GeofizikaPub Date : 2022-01-24DOI: 10.15233/gfz.2021.38.7
M. Mustać, I. Dasović, Helena Latečki, I. Cecić
{"title":"The public response and educational outreach through social media after the Zagreb earthquake of 22 March 2020","authors":"M. Mustać, I. Dasović, Helena Latečki, I. Cecić","doi":"10.15233/gfz.2021.38.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15233/gfz.2021.38.7","url":null,"abstract":"Following the 22 March 2020 ML 5.5 earthquake near Zagreb, Croatia, the citizens became increasingly interested in earthquakes and the multitude of simultaneous visitors caused the webpage with Croatian Seismological Survey reports on earthquakes to crash. To remedy the situation, seismologists used social network accounts to provide information, using the opportunity to educate the citizens on basic concepts of seismology, earthquake preparedness and the occurring seismic sequence. Citizens’ feedback was useful to improve the communication, but required extensive moderation. In July 2020, three seismologists from the Department of Geophysics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, one from the Slovenian Environment Agency, and a psychologist from the Croatian Catholic University conducted a poll to find out which sources of information citizens mostly use, their knowledge about earthquakes, and the level of fear they were experiencing due to the earthquakes. Most respondents relied on institutional sources of information and their knowledge on different aspects of earthquake preparedness increased relatively compared to the time before the earthquake. The majority of respondents was extremely worried on the day of the mainshock, predominantly because they were concerned of a possible stronger event, their safety and the safety of their close ones.","PeriodicalId":50419,"journal":{"name":"Geofizika","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41745440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GeofizikaPub Date : 2022-01-24DOI: 10.15233/gfz.2021.38.6
M. Herak, D. Herak, Niksa Orlic
{"title":"Properties of the Zagreb 22 March 2020 earthquake sequence","authors":"M. Herak, D. Herak, Niksa Orlic","doi":"10.15233/gfz.2021.38.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15233/gfz.2021.38.6","url":null,"abstract":"Although strong and damaging earthquakes have hit Zagreb in the past, the 22 March 2020 earthquake (Mw 5.4) is the first one that was recorded by a modern digital local seismic network, and which could be analysed not only by macroseismic methods, but also by microseismic ones. Herewith we used the 3003 carefully analysed and located events from the first year of the aftershock sequence to learn more about the aftershock rate decay, their magnitude distribution, focal mechanisms and hypocentral locations. The aftershock activity rate was found to closely follow the modified Omori law, and fault-plane solutions for 10 events indicated prevailing pure-reverse faulting. Our analyses suggest that the reverse North Medvednica boundary fault (NMBF) was the causative fault, as it fits with the focal mechanisms and with the geometry of aftershock locations.\u0000The epicentral area was of a triangular shape with the mainshock in one vertex, and the opposite side of the triangle lying parallel to the surface trace of the NMBF. The hypocentres of aftershocks were predominantly located in the hanging wall of the fault. No surface break was observed, so the rupture is assumed to be buried. These facts were interpreted as a combination of the effect of conservation of mass (seismic flow) requiring some fault-parallel stress redistribution and transfer of material, and the fault loading and activation in the compressive environment controlled by the stress partition at the brittle-ductile transition zone within the crust. The later process involves compression within the hanging wall during the interseismic stage when the fault segment in the brittle crust is locked, followed by sudden dilatation during the rupture phase.","PeriodicalId":50419,"journal":{"name":"Geofizika","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41413884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GeofizikaPub Date : 2022-01-24DOI: 10.15233/gfz.2021.38.9
Jakov Stanislav Uglešić, S. Markušić, B. Padovan, D. Stanko
{"title":"Semi-empirical estimation of the Zagreb ML 5.5 earthquake (2020) ground motion amplification by 1D equivalent linear site response analysis","authors":"Jakov Stanislav Uglešić, S. Markušić, B. Padovan, D. Stanko","doi":"10.15233/gfz.2021.38.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15233/gfz.2021.38.9","url":null,"abstract":"The 22 March 2020 Zagreb ML 5.5 earthquake ground shaking resulted in damage to buildings and infrastructure. The most affected buildings were older and cultural heritage buildings (built before 1963) in the old city centre with significant damage extent in the epicentral zone (southeastern foothills of Medvednica Mt.). This study presents site response analysis on the realistic site profiles from the epicentre towards the accelerometric stations QUHS and QARH and comparison with strong motion data recorded during the Zagreb 2020 earthquake. Semi-empirical estimation of the ground motion amplification (i.e., peak ground acceleration at surface) showed that modelled and recorded values are comparable. Moreover, we present 2D model of peak ground acceleration at surface (PGAsurf ) variation for the superimposed site profile from the epicentre towards two accelerometric stations. Ground motion amplification for the Zagreb ML 5.5 earthquake scenario showed that PGAsurf is larger by a factor of 2 than the bedrock value (approx. 