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The occurrence process of the Xingtai earthquake (1996) is discussed on the basis of evolution of small scale ground temperature fields on the background of large ground temperature field. It point out that the merging and strengthening of GHV is one of the basic reasons for triggering the Xingtai earthquake. It is worthy to pay attention that the earthquake precursors (for example ground temperature …) does not clear with the shorter distance from the epicenter. It is an urgent task for earthquake prediction to strengthen the supervision of some spatial-temporal continuous elements (such as G.T, geomagnetism, ground tilt field, gravity, etc.) and carry out comprehensive analysis.
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Tang, MC., Gao, XQ. Analysis of the geothermal vortexes triggering the Xingtai earthquake in 1966. Acta Seimol. Sin. 10, 379–385 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11589-997-0077-0
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