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Design of the Optimal Seismological Network in Ukraine

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It is necessary to have reliable data on the distributions of earthquake hypocenters in the study area to solve many geological and geophysical problems, in particular, the forecast of strong earthquakes, seismic zoning and earthquake-proof construction. In turn, the completeness of the data on the distribution of earthquake hypocenters and the accuracy of their determination largely depends on the effectiveness of the observing system. The efficiency of the modern Ukrainian network of seismological observations that consists of 28 stations is estimated in this article. By the effectiveness of the seismological observation network we mean the ability of the network to record events with minimal magnitudes at certain epicentral distances and allowing us to determine its main parameters (time in the focus and coordinates of hypocenters) with minimal errors depending on the position of the earthquake hypocenter. Calculation of the minimum magnitude of earthquakes for the Ukrainian seismological network shows if each seismic station increase of susceptibility to 50,000 units then the seismological the network confidently registers earthquakes with a magnitude of 3 or more throughout the Ukraine. The errors in the determination of the coordinates of epicenters of earthquakes in latitude (δφ) (km) and in longitude (δλ) (km) do not exceed 1.0 km in the center of the network and 5.0 km on the periphery of the network. The values of errors in determining the depths of the earthquake (H) (km) centers in the center of the network does not exceed 5.0 km but on the whole territory of Ukraine does not exceed 20 km. The optimal configuration of the network of Ukrainian seismic stations based on the C-criterion of optimality, introduced earlier to the theory design of optimal experiments by one of the authors of the article, is proposed.

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Burmin, V.Y., Shumlianska, L.A. Design of the Optimal Seismological Network in Ukraine. Pure Appl. Geophys. 177, 3651–3665 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-020-02453-9

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