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COMPLETENESS OF THE COSTA RICA NATIONAL SEISMOLOGICAL NETWORK CATALOG DURING 1975-2014
Published 2017-10-06
Keywords
- completeness magnitude,
- seismicity of Costa Rica,
- Stepp method
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Arroyo, M., Godínez, K., & Linkimer, L. (2017). COMPLETENESS OF THE COSTA RICA NATIONAL SEISMOLOGICAL NETWORK CATALOG DURING 1975-2014. Boletín De Geología, 39(3), 87–98. https://doi.org/10.18273/revbol.v39n3-2017006
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Abstract
This study evaluates the stability of the mean earthquake occurrence rate and the temporal distribution of seismicity in Costa Rica from the Stepp method, in order to determine the completeness magnitude of the seismic catalog of the National Seismological Network (RSN) and the Gutenberg-Richter relationship for the period 1975-2014. The catalog was filtered using several criteria and homogenized to moment magnitude (Mw). The magnitude of completeness obtained for the entire catalog is 5.0, but it could be as low as 3.0 for certain periods of time. These results show the improvement in seismic detection due to the change from analogue to digital systems since 1990 and the considerable increase in the number of stations since 1995. The value b obtained for this catalog is 0.96, which is very similar to regional b values obtained in previous studies, nevertheless, the limitations discussed in this paper have to be considered in order to interpret this value.
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Benito, B., y Jiménez, M. 1999. Peligrosidad sísmica. Física de la Tierra, 11: 13-47.
Benito, B., Lindholm, C., Camacho, E., Climent, A., Marroquin, G., Molina, E., Rojas, W., Escobar, J., Talavera, E., Alvarado, G., and Torres, Y. 2012. A new evaluation of seismic hazard for the Central America Region. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 102(2): 504-523.
Caneva, A., Salcedo, E., Van Hissenhoven, R., y Alfaro, A. 2003. Estudio de sismicidad regional para el análisis de la amenaza sísmica para Bogotá. Ingeniería y Universidad, 7(2): 133-150.
Cárdenas, C., Garzón, Y., Santa, L., y Castillo, L. 2010. Modelo de Poisson para la ocurrencia y magnitud espacio-temporal de los sismos en Colombia. UD y la Geomática. 4: 28-43.
Chouliaras, G. 2009. Investigating the earthquake catalog of the National Observatory of Athens. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 9: 905-912.
Fan, G., Beck, S., and Wallace, T. 1993. The seismic source parameters of the 1991 Costa Rica aftershock sequence: Evidence for a transcurrent plate boundary. Journal of Geophysical Research, 98(B9): 15759-15778.
Franco, A., Lasserre, D., Lyon-Caen, H., Kostoglodov, V., Molina, E., Guzman-Speziale, M., Monterosso, D., Robles, V., Figueroa, C., Amaya, W., Barrier, E., Chiquin, L., Moran, S., Flores, O., Romero, J., Santiago, J.A., Manea, M., and Manea, V. C. 2012. Fault kinematics in northern Central America and coupling along the subduction interface of the Cocos Plate, from GPS data in Chiapas (Mexico), Guatemala and El Salvador. Geophysical Journal International, 189(3): 1223-1236.
Goes, S., Velasco, A., and Schwartz, S. 1993. The April 22, 1991, Valle de la Estrella, Costa Rica (MW 7.7) earthquake and its tectonic implications: A broadband seismic study. Journal Geophysical Research, 98(B5): 8127-8142.
Gutenberg, B., and Richter, C. 1944. Frequency of earthquakes in California. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 34(4): 185-188.
Knopoff, L. 2000. The magnitude distribution of declustered earthqaukes in Southern California. Proceedings of the National Academy Sciences USA, 97(22): 11880-11884.
Kulhanek, O. 2005. Seminar on b-value. Technical Report, Department of Geophysics, Charles University, Prague.
Laporte, M., Lindholm, C., Bungum, H., and Dahle, A. 1994 Seismic hazard for Costa Rica. NORSAR, Technical Report No. 2-14, 73p.
Lucke, O. 2014. Moho structure of Central America based on three-dimensional lithospheric density modelling of satellite-derived gravity data. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 103(7): 1733-1745.
Marshall, J., Fisher, D., and Gardner, T. 2000. Central Costa Rica deformed belt: Kinematics of diffuse faulting across the western Panama block. Tectonics, 19(3): 468-492.
Mendoza, A.R. 2012. Estudio de la estabilidad del valor b para regiones sismotectónicas de México. Tesis de Maestría, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México. 127p.
Mignan, A., and Woessner, J. 2012. Estimating the magnitude of completeness for earthquake catalogs. Community Online Resource for Statistical Seismicity Analysis, 4: 1-45.
Montero, W. 2001. Neotectónica de la región central de Costa Rica: Frontera oeste de la microplaca de Panamá. Revista Geológica de América Central, 24: 29-56.
Montero, W., y Rojas, W. 2014. Las fallas Purires y Picagres y su relación con la secuencia sísmica de Puriscal de 1990. Revista Geológica de América Central, 50: 39-69.
Morales, L.D., 1986. Historia de la sismología en Costa Rica. Revista de Filosofía Universidad de Costa Rica, 24(59): 93-104.
Nasir, A., Lendhart, W., Hintersberger, E., and Decker, K. 2013. Assessing the completeness of historical and instrumental earthquake data in Austria and the surrounding areas. Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences, 106(1): 90-102.
Naylor, M., Orofanogiannaki, K., and Harte, D. 2010. Exploratory data analysis: Magnitude, space, and time. Community Online Resource for Statistical Seismicity Analysis, 3: 1-42.
Rojas, W. 1993. Catálogo de sismicidad histórica y reciente en América Central: Desarrollo y análisis. Tesis, Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica. 91p.
Rojas, W., Cowan, H., Lindholm, C., Dahle, A., and Bungum, H. 1993. Regional seismic zonation for Central América: A preliminary model. NORSAR Report. Norway.
Sobiesiak, M. 2000. Fault plane structure of the Antofagasta, Chile Earthquake of 1995. Geophysical Research Letters, 27(4): 581-584.
Sobiesiak, M. 2005. Fault plane structure of the 1995 Antofagasta Earthquake (Chile) derived from local seismological parameters. Tesis Doctoral, Universitat Potsdam, Alemania. 137p.
Stepp, J.C. 1972. Analysis of completeness of the earthquake sample in the Puget Sound area and its effect on statistical estimates of earthquake hazard. Proceedings of the International Conference on Microzonation, 2: 897-910.
Valladares, R. 2013. Determinación de parámetros sísmicos asociados con la amenaza sísmica en la región nororiental de Venezuela. Tesis, Universidad de Oriente, Venezuela. 77p.
Wiemer, S., and Wyss, M. 2000. Minimum magnitude of completeness in earthquake catalogs: Examples from Alaska, the Western United States, and Japan. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 90(4): 859-869.
Wiemer, S. 2001. A software package to analyze seismicity: ZMAP. Seismological Research Letters, 72(3): 373-382.
Woessner, J., and Wiemer, S. 2005. Assessing the quality of earthquake catalogues: Estimating the magnitude of completeness and its uncertainty. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 95(2): 684-698.