@article{ScherbaumKruegerWeber1997, author = {Scherbaum, Frank and Kr{\"u}ger, Frank and Weber, Michael H.}, title = {Double beam imaging : mapping lower mantle heterogeneities using combinations of source and receiver arrays}, year = {1997}, language = {en} } @article{BlaserKruegerOhrnbergeretal.2010, author = {Blaser, Lilian and Kr{\"u}ger, Frank and Ohrnberger, Matthias and Scherbaum, Frank}, title = {Scaling relations of earthquake source parameter estimates with special focus on subduction environment}, issn = {0037-1106}, doi = {10.1785/0120100111}, year = {2010}, abstract = {Earthquake rupture length and width estimates are in demand in many seismological applications. Earthquake magnitude estimates are often available, whereas the geometrical extensions of the rupture fault mostly are lacking. Therefore, scaling relations are needed to derive length and width from magnitude. Most frequently used are the relationships of Wells and Coppersmith (1994) derived on the basis of a large dataset including all slip types with the exception of thrust faulting events in subduction environments. However, there are many applications dealing with earthquakes in subduction zones because of their high seismic and tsunamigenic potential. There are no well-established scaling relations for moment magnitude and length/width for subduction events. Within this study, we compiled a large database of source parameter estimates of 283 earthquakes. All focal mechanisms are represented, but special focus is set on (large) subduction zone events, in particular. Scaling relations were fitted with linear least-square as well as orthogonal regression and analyzed regarding the difference between continental and subduction zone/oceanic relationships. Additionally, the effect of technical progress in earthquake parameter estimation on scaling relations was tested as well as the influence of different fault mechanisms. For a given moment magnitude we found shorter but wider rupture areas of thrust events compared to Wells and Coppersmith (1994). The thrust event relationships for pure continental and pure subduction zone rupture areas were found to be almost identical. The scaling relations differ significantly for slip types. The exclusion of events prior to 1964 when the worldwide standard seismic network was established resulted in a remarkable effect on strike-slip scaling relations: the data do not show any saturation of rupture width of strike- slip earthquakes. Generally, rupture area seems to scale with mean slip independent of magnitude. The aspect ratio L/W, however, depends on moment and differs for each slip type.}, language = {en} } @article{BlaserOhrnbergerKruegeretal.2012, author = {Blaser, Lilian and Ohrnberger, Matthias and Kr{\"u}ger, Frank and Scherbaum, Frank}, title = {Probabilistic tsunami threat assessment of 10 recent earthquakes offshore Sumatra}, series = {Geophysical journal international}, volume = {188}, journal = {Geophysical journal international}, number = {3}, publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell}, address = {Malden}, issn = {0956-540X}, doi = {10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05324.x}, pages = {1273 -- 1284}, year = {2012}, abstract = {Tsunami early warning (TEW) is a challenging task as a decision has to be made within few minutes on the basis of incomplete and error-prone data. Deterministic warning systems have difficulties in integrating and quantifying the intrinsic uncertainties. In contrast, probabilistic approaches provide a framework that handles uncertainties in a natural way. Recently, we have proposed a method using Bayesian networks (BNs) that takes into account the uncertainties of seismic source parameter estimates in TEW. In this follow-up study, the method is applied to 10 recent large earthquakes offshore Sumatra and tested for its performance. We have evaluated both the general model performance given the best knowledge we have today about the source parameters of the 10 events and the corresponding response on seismic source information evaluated in real-time. We find that the resulting site-specific warning level probabilities represent well the available tsunami wave measurements and observations. Difficulties occur in the real-time tsunami assessment if the moment magnitude estimate is severely over- or underestimated. In general, the probabilistic analysis reveals a considerably large range of uncertainties in the near-field TEW. By quantifying the uncertainties the BN analysis provides important additional information to a decision maker in a warning centre to deal with the complexity in TEW and to reason under uncertainty.}, language = {en} } @misc{ZaliReinKruegeretal.2023, author = {Zali, Zahra and Rein, Teresa and Kr{\"u}ger, Frank and Ohrnberger, Matthias and Scherbaum, Frank}, title = {Ocean bottom seismometer (OBS) noise reduction from horizontal and vertical components using harmonic-percussive separation algorithms}, series = {Zweitver{\"o}ffentlichungen der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe}, journal = {Zweitver{\"o}ffentlichungen der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe}, number = {1320}, issn = {1866-8372}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-58882}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-588828}, pages = {15}, year = {2023}, abstract = {Records from ocean bottom seismometers (OBSs) are highly contaminated by noise, which is much stronger compared to data from most land stations, especially on the horizontal components. As a