A. Rashidi; M. M. Khatib; S. M. Mosavi; Y. Jamor
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In the S,W Lut Block, geodetic moment rate is more than seismic and geological moment rates. Depending on the type of deformation and geometry of the faults, the study area divided to the 4 parts : northern, central, southern and southeastern (South Lut Block) parts. Values of three types of moment ...
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In the S,W Lut Block, geodetic moment rate is more than seismic and geological moment rates. Depending on the type of deformation and geometry of the faults, the study area divided to the 4 parts : northern, central, southern and southeastern (South Lut Block) parts. Values of three types of moment rates in these area are comparing with each other. The most of geodetic moment rate was obtained respectively in northern, central, southern, southeastern parts of the study area. Geodetic moment rate in the northern part is 2.28E+18 Nm.yr, the central part is 1.86E+18 Nm.yr, the southern part is 1.20E+18 Nm.yr and in the southeastern is 1.10E+18 Nm.yr. The most of seismic moment rate was obtained respectively in central, southeastern, southern, northern parts of the study area. Seismic moment rate in the central part is 5.62316E+17 Nm.yr, in the southeast part is 2.05331E+17 Nm.yr, in the southern part is 1.18984E+17 Nm.yr and in the northern part is 1.03408E+17 Nm.yr. According to Seismic map, maximum seismic moment, respectively is along Gowk, Shahdad, Davaran, East Kerman, Mahan, Bam, Kuhbanan, Dahueiyeh, North Faryab Faults. These faults are responsible for large earthquakes in the study area. The most of geological moment rate was obtained respectively in southern, northern, central, southeastern parts of the study area. Values of geological moment rate for the southern part is 4.16246E+15 Nm.yr, northern part is 2.74157E+15 Nm.yr, centra part is 2.5895E+15 Nm.yr and in the southeastern is 1.08894E+15 Nm.yr. In the study area, maximum geological moment rate is respectively related to west Sabzevaran, Jiroft, Raver, Dalfard, Kuhbanan, Naybandan, Bam, Gowk, Davaran faults. According to values of geological and geodetic moment rates in the four parts of study area and based on the value of the release seismic energy in the central and southeastern parts, it seems that in the next time, the most of seismic potential and seismic hazard are respectively in the northern, southern, central, southeastern parts of the study area. In study area, maximum seismic moment are at years 1981, 1998, 2003, 2010, 2011, 1999, 2005 respectively. Ratio of the geodetic moment rate to the seismic moment rate obtained more than 7.9. This ratio reflects the important role of interseismic deformation in this area. According to the ratio seismic moment rate to geodetic moment rate, in four parts of the study area, can be conclude that the northern and southern parts with ratio: 0.04 and 0.09 are slow strain areas and the central and southeastern parts with ratio 0.30 , 0.18 are fast strain areas. Ratio of seismic moment rate to geological moment rate is 0.93%. This value indicates that 0.93% potential of the faults for seismic energy has been released and not been released a big part of the elastic energy in the area.
Yahya Djamour; S. Tabibi; M. M. Hossainali
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The accuracy of GPS derived positions in short term measurements largely depends on the better modeling of residual errors which is normally reduced in long term measurements by averaging the obtained results. To increase the accuracy of the movements obtained through the analysis of high rate data in ...
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The accuracy of GPS derived positions in short term measurements largely depends on the better modeling of residual errors which is normally reduced in long term measurements by averaging the obtained results. To increase the accuracy of the movements obtained through the analysis of high rate data in geophysics applications, systematic errors in the existing measurements in the corresponding frequency range should be reduced. Calibration techniques and the error reduction are based on the repeatability of the system constellation. For example, those errors affecting the resulting accuracy of the high rate positions in the time scales of 10-600s depend much on the constellation geometry of the GPS satellites and GPS stations. Since the satellite orbits are fixed, those errors are highly repeatable in time. This characteristic is the base for the development of sidereal filtering techniques for reducing this kind of errors. It is assumed that the repeatability occurs based on the nominal repetition period of the satellites; however, the true time of this repeatability varies even for each satellite. In this paper the mean period is estimated as 23h, 55m, and 55s and used for the noise reduction of time series of the relative displacement. By using this period, noises with frequencies less than 0.01Hz of high rate GPS positions have been reduced significantly. Accessible co-seismic displacements are reduced to less than 4mm in horizontal components and less than 10mm in the vertical components.