0.35 g in the epicentre and 0.20 g on the 12 km distant accelerometric station). This study is a contribution to better understanding of the Zagreb ML 5.5 earthquake effects and significance of local site effects in the damage extent, something that combined with older and heritage buildings resulted in high economic consequences. Therefore, it is important that site-specific ground motion simulation and seismic microzonation of the Zagreb continues with installation of an accelerometric array. This is very important for earthquake retrofitting and resilience of the low, mid- and high-rise buildings with particular care of cultural and historical buildings as well for the further urban planning.","PeriodicalId":50419,"journal":{"name":"Geofizika","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42874764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GeofizikaPub Date : 2020-12-23DOI: 10.15233/gfz.2020.37.7
Fan Luo, Xin Tao, Guangming Fu, Chong Zhang, Kun Zhang, Jiayong Yan
{"title":"Usporedba različitih pristupa Bouguer-ove redukcije na temelju satelitskih gravimetrijskih podataka","authors":"Fan Luo, Xin Tao, Guangming Fu, Chong Zhang, Kun Zhang, Jiayong Yan","doi":"10.15233/gfz.2020.37.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15233/gfz.2020.37.7","url":null,"abstract":"Satellite gravity data are widely used in the field of geophysics to study deep structures at the regional and global scales. These data comprise free-air gravity anomaly data, which usually need to be corrected to a Bouguer gravity anomaly for practical application. Bouguer reduction approaches can be divided into two methods based on the coordinate system: the spherical coordinates method (SBG) and the Cartesian coordinates method; the latter is further divided into the CEBG and CBG methods, which do and do not include the Earth’s curvature correction. In this paper, free-air gravity anomaly data from the eastern Tibetan Plateau and its adjacent areas were used as the basic data to compare the CBG, CEBG, and SBG Bouguer gravity correction methods. The comparison of these three Bouguer gravity correction methods shows that the effect of the Earth’s curvature on the gravitational effect increases with increasing elevation in the study area. We want to understand the inversion accuracy for the data obtained by different Bouguer gravity reduction approaches. The depth distributions of the Moho were obtained by the interface inversion of the Bouguer gravity anomalies obtained by the CBG, CEBG, and SBG, and active seismic profiles were used as references for comparison and evaluation. The results show that the depths of the Moho obtained by the SBG inversion are more consistent with the measured seismic profile depths. Therefore, the SBG method is recommended as the most realistic approach in the process of global or regional research employing gravity data.","PeriodicalId":50419,"journal":{"name":"Geofizika","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41709140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GeofizikaPub Date : 2020-12-23DOI: 10.15233/gfz.2020.37.6
A. Eshaghzadeh, S. S. Sahebari
{"title":"Multivariable teaching-learning-based optimization (MTLBO) algorithm for estimating the structural parameters of the buried mass by magnetic data","authors":"A. Eshaghzadeh, S. S. Sahebari","doi":"10.15233/gfz.2020.37.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15233/gfz.2020.37.6","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a nature-based algorithm, titled multivariable teaching-learning-based optimization (MTLBO) algorithm. MTLBO algorithm during an iterative process can estimates the best values of the buried structure (model) parameters in a multi-objective problem. The algorithm works in two computational phases: the teacher phase and the learner phase. The major purpose of the MTLBO algorithm is to modify the value of the learners and thus, improving the value of the model parameters which leads to the optimal solution. The variables of each learner (model) are the depth (z), amplitude coefficient (k), shape factor (q), angle of effective magnetization (θ) and axis location (x0) parameters. We employ MTLBO method for the magnetic anomalies caused by the buried structures with a simple geometric shape such as sphere and horizontal cylinder. The efficiency of the MTLBO is also studied by noise corruption synthetic data, as the acceptable results were obtained. We have applied the MTLBO for the interpretation of the four magnetic anomaly profiles from Iran, Brazil and India.","PeriodicalId":50419,"journal":{"name":"Geofizika","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44573592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GeofizikaPub Date : 2020-12-23DOI: 10.15233/gfz.2020.37.9
Vahdettin Demir, Aslı Keskin
{"title":"Obtaining the Manning roughness with terrestrialremote sensing technique and flood modeling using FLO-2D","authors":"Vahdettin Demir, Aslı Keskin","doi":"10.15233/gfz.2020.37.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15233/gfz.2020.37.9","url":null,"abstract":"Determining the Manning roughness coefficients is one of the most important steps in flood modeling. The roughness coefficients cause differences in flood areas, water levels, and velocities in the process of modeling. This study aims to determine both the Manning roughness coefficient in the river sections and outside of the river regions by using the Cowan method and remote sensing technique in the flood modeling. In the flood modeling, FLO-2D Pro program which can simulate flood propagation in two dimensions was utilized. Mert River in Samsun province located in the northern part of Turkey was chosen as the study area. Samples taken from the river were subjected to sieve analysis, the types of constituent material were determined according to the median diameters and the roughness coefficients were obtained using the Cowan method. For regions outside of the river were applied the maximum likelihood method being one of the controlled classification methods. Manning roughness values were assigned the classified image sections. Remote sensing techniques were meticulously employed to achieve time management in areas outside the river and a new approach was proposed in the Manning assessment of flood areas to ensure uniformity in the study area. In the classification made using the maximum likelihood method, the overall classification accuracy was 92.9% and the kappa ratio “κ” was 90.64%. The results were calibrated with the last hazardous flood images in 2012 and HEC-RAS 2D program, another flood modeling program.","PeriodicalId":50419,"journal":{"name":"Geofizika","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45381515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GeofizikaPub Date : 2020-12-23DOI: 10.15233/gfz.2020.37.8
Utku Zeybekoğlu, Aslı Keskin
{"title":"Defining rainfall intensity clusters in Turkey by using the fuzzy c-means algorithm","authors":"Utku Zeybekoğlu, Aslı Keskin","doi":"10.15233/gfz.2020.37.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15233/gfz.2020.37.8","url":null,"abstract":"Turkey has seven traditionally accepted climatic zones that are defined primarily by maritime and topographic influences. Across these zones, the annual amount of rainfall, including its intensity and its seasonal distribution, vary considerably. These variations, which impact on both urban and rural communities, including the occurrence of water shortages and flash flooding events, are increasing in both frequency and magnitude due to global warming and climate change. Several types of climate occur in Turkey where climate zones have been defined with various methodologies. To better understand rainfall intensity patterns across Turkey, this study used the Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) algorithm to define their spatial distribution. In the first stage, the annual maximum rainfall intensity records for periods ranging from 30 to 78 years were obtained from 95 stations operated by the Turkish State Meteorological Service, and the longitude, latitude and altitude data for the stations were compiled for cluster analysis. Secondly, all rainfall intensities and geographical values were normalized, and in the third stage, the FCM algorithm was applied. The comparison of annual maximum rainfall intensities revealed five clusters. Four clusters were identified as discrete zones and one was identified as a transitional zone. Weather stations located in different geographical regions sometimes fell into the same clusters. In other words, rainfall events of similar intensity can occur in different climatic zones. This study, which brought a different perspective to clustering studies, showed that rainfall intensity values can be successfully analyzed at a national scale with the FCM technique.","PeriodicalId":50419,"journal":{"name":"Geofizika","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44563974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GeofizikaPub Date : 2020-12-23DOI: 10.15233/gfz.2020.37.10
M. Herak
{"title":"Conversion between the local magnitude (ML) and the moment magnitude (Mw) for earthquakes in the Croatian Earthquake Catalogue","authors":"M. Herak","doi":"10.15233/gfz.2020.37.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15233/gfz.2020.37.10","url":null,"abstract":"Based on 153 earthquakes (1959–2020) listed in the Croatian Earthquake Catalogue, a conversion relation was obtained between the local magnitude ML,CR and the corresponding moment magnitude Mw as reported by the global and regional agencies. As errors were present in both variables the York regression was used. The best fit line is given by: MwL = (–0.106 ± 0.122) + (1.002 ± 0.027) ML,CR (coefficient of determination R2 = 0.90). The earthquakes considered occurred in Croatia and the neighbouring regions, and their local magnitudes ML,CR ranged between 3.5 and 6.5. Residual analysis suggests that an artificial positive magnitude shift of up to 0.3 magnitude units may have occurred in the early 1980s, when Wiechert mechanical seismographs were replaced by the instruments with velocity proportional recordings without proper recalibration of the magnitude formula. The slope of the regression close to 1.0 indicates that on the average the faults’ aspect ratio (width/length) is about 1/2.","PeriodicalId":50419,"journal":{"name":"Geofizika","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43753442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GeofizikaPub Date : 2020-12-23DOI: 10.15233/gfz.2020.37.11