consequence, the high energy of the oceanic noise at frequencies below 1 Hz considerably complicates the analysis of the teleseismic earthquake signals recorded by OBSs. Previous studies suggested different approaches to remove low-frequency noises from OBS recordings but mainly focused on the vertical component. The records of horizontal components, which are crucial for the application of many methods in passive seismological analysis of body and surface waves, could not be much improved in the teleseismic frequency band. Here we introduce a noise reduction method, which is derived from the harmonic-percussive separation algorithms used in Zali et al. (2021), in order to separate long-lasting narrowband signals from broadband transients in the OBS signal. This leads to significant noise reduction of OBS records on both the vertical and horizontal components and increases the earthquake signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) without distortion of the broadband earthquake waveforms. This is demonstrated through tests with synthetic data. Both SNR and cross-correlation coefficients showed significant improvements for different realistic noise realizations. The application of denoised signals in surface wave analysis and receiver functions is discussed through tests with synthetic and real data.}, language = {en} } @article{ZaliReinKruegeretal.2023, author = {Zali, Zahra and Rein, Teresa and Kr{\"u}ger, Frank and Ohrnberger, Matthias and Scherbaum, Frank}, title = {Ocean bottom seismometer (OBS) noise reduction from horizontal and vertical components using harmonic-percussive separation algorithms}, series = {Solid earth}, volume = {14}, journal = {Solid earth}, number = {2}, publisher = {Coepernicus Publ.}, address = {G{\"o}ttingen}, issn = {1869-9529}, doi = {10.5194/se-14-181-2023}, pages = {181 -- 195}, year = {2023}, abstract = {Records from ocean bottom seismometers (OBSs) are highly contaminated by noise, which is much stronger compared to data from most land stations, especially on the horizontal components. As a consequence, the high energy of the oceanic noise at frequencies below 1 Hz considerably complicates the analysis of the teleseismic earthquake signals recorded by OBSs. Previous studies suggested different approaches to remove low-frequency noises from OBS recordings but mainly focused on the vertical component. The records of horizontal components, which are crucial for the application of many methods in passive seismological analysis of body and surface waves, could not be much improved in the teleseismic frequency band. Here we introduce a noise reduction method, which is derived from the harmonic-percussive separation algorithms used in Zali et al. (2021), in order to separate long-lasting narrowband signals from broadband transients in the OBS signal. This leads to significant noise reduction of OBS records on both the vertical and horizontal components and increases the earthquake signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) without distortion of the broadband earthquake waveforms. This is demonstrated through tests with synthetic data. Both SNR and cross-correlation coefficients showed significant improvements for different realistic noise realizations. The application of denoised signals in surface wave analysis and receiver functions is discussed through tests with synthetic and real data.}, language = {en} } @article{KruegerScherbaum2014, author = {Kr{\"u}ger, Frank and Scherbaum, Frank}, title = {The 29 September 1969, Ceres, South Africa, Earthquake: full waveform moment tensor inversion for point source and kinematic source parameters}, series = {Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America}, volume = {104}, journal = {Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America}, number = {1}, publisher = {Seismological Society of America}, address = {Albany}, issn = {0037-1106}, doi = {10.1785/0120130209}, pages = {576 -- 581}, year = {2014}, abstract = {The Ceres earthquake of 29 September 1969 is the largest known earthquake in southern Africa. Digitized analog recordings from Worldwide Standardized Seismographic Network stations (Powell and Fries, 1964) are used to retrieve the point source moment tensor and the most likely centroid depth of the event using full waveform modeling. A scalar seismic moment of 2.2-2.4 x 10(18) N center dot m corresponding to a moment magnitude of 6.2-6.3 is found. The analysis confirms the pure strike-slip mechanism previously determined from onset polarities by Green and Bloch (1971). Overall good agreement with the fault orientation previously estimated from local aftershock recordings is found. The centroid depth can be constrained to be less than 15 km. In a second analysis step, we use a higher order moment tensor based inversion scheme for simple extended rupture models to constrain the lateral fault dimensions. We find rupture propagated unilaterally for 4.7 s from east-southwest to west-northwest for about 17 km ( average rupture velocity of about 3: 1 km/s).