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Real-time capturing of seismic waveforms using high-rate BDS, GPS and GLONASS observations: the 2017 Mw 6.5 Jiuzhaigou earthquake in China

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The rapid development of the BeiDou Satellite Navigation System (BDS) and other Global Navigation Satellite System (multi-GNSS) constellations provides a great opportunity to contribute to earthquake early warning systems in terms of capturing displacement and velocity waveforms for the estimation of magnitude and fault slip inversion. In this study, we demonstrate the capability of BDS and the benefit of multi-GNSS for real-time capturing seismic waveforms using the combined high-rate BDS + GPS + GLONASS data collected during the 2017 Mw 6.5 Jiuzhaigou earthquake. For this event, we found that the displacements, derived from BDS precise point positioning (PPP) are better than that of Global Positioning System-only (GPS) results, especially in the east and vertical components with improvements of 43% and 23%. While the velocity waveforms from BDS present a comparable performance with GPS. the multi-GNSS fusion can significantly improve the accuracy by 47%, 55%, and 28% in the east, north, and vertical components compared with GPS-only results. The BDS and multi-GNSS derived displacement waveforms agree quite well with those obtained from integrating the acceleration, with accuracy at the millimeter level. In addition, the theoretical permanent displacement field calculated from a finite-fault slip model is selected as an independent reference, and the differences between GNSS derived permanent displacements and theoretical permanent displacements are mostly less than 1 mm. Therefore, we conclude that the BDS and multi-GNSS fusion can significantly contribute to the real-time capture of accurate seismic waveforms and that it has the potential to benefit for earthquake early warning and rapid geohazard assessment.

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Acknowledgements

We are very grateful to MGEX (http://mgex.igs.org/IGS_MGEX_Data.php), CMONOC (http://www.cmonoc.cn), and BDGBAS (http://www.scbsm.gov.cn/) for providing multi-GNSS data. This work is funded by the China Scholarship Council (CSC, file 201706270123).

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  1. School of Geodesy and Geomatics, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

    Xingxing Li, Kai Zheng & Xin Li

  2. German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ, Telegrafenberg, 14473, Potsdam, Germany

    Xingxing Li, Kai Zheng, Maorong Ge, Jens Wickert & Harald Schuh

  3. Key Laboratory of Earthquake Geodesy, Institute of Seismology, China Earthquake Administration, Wuhan, 430071, China

    Gang Liu

  4. Technische Universität Berlin, 10623, Berlin, Germany

    Jens Wickert & Harald Schuh

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Li, X., Zheng, K., Li, X. et al. Real-time capturing of seismic waveforms using high-rate BDS, GPS and GLONASS observations: the 2017 Mw 6.5 Jiuzhaigou earthquake in China. GPS Solut 23, 17 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10291-018-0808-9

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