Radon measurements for earthquake prediction along the North Anatolian Fault Zone: a progress report

Harry Friedmann; Kayihan Aric; Rudolf Gutdeutsch

doi:10.1016/0040-1951(88)90047-9

Radon measurements for earthquake prediction along the North Anatolian Fault Zone: a progress report

Harry Friedmann, Kayihan Aric, Rudolf Gutdeutsch

Department of Meteorology and Geophysics

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Abstract

Radon (222Rn) concentration has been continuously measured since 1983 in groundwater at a spring and in subsurface soil gas at five sites along a 200km segment of the North Anatolian Fault Zone near Bolu, Turkey. The groundwater radon concentration showed a significant increase before the Biga earthquake of magnitude 5.7 on 5 July 1983 at an epicentral distance of 350km, and a long-term increase between March 1983 and April 1985. The soil-gas radon concentration showed large changes in 1985, apparently not meteorologically induced. The soil-gas and groundwater data at Bolu did not show any obvious correlation. -Authors

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	209-214
Number of pages	6
Journal	Tectonophysics
Volume	152
Issue number	3-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-1951(88)90047-9
Publication status	Published - 1988

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1030 Physics, Astronomy

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