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Effects of seasonal changes in ambient noise sources on monitoring temporal variations in crustal properties

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Continuous data recorded at 39 broadband stations near the Longmen Shan Fault operated by the China Earthquake Administration from 1 January 2008 to 30 September 2010 are used to study temporal variability in direct surface wave arrivals extracted from ambient noise. We use a cross-correlation technique to compute Empirical green functions (EGFs) for all available station pairs at the frequency range of 0.1 to 0.5Hz. Delay times are measured by cross-correlating reference empirical green functions and moving 60-day stacks of EGFs. By comparing the temporal changes with and without the correction for seasonal variations, our results show that for some station pairs temporal variations were strongly affected by the seasonal variation. After correction for seasonal variations, we measure a 0.5-% maximum velocity drop after the 2008 Ms8.0 earthquake in Sichuan, China. We find that the Sichuan Basin exhibited a larger relative velocity drop than the Tibetan plateau area. Our results suggest that correction for seasonal variation is an important procedure for monitoring temporal variations in crustal properties using the direct arrival surface waves extracted from ambient noise.

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Acknowledgments

This research was supported by Open Fund (No. GDL1202) of Key Laboratory of Geo-detection (China University of Geosciences, Beijing), Ministry of Education, National Science Foundation of China under Grant 41174050, the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (NCET), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, and the US National Science Foundation under Grant 0738779.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Geo-detection, Ministry of Education, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, 100083, China

    Meng Gong, Hongyi Li & Xinfu Li

  2. Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, 02882, RI, USA

    Meng Gong & Yang Shen

  3. Shanxi Lanyan Coalbed Methane Co. Ltd., Jincheng, 048000, Shanxi, China

    Jinsheng Jia

  4. Seismological Bureau of Hebei Province, Shijiazhuang, 050000, China

    Meng Gong

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Gong, M., Shen, Y., Li, H. et al. Effects of seasonal changes in ambient noise sources on monitoring temporal variations in crustal properties. J Seismol 19, 781–790 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10950-015-9494-z

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