Water drainage from Kushiro Coal Mine decreased on the day of all M ≥ 7.5 earthquakes and increased thereafter

2018/11/01 by Y. Fujii, Yoshihisa Ichihara, Hiroyuki Matsumoto +3 · 1 citation
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Engineering · Decision Sciences · #Earthquake Detection and Analysis #Geophysical Methods and Applications #Knowledge Management and Technology

paper · pdf · doi:10.1038/s41598-018-34931-5

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Abstract

The amount of water drainage from Kushiro Coal Mine in Hokkaido, Japan decreased on the day of all M ≥ 7.5 earthquakes with epicenters within 300 km of the mine during the monitoring period and increased after these earthquakes. This is a valuable finding which would give us a clue to understand pre- and post-seismic rockmass behaviors and contribute for progress in earthquake prediction in future.

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• Kushiro Coal Mine [wikipedia]

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