S. Tabibi; M. M. Hossainali; Yahya Djamour
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Better understanding of earthquakes primarily requires more accurate dynamic and kinematic models for fault rupture. There are several methods for ground motion detection; each of them has its own advantages and limitations. The processes, needed for the estimation of displacements by the seismic data, ...
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Better understanding of earthquakes primarily requires more accurate dynamic and kinematic models for fault rupture. There are several methods for ground motion detection; each of them has its own advantages and limitations. The processes, needed for the estimation of displacements by the seismic data, generally increase the noise. Accelerometers, for example, record the details of strong ground motion close to the earthquake source; however it is difficult to transform the measured accelerations into displacement. Broadband seismometers are more sensitive and more accurate than accelerometers but even those may be saturated or clipped in far distances from a large earthquake. InSAR observations can provide good spatial images of some of the surface displacement components in the rupture area. It has, however, drawbacks in some regions, as the InSAR has no sufficient temporal resolution for the analysis of dynamic short period changes during an earthquake. Most of the GPS monitoring systems process the daily or hourly data in order to achieve the station coordinate with millimeter accuracy. But in warning systems, the temporal delay between the natural event and the act of warning must be the least as much as possible. Increasingly more continuous GPS receivers, established primarily for geophysical studies, are now running in seismic frequencies such as 1-Hz. GPS seismology is the unexpected result of the geodetic networks which at first were established to measure the deformation of plates and tectonic plate boundaries. A GPS receiver can accurately measure the movements in the geological time scales (i.e. 1 mm/yr) and that of seismology (i.e. 500 mm/sec). In this paper, the shape of the seismic waves, obtained from thirteen GPS stations, being in 36 to 74 kms of epicentral distances of San-Simeon Earthquake, 2003 are determined. The efficiency of the relative methods of positioning using high rate data has been analyzed; estimated co-seismic displacements have been validated using similar results obtained from the integration of seismic records.
Yahya Djamour; S. Hashemi Tabatabaei; M. Sedighi; H. R. Nankali
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In previous decades, using traditional geodetic observations such as distance and angle measurements was prevalent in the earth surface displacement studies. After accessing to satellite positioning systems with a high precision ability such as GPS, we encountered to an upheaval in the earth surface ...
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In previous decades, using traditional geodetic observations such as distance and angle measurements was prevalent in the earth surface displacement studies. After accessing to satellite positioning systems with a high precision ability such as GPS, we encountered to an upheaval in the earth surface displacement studies. Indeed using temporal variations of the earth surface deformation, the seismotectonics of the area can be distinguished. Deformation modeling of the area can be accessed using the analyzing of repeated geodetic measurements. In Tehran area the earthquake studies is an important task and in this paper we are going to use GPS measurements for this field. Here 35 GPS stations cover whole of Tehran which consists North Tehran fault. These stations were occupied at least 2 annual epochs and some of them were measured more than 4 times. After processing the acquired data and analyzing the results, the velocity field was obtained. Deformation analysis of the velocity field shows a small left lateral movement about 0.5-2 mm/year and more or less the same value for shortening in the northern band Tehran area. This value is not constant along the northern band and it seems the eastern part where we reach the Mosha fault the deformation is more significant than western part. The observed rate is equal to a total movement of ~5km during 2.5-10 my which is consistent with geological studies carried out in this area.
