Published November 2005
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Journal article
Variations of soil radon and thoron concentrations in a fault zone and prospective earthquakes in SW Taiwan
Creators
- 1. Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University, P.O. Box 13-318, Taipei 10699, Taiwan (China) and National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering, Taipei 106, Taiwan (China)
- 2. National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering, Taipei 106, Taiwan (China)
- 3. Department of Geology, University of Akron, OH 44325-4101 (United States)
- 4. Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University, P.O. Box 13-318, Taipei 10699, Taiwan (China)
- 5. Central Geological Survey, MOEA, Taipei 235, Taiwan (China)
Description
An automatic station for soil gas monitoring was set up on an active fault zone of SW Taiwan. After more than one year of continuous measurements, some spike-like anomalous high radon and thoron concentrations could be observed. A similar soil radon spectrum was also obtained from an independent monitoring station, which was only 100m away. These anomalous peaks usually occurred a few days or weeks before the earthquakes (ML>=4.5). This indicates that variations of both soil radon and thoron can serve as useful tools for earthquake surveillance, esp. at fault zones
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.radmeas.2005.05.017;
- PII
- S1350-4487(05)00172-1;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Radiation Measurements
- Journal Volume
- 40
- Journal Issue
- 2-6
- Journal Page Range
- p. 496-502
- ISSN
- 1350-4487
- CODEN
- RMEAEP
Conference
- Title
- 22. international conference on nuclear tracks in solids
- Dates
- 23-27 Aug 2004
- Place
- Barcelona (Spain)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 37085266
- Subject category
- S61: RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- EARTHQUAKES; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATIONS; HELIUM 3; HELIUM 4; RADIATION MONITORING; RADON; RADON 220; SOILS; TAIWAN
- Descriptors DEC
- ALPHA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; ASIA; CHINA; ELEMENTS; EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI; EVEN-ODD NUCLEI; FLUIDS; GASES; HEAVY NUCLEI; HELIUM ISOTOPES; ISLANDS; ISOTOPES; LIGHT NUCLEI; MONITORING; NONMETALS; NUCLEI; RADIOISOTOPES; RADON ISOTOPES; RARE GASES; SECONDS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; SEISMIC EVENTS; STABLE ISOTOPES; VARIATIONS
Optional Information
- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2005 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.