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GEOFLUIDS
Volume 2020, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-HINDAWI
DOI: 10.1155/2020/2429165
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41674111]
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The seismotectonically induced changes in groundwater radon (Rn) are considered to be strong imputes for the surveillance of imminent major earthquakes. Groundwater facilitates the migration of soil gases as a result of tectonic stresses. In this regard, a radon time series is statistically analysed to identify the radon anomalies possibly induced by Wenchuan earthquake. The statistical analysis mainly involves the deterministic analysis of the Rn data and residual Rn analysis using a criterion (x) +/- 2 sigma of anomaly selection having a confidence interval of 95%. The deterministic analysis reveals that the Rn time series follows a persistent trend (0.5 <= H <= 1 which confirms the absence of a chaotic regime. On the other hand, the residual Rn shows a notable upsurge straddling the time of the Wenchuan earthquake in the form of pre- and post earthquake changes at monitoring stations having RE/RD <= 0.3. The residual Rn level passes the anomaly selection criterion (x) +/- 2 sigma and is declared as a tectonically induced Rn anomaly. Contrary to this, the response of distant monitoring stations (RE/RD>0.3) to this particular earthquake further validates the link between Rn and earthquake activity. In a nutshell, the present study highlights the potential implications of earthquake-induced radon anomalies for earthquake prediction research.
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