Yahya Djamour; M. M. Hossainali; Y. H. Chavari; P. Vanicek; H. Nazari; M. Amighpey; S. Arabi
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The technique of precise leveling is certainly the most precise in gathering height difference observations. The main limitation of the mentioned technique is its high cost and low speed characteristics. Hence, for the purpose of repeating the precise leveling measurements (re-leveling), which is necessary ...
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The technique of precise leveling is certainly the most precise in gathering height difference observations. The main limitation of the mentioned technique is its high cost and low speed characteristics. Hence, for the purpose of repeating the precise leveling measurements (re-leveling), which is necessary for vertical geodynamical studies, it is important to gather these observations in an optimum manner. The main purpose of this study is analyzing the characteristic features of the vertical deformation in Iran. This would assist us in concentrating the measurements in the areas that are more prone to vertical deformation as well as the analysis of vertical deformation has a priority in them. For this purpose, various kinds of data from geology, geophysics, seismology, geodesy as well as the population densities have been put together and analyzed. Result of this analysis is a new strategy to make precise re-leveling observations in Iran in a optimum way needed for vertical geodynamical studies, as a solution to the request of National Cartographic Center of Iran.
Yahya Djamour
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Today, the best coordinates of stations on the ground are obtained by using Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) such as Global Positioning System (GPS). There are many error sources affecting the GNSS observations that limit the required accuracies. But differential positioning methods, like double ...
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Today, the best coordinates of stations on the ground are obtained by using Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) such as Global Positioning System (GPS). There are many error sources affecting the GNSS observations that limit the required accuracies. But differential positioning methods, like double difference, are big helps to us to achieve an accuracy of millimeter. Differential operation of GNSS is based on placing a reference station with a GNSS receiver at a known location. One of such errors is the coordinate error of reference station and its propagation on unknown stations. In fact the coordinates of a reference station should be known in a reference system coordinate, such as WGS84 used in GPS, which we usually assume is exactly known. In practice, the position of the reference station in the reference system coordinate may not be exactly known due to different reasons. Therefore, in this study, the effect of the reference station position errors on various ranges from ~4 km to ~90 km, in static mode and using double difference carrier phase, is investigated. The results show this effect could be of the order of a few ppm depending on error magnitude of reference position and the range of baseline.
Sh. Roohi; Y. Jamour
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Today, one of the main objectives of the geodesy is to identify the changes over time at the surface of the earth. It is critical to the design of the infrastructures to know these changes and to be able to predict their trends with time, as any ignorance could lead to incompensable losses ...
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Today, one of the main objectives of the geodesy is to identify the changes over time at the surface of the earth. It is critical to the design of the infrastructures to know these changes and to be able to predict their trends with time, as any ignorance could lead to incompensable losses to the society. One way to investigate and measure the changes is to establish permanent GPS stations and to process the time series data from the stations. The amplitude and mode of the periodic movements and the parameters of the linear movements can be investigated by the application of the maximum likelihood of the type and amplitude of the noises in the time series.
The noise analysis in time series allows the real changes recorded in any stations in the geodynamic network to be accurately measured. With the application of the measured parameters in the deformation equations, the changes in the crust of the earth can be appropriately interpreted. This research shows that the white and flicker noises in vertical components are more than those in the horizontal components. Without the application of noise analysis on time series, the estimated errors for the rate of changes in the geodynamic stations would be underestimated by 8 times.
L. Karimi Dehkordi; B. Vosoughi; Y. Djamour
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In this study work the idea of the optimal design of GPS monitoring network is extended in order to estimate the parameters of a single strike slip fault: i.e. slip rate and locking depth. By using some numerical examples, the influence of the GPS station distances from the fault trace has been investigated. ...
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In this study work the idea of the optimal design of GPS monitoring network is extended in order to estimate the parameters of a single strike slip fault: i.e. slip rate and locking depth. By using some numerical examples, the influence of the GPS station distances from the fault trace has been investigated. The results show that far GPS stations have more advantages for estimating of slip rate. In contrast, the near stations are important for locking depth.
