Soft sediment layers can significantly amplify seismic waves from earthquakes. Large dynamic strains can trigger a nonlinear response of shallow soils with low strength, which is characterized by a shift of resonance frequencies, ground motion deamplification, and in some cases, soil liquefaction. We investigate the response of marine sediments during earthquake ground motions recorded along a fiber‐optic cable offshore the Tohoku region, Japan, with distributed acoustic sensing (DAS). We compute AutoCorrelation Functions (ACFs) of the ground motions from 105 earthquakes in different frequency bands. We detect time delays in the ACF waveforms that are converted to relative velocity changes (
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We present a real-data test for offshore earthquake early warning (EEW) with distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) by transforming submarine fiber-optic cable into a dense seismic array. First, we constrain earthquake locations using the arrival-time information recorded by the DAS array. Second, with site effects along the cable calibrated using an independent earthquake, we estimate earthquake magnitudes directly from strain rate amplitudes by applying a scaling relation transferred from onshore DAS arrays. Our results indicate that using this single 50 km offshore DAS array can offer ∼3 s improvement in the alert time of EEW compared to onshore seismic stations. Furthermore, we simulate and demonstrate that multiple DAS arrays extending toward the trench placed along the coast can uniformly improve alert times along a subduction zone by more than 5 s.
more » « less- Award ID(s):
- 1848166
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10497456
- Publisher / Repository:
- SSA
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- The Seismic Record
- Volume:
- 3
- Issue:
- 4
- ISSN:
- 2694-4006
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 269 to 277
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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