There are growing concerns that the recently implemented Earthquake Early Warning service is overestimating the rapidly provided earthquake magnitudes (M). As a result, the predicted damages unnecessarily activate earthquake protection systems for critical facilities and lifeline infrastructures that are far away. This study is conducted to improve the estimation accuracy of M by incorporating the observed S-wave seismograms in the near source region after removing the site effects of the seismograms in real time by filtering in the time domain. The ensemble of horizontal S-wave spectra from at least five seismograms without site effects is calculated and normalