{"title":"A Catalogue of Historical and Instrumentally-Recorded Ms ≥ 7 Earthquakes in Taiwan","authors":"Jeen-Hwa Wang","doi":"10.36956/eps.v3i2.1061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36956/eps.v3i2.1061","url":null,"abstract":"A catalogue of forty-nine instrumentally-recorded earthquakes with magnitudes ≥ 7 in Taiwan from 1906 to date is compiled from regional and international catalogues and literature. Included also are seven historical earthquakes that occurred from 1792 to 1867. The earthquake magnitude is the surface-wave magnitude, Ms. The moment magnitude, Mw, is also evaluated either from Ms or obtained from related documents. Except for one event, Mw is smaller than or equal to Ms. There are the 'doublets', 'triplets', and ‘quadruplets’ in these earthquakes. The spatial distribution of epicenters shows that most of the events occurred in offshore eastern Taiwan and only a few inland events happened in western Taiwan. The shortest inter-occurrence time between two consecutive events is less than 1 day; while the longest one is 5742 days between No. 47 event and No. 48 event. The inter-occurrence time somewhat increases with time. The time series of earthquakes shows irregular recurrence behavior with aperiodicity, fractality, and a weak memory effect. The damage produced by earthquakes is much higher from inland events (mainly in western Taiwan) than from offshore ones.","PeriodicalId":511557,"journal":{"name":"Earth and Planetary Science","volume":"12 16","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141698659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"2.13 Ga Lawsonite/Barroisite-Bearing E-Morb Signature Metagabbro Associated with Spinel Metaperidotite from Itaguara (São Francisco Craton, Brazil): Oldest Blueschist-Facies Fragment of Oceanic Moho?","authors":"Alexandre De Oliveira Chaves","doi":"10.36956/eps.v3i2.1068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36956/eps.v3i2.1068","url":null,"abstract":"In close association with Paleoproterozoic retroeclogite and accretionary prism-related mica-quartz schist, a 2.13 Ga (metamorphic titanite U-Pb age) lawsonite/barroisite-bearing E-MORB signature metagabbro associated with spinel metaperidotite is found in the Itaguara Sequence from southern São Francisco craton, Brazil. Petrography and pressure-temperature equilibrium phase diagrams suggest that the metagabbro experienced blueschist-facies metamorphism, attaining peak metamorphic conditions at ~16 kbar and ~450 °C during subduction. The retrograde metamorphic path crossed epidote amphibolite-facies, in which the mineral assemblage found in metaperidotite (olivine, clinopyroxene, spinel, serpentine, chlorite, talc, and tremolite) was stable during a ca. 2.1 Ga continental collision-related exhumation that occurred between the Archean Campo Belo/Bonfim and Divinópolis complexes. This geological framework suggests that the metagabbro and adjacent spinel metaperidotite represent a subducted and exhumed blueschist-facies fragment of a Paleoproterozoic oceanic Mohorovičić (Moho) discontinuity, thus establishing the Itaguara metagabbro as the oldest-known occurrence of retrogressed blueschist and providing evidence for the activity of the modern-style plate tectonics more than 2 Gyr ago.","PeriodicalId":511557,"journal":{"name":"Earth and Planetary Science","volume":"13 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141338969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Characteristics of Multiplanetary Systems with One Host Star","authors":"Elza Buslaeva, Elena Belenkaya","doi":"10.36956/eps.v3i2.1025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36956/eps.v3i2.1025","url":null,"abstract":"The characteristics of 100 multiplanetary systems with single central stars of different spectral classes were examined. The data for these systems were taken from the NASA Exoplanet Archive. Among the systems, those were selected for which the exoplanet mass and radius were simultaneously known. For 293 planets from these systems masses, radii, orbital radii, orbital periods, and types of exoplanets were analyzed. It occurred that the rarest type in such systems were terrestrial planets and after them the gas giants. Most of the exoplanets belonged to the type of super-earths. The distribution of the number of planets in a system showed that systems with many exoplanets are less common than those with a smaller number. The system with the largest number of exoplanets in this sample is TRAPPIST-1 (7 planets systems). The properties of exoplanets in multiplanetary systems with one host star in terms of characteristics, orbital sizes, and number of planets, are investigated and compared with the Solar system. It turned out that the Solar system is rather an exception to the considered extrasolar multiplanetary systems.","PeriodicalId":511557,"journal":{"name":"Earth and Planetary Science","volume":" 19","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141375788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exciting Planetary Exploration, Planetary Science but also Earth Sciences","authors":"Albert Galy","doi":"10.36956/eps.v3i1.1095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36956/eps.v3i1.1095","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":511557,"journal":{"name":"Earth and Planetary Science","volume":"2 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141010834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jing Sun, Jin Liu, Fuyang Liu, Eugene Sklyarov, Ross Mitchell
