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Minimum Magnitude of Completeness for Earthquake Catalogues of Different Periods in Shanxi Region

WANG Xia, SONG Mei-qin, LI Li, LUO Yong   

  1. Earthquake Administration of Shanxi Province, Taiyuan 030021, China
  • Published:2020-07-14

Abstract: The minimum magnitude of completeness (MC) in earthquake catalogues, which reflects the network monitoring capability, plays an important role in studying seismicity and assessing seismic hazards. Considering the fact that Shanxi Seismic Network was established in different periods, the paper divided it into 4 periods. Based on the 1970—2012 earthquake catalogues in Shanxi region, we analyzed temporal variation of the minimum magnitude of completeness for earthquake catalogue by using the magnitude-order number, the maximum curvature (MAXC) and the goodness-of-fit test (GFT) methods. The results showed that the minimum magnitude was gradually lowered with the upgrading of seismic network from 1970, and MC could reach as low as ML0.9 after the “Tenth Five-Year Plan”, which indicated that the monitoring capability had been significantly improved.

Key words: Minimum magnitude of completeness, Seismic network, Seismic monitoring capability, Shanxi Region

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