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A weekend effect in the seismicity of Japan

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The study of weekly cyclicity of any one process is one method to search for anthropogenic, in particular, technogenic effects. The present work is devoted to a detailed study of weekly and diurnal inhomogeneities of distribution for earthquakes in Japan. Statistically significant differences between the parameters of the studied distributions were revealed for Sundays (compared to other days of week) in the series of weak, nonrepresentative earthquakes. Samplings of stronger earthquakes did not show that effect. This suggests that a weekend effect in the series of weak earthquakes is an apparent one caused by the noise discrimination of seismic waves. However, noise discrimination cannot explain the nighttime decrease in earthquake number after its day growth on Sunday. With respect to this, different hypotheses explaining the appearance of a weekend effect in the studied earthquake catalog of Japan are considered.

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Original Russian Text © A.Ya. Sidorin, 2014, published in Geofizicheskie Protsessy i Biosfera, 2014, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 64–82.

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Sidorin, A.Y. A weekend effect in the seismicity of Japan. Izv. Atmos. Ocean. Phys. 50, 824–838 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001433814080076

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