{"title":"Discovery of the Naturally Occurring Pure CaTiO3 Cubic Perovskite from Tazheran Massif","authors":"Jing Sun, Jin Liu, Fuyang Liu, Eugene Sklyarov, Ross Mitchell","doi":"10.36956/eps.v3i1.991","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36956/eps.v3i1.991","url":null,"abstract":"As the parent compound of the perovskite-structured family and an analogue of davemaoite CaSiO3 in Earth’s lower mantle, CaTiO3 perovskite is widely used in electronic ceramic materials, immobilizing radioactive waste, and geosciences. Here we report the discovery of a natural pure CaTiO3 perovskite-C in calc-silicate veins in brucite marble in the Tazheran Massif, Russia. The mean composition of perovskite-C is 97 wt% total CaO and TiO2, and minor impurities of Na, Al, and Zr, yielding the chemical formula CaTi0.97Al0.01Na0.01Zr0.01O3. The cubic crystal structure—Pm3m, Z = 1: a = 3.8301 Å, V = 56.19 (2) Å3 (ρ = 4.019 g/cm3) has been refined to R1 = 0.0451. Compared with the cubic perovskite discovered in Israel, the cubic perovskite discovered in this study is very pure in Ca and Ti. The naturally occurring perovskite-C from Tazheran implies that the host skarn might have experienced high-temperature (> 1247–1374 °C) metamorphism and/or metasomatism at an early stage. Moreover, the discovery of natural perovskite-C also draws attention to considering crystal-structure-related matrix effects in the future of in situ U-Pb geochronology, especially using Tazh international perovskite standards.","PeriodicalId":511557,"journal":{"name":"Earth and Planetary Science","volume":"40 16","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140657000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bouba Saidou, Apollinaire Bouba, Valentin Oyoa, K. Njeudjang, J. Kamguia, Alidou Mohamadou
{"title":"Crustal Structures Inferred from Combined Terrestrial and Earth Gravity Data beneath the Babouri-Figuil and Mayo Oulo-Lere Basins, North Cameroon and South Chad","authors":"Bouba Saidou, Apollinaire Bouba, Valentin Oyoa, K. Njeudjang, J. Kamguia, Alidou Mohamadou","doi":"10.36956/eps.v3i1.928","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36956/eps.v3i1.928","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, the study of the crustal structure of the Babouri-Figuil and Mayo Oulo-Lere sedimentary basins was carried out through the interpretation of gravity data. These data were obtained by combining the terrestrial gravity data obtained from the Earth Gravitational Model 2008. The analysis of the terrestrial Bouguer anomaly maps reveals both negative and positive anomalies. Negative anomalies, i.e., low-density signatures, are interpreted as specific rock types on the basis of the geological knowledge of the region while the positive anomalies are attributed to basaltic rocks underlying a generally granitic environment. The empirical method was used to distinguish anomalies due to deep structures from those due to near-surface structures. This method testifies that the residual map of degree 4 is appropriate. Six profiles are drawn on this residual Bouguer anomaly map and are interpreted using spectral analysis and 2D modeling methods. The results indicate that the mean depths of mass sources at the near-surface of the Babouri-Figuil and Mayo Oulo-Lere sedimentary basins are located at 1.50 km and 1.55 km, respectively. Moreover, the Babouri-Figuil Basin is constituted of two formations while the Mayo Oulo-Lere Basin exhibits three distinct formations. These models also help clarify the geological structure of the study area as well as the thicknesses of the sedimentary basins.","PeriodicalId":511557,"journal":{"name":"Earth and Planetary Science","volume":"133 45","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140251386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impact of Earth Radiation Pressure Physical Analytical Model on Satellite Laser Ranging Orbit Determination","authors":"Hao Yang, Xiaoya Wang, Yabo Li","doi":"10.36956/eps.v3i1.967","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36956/eps.v3i1.967","url":null,"abstract":"SLR (Satellite Laser Ranging) is a kind of important space geodesy technique for the establishment of a Terrestrial Reference Frame (TRF) and determination of EOP (Earth Orientation Parameters). It determines the origin and scale factor of TRF. The accuracy of future TRF is 1 mm. This requires improving the SLR data processing accuracy and importing higher accuracy SLR satellite data. The Earth Radiation Pressure (ERP) is an important perturbation force for SLR satellites. The traditional Earth radiation pressure model for SLR satellites is the simple Cannon Ball model. This paper establishes the Box-Wing physical Earth radiation pressure model for SLR satellites and takes Lageos-1 as an example to evaluate the physical analytical model. The Lageos-1 is divided into two blocks: metal shell and corner reflectors. The area and optical characteristics of each block are analyzed according to the requirements of three kinds of Earth albedo and emissivity models of point source, experience and grid models. The results show that after importing the physical analytical Earth radiation pressure model, the empirical force acceleration in the T direction is significantly reduced and the orbit overlap arc precision is about 3 mm smaller than that of the original model. The orbit prediction results show that the prediction accuracy of the new Earth radiation pressure model has generally improved significantly. The maximum improvement percentage of the physical analytical model is 12%, 16%, 28% and 25% respectively in the prediction arc length of 1 day, 3 days, 5 days and 7 days. The physical grid model performs the best with the increase of prediction arc length.","PeriodicalId":511557,"journal":{"name":"Earth and Planetary Science","volume":"206 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140491512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}