A first near real-time seismology-based landquake monitoring system

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 7; no. 1; p. 43510
• Main Authors: Chao, Wei-An, Wu, Yih-Min, Zhao, Li, Chen, Hongey, Chen, Yue-Gau, Chang, Jui-Ming, Lin, Che-Min
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 02.03.2017; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 704/2151/2809; 704/2151/508; 704/4111; Emergency preparedness; Fitness; Gravity; Humanities and Social Sciences; Monitoring systems; multidisciplinary; Science; Seismology; Typhoons; Taiwan

Hazards from gravity-driven instabilities on hillslope (termed ‘landquake’ in this study) are an important problem facing us today. Rapid detection of landquake events is crucial for hazard mitigation and emergency response. Based on the real-time broadband data in Taiwan, we have developed a near r...