}, language = {en} } @misc{RoesslerHiemerBachetal.2009, author = {R{\"o}ßler, Dirk and Hiemer, Stephan and Bach, Christoph and Delavaud, Elise and Kr{\"u}ger, Frank and Ohrnberger, Matthias and Sauer, David and Scherbaum, Frank and Vollmer, Daniel}, title = {Small-aperture seismic array monitors Vogtland earthquake swarm in 2008/09}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-29185}, year = {2009}, abstract = {The most recent intense earthquake swarm in the Vogtland lasted from 6 October 2008 until January 2009. Greatest magnitudes exceeded M3.5 several times in October making it the greatest swarm since 1985/86. In contrast to the swarms in 1985 and 2000, seismic moment release was concentrated near swarm onset. Focal area and temporal evolution are similar to the swarm in 2000. Work hypothysis: uprising upper-mantle fluids trigger swarm earthquakes at low stress level. To monitor the seismicity, the University of Potsdam operated a small aperture seismic array at 10 km epicentral distance between 18 October 2008 and 18 March 2009. Consisting of 12 seismic stations and 3 additional microphones, the array is capable of detecting earthquakes from larger to very low magnitudes (M<-1) as well as associated air waves. We use array techniques to determine properties of the incoming wavefield: noise, direct P and S waves, and converted phases.}, language = {en} } @article{SremcevicKrivovKruegeretal.2005, author = {Sremcevic, Miodrag and Krivov, Alexander V. and Kr{\"u}ger, Harald and Spahn, Frank}, title = {Impact-generated dust clouds around planetary satellites : model versus Galileo}, issn = {0032-0633}, year = {2005}, abstract = {This paper focuses on tenuous dust clouds of Jupiter's Galilean moons Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. In a companion paper (Sremcevic et al., Planet. Space Sci. 51 (2003) 455-471) an analytical model of impact-generated ejecta dust clouds surrounding planetary satellites has been developed. The main aim of the model is to predict the asymmetries in the dust clouds which may arise from the orbital motion of the parent body through a field of impactors. The Galileo dust detector data from flybys at Europa, Ganymede and Callisto are compatible with the model, assuming projectiles to be interplanetary micrometeoroids. The analysis of the data suggests that two interplanetary impactor populations are most likely the source of the measured dust clouds: impactors with isotropically distributed velocities and micrometeoroids in retrograde orbits. Other impactor populations, namely those originating in the Jovian system, or interplanetary projectiles with low orbital eccentricities and inclinations, or interstellar stream particles, can be ruled out by the statistical analysis of the data. The data analysis also suggests that the mean ejecta velocity angle to the normal at the satellite surface is around 30°, which is in agreement with laboratory studies of the hypervelocity impacts. © 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved}, language = {en} } @article{SramaAhrensAltobellietal.2004, author = {Srama, Ralf and Ahrens, Thomas J. and Altobelli, Nicolas and Auer, S. and Bradley, J. G. and Burton, M. and Dikarev, V. V. and Economou, T. and Fechtig, Hugo and G{\"o}rlich, M. and Grande, M. and Graps, Amara and Gr{\"u}n, Eberhard and Havnes, Ove and Helfert, Stefan and Horanyi, Mihaly and Igenbergs, E. and Jessberger, Elmar K. and Johnson, T. V. and Kempf, Sascha and Krivov, Alexander v. and Kr{\"u}ger, Harald and Mocker-Ahlreep, Anna and Moragas-Klostermeyer, Georg and Lamy, Philippe and Landgraf, Markus and Linkert, Dietmar and Linkert, G. and Lura, F. and McDonnell, J. A. M. and Moehlmann, Dirk and Morfill, Gregory E. and Muller, M. and Roy, M. and Schafer, G. and Schlotzhauer, G. and Schwehm, Gerhard H. and Spahn, Frank and St{\"u}big, M. and Svestka, Jiri and Tschernjawski, V}, title = {The Cassini Cosmic Dust Analyzer}, issn = {0038-6308}, year = {2004}, abstract = {The Cassini-Huygens Cosmic Dust Analyzer (CDA) is intended to provide direct observations of dust grains with masses between 10(-19) and 10(-9) kg in interplanetary space and in the jovian and saturnian systems, to investigate their physical, chemical and dynamical properties as functions of the distances to the Sun, to Jupiter and to Saturn and its satellites and rings, to study their interaction with the saturnian rings, satellites and magnetosphere. Chemical composition of interplanetary meteoroids will be compared with asteroidal and cometary dust, as well as with Saturn dust, ejecta from rings and satellites. Ring and satellites phenomena which might be effects of meteoroid impacts will be compared with the interplanetary dust environment. Electrical charges of particulate matter in the magnetosphere and its consequences will be studied, e.g. the effects of the ambient plasma and the magnetic held on the trajectories of dust particles as well as fragmentation of particles due to electrostatic disruption. The investigation will be performed with an instrument that measures the mass, composition, electric charge, speed, and flight direction of individual dust particles. It is a highly reliable and versatile instrument with a mass sensitivity 106 times higher than that of the Pioneer 10 and I I dust detectors which measured dust in the saturnian system. The Cosmic Dust Analyzer has significant inheritance from former space instrumentation developed for the VEGA, Giotto, Galileo, and Ulysses missions. It will reliably measure impacts from as low as I impact per month up to 104 impacts per second. The instrument weighs 17 kg and consumes 12 W, the integrated time-of-flight mass spectrometer has a mass resolution of up to 50. The nominal data transmission rate is 524 bits/s and varies between 50 and 4192 bps}, language = {en} } @article{KirvovWardinskiSpahnetal.2002, author = {Kirvov, Alexander V. and Wardinski, Ingo and Spahn, Frank and Kr{\"u}ger, Harald and Gr{\"u}n, Eberhard}, title = {Dust on the outskirts of the Jovian System}, year = {2002}, language = {en} }