@article{163cebd3c2d64f0bbcfd76d5f975bd7b,
title = "Seismicity variations prior to the 2016 ML 6.6 meinong, Taiwan earthquake",
abstract = "The 2016 ML 6.6 Meinong earthquake struck southern Taiwan and caused serious damage due to the strong ground shaking. Anomalous seismicity spatiotemporal signature changes were identified prior to the 2016 Meinong event. We investigate the seismicity rate changes associated with the 2016 Meinong mainshock by applying the region-time-length (RTL) algorithm. The temporal result reveals a long obvious seismic quiescence stage soon after the 2012 Wutai event lasting until the 2016 Meinong mainshock. The spatial pattern of different background period lengths all exhibit that the 2016 Meinong event occurred near the abnormal seismic quiescence patch. Our study shows that the spatiotemporal information of the seismicity change could be a useful indication for potential seismic-hazard assessment.",
keywords = "2016 meinong earthquake, Potential seismic-hazard assessment, Seismicity variation",
author = "Wen, {Yi Ying} and Chen, {Chien Chih}",
note = "Funding Information: The three moderate-sized events, the 2010 Jiashian, the 2012 Wutai and the 2016 Meinong earthquakes, occurred in a small region within 10 years and all caused some damage. Moderate-sized events occur frequently in Taiwan, with some originating from buried faults. We should therefore pay more attention to seismic hazard mitigation. Our results show that RTL analysis with different background seismicity lengths can help to examine the abnormal seismicity stage as well as the anomalous seismic quiescence area. This spa- Acknowledgements We thank editor Wen-Tzong Liang and two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments. We thank the Geophysical Database Management System (http://gdms.cwb.gov.tw/index.php ), developed by Central Weather Bureau (CWB) of Taiwan, and Broadband Array in Taiwan for Seismology (BATS) for providing seismic data. This research was supported by the Taiwan Earthquake Center (TEC) and funded through the Taiwan MOST grant MOST 105-2116-M-194-007. The TEC contribution number for this article is 00131.",
year = "2017",
month = oct,
doi = "10.3319/TAO.2016.12.05.01",
language = "???core.languages.en_GB???",
volume = "28",
pages = "739--744",
journal = "Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences",
issn = "1017-0839",
number = "5",
}