Z. Klaic, Karmen Babić, T. Mareković
{"title":"Internal seiches in a karstic mesotrophic lake (Prošće, Plitvice Lakes, Croatia)","authors":"Z. Klaic, Karmen Babić, T. Mareković","doi":"10.15233/gfz.2020.37.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15233/gfz.2020.37.11","url":null,"abstract":"A lake temperature experiment was performed at the Prošće, Plitvice Lakes, Croatia during a 4-month observational period (6 July–4 November, 2019) to investigate the occurrence and characteristics of internal seiches in the lake. Two-minute mean lake temperatures were measured at a single lake point at fifteen depths ranging from 0.2 to 27 m. Analysis of these data provided insight into the previously unknown and rather complex Prošće Lake seiching. Power spectral densities (PSDs) and magnitude-squared coherences (γ2), together with corresponding cross-spectrum phases that were obtained from the hourly mean lake temperature, air pressure and wind speed data, suggested the presence of three vertical modes of an internal seiche. The first mode (V1H1, period of 6.09 h) corresponds to free baroclinic oscillations; the second mode (V2H1, period of 11.64 h) and the third mode (V3H1, period of 25.60 h) are associated with forced baroclinic oscillations of the lake interior. Excitation of the higher vertical modes is attributed to the influence of dense tributary water.\u0000Due to this water influence, vertical temperature gradients in the lake interior were relatively weak; consequently, a single thick metalimnion and/or two metalimnetic layers were established, which resulted in the presence of the V2H1 and V3H1 modes, respectively. Additionally, due to the influence of tributary water, the lake did not attain the typical stratification that is characterized by hypolimnetic temperatures of ≈ 4°C. Instead, during the entire observational period, the hypolimnetic temperatures were consistently above 7.6 °C.","PeriodicalId":50419,"journal":{"name":"Geofizika","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44528774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GeofizikaPub Date : 2020-12-23DOI: 10.15233/gfz.2020.37.5
Md. Enamul Huq, M. Rahman, A. Mamun, M. Rana, A. A. Dughairi, Xiaoyi Longg, Akib Javed, Nayyer Saleem, Md Nazirul Islam Sarker, M. Hossain, A. Shoeb, O. Altan, Q. Cheng
{"title":"Assessing vulnerability for inhabitants of Dhaka City considering flood-hazard exposure","authors":"Md. Enamul Huq, M. Rahman, A. Mamun, M. Rana, A. A. Dughairi, Xiaoyi Longg, Akib Javed, Nayyer Saleem, Md Nazirul Islam Sarker, M. Hossain, A. Shoeb, O. Altan, Q. Cheng","doi":"10.15233/gfz.2020.37.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15233/gfz.2020.37.5","url":null,"abstract":"Global flood hazard is gradually increasing. Though it is impossible to avoid them, losses and damage of hazards (e.g., floods, cyclones, and earthquakes) could be efficiently reduced by reducing household vulnerability with appropriate measures. This study aims to quantitatively measure the household vulnerability of flood hazards as a mitigation tool. It also proposed a unique approach to quantify flood-hazard household vulnerability, and shows its application in the flood prone city of Dhaka as an example case. Data were collected from both slum and non-slum areas to cover the entire urban habitat, and to compare their level of flood vulnerability. A total of 300 households were surveyed by structured questionnaire on the basis of five factors (economic, social, environmental, structural, and institutional) of flood vulnerability. The analytical hierarchy process (AHP) was applied to measure individual household vulnerability scores by using the relative weightage of variables and indicators with proper standardisation. Analytical results demonstrated that 63.06% slum and 20.02% non-slum households were highly vulnerable to floods. In addition, this paper determined and assessed responsible factors for household flood vulnerability in Dhaka. For structural vulnerability, results exhibited that 82% of slum households were highly vulnerable, and 95.3% of non-slum households were moderately vulnerable. Socially, 67.3% of slum and 78.7% of non-slum households were moderately and low-vulnerable. The majority of slum and non-slum households (84% and 59.3%, respectively) showed high and moderate vulnerability with respect to economic vulnerability. Moreover, 69.3% of slum and 65.3% of nonslum household institutional vulnerability levels were high. Of slum inhabitants, 63.3% were environmentally at high risk, and 78% of non-slum habitats were in the low-vulnerability category. However, as an effective tool to measure location-specific vulnerability, it is applicable for the measuring vulnerability of other cities in the world with proper customisation. On the basis of this study, future research could be conducted with more factors, variables, and indicators of human vulnerability to natural or artificial hazards/disasters. Future work may provide a better reflection of the vulnerability status of single/multiple hazard(s)/disaster(s).","PeriodicalId":50419,"journal":{"name":"Geofizika","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46131332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}