physik, Astronomie

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/radon-measurements-for-earthquake-prediction-along-the-north-anatolian-fault-zone-a-progress-report(f5d4cbcf-ac8d-4673-892e-11188d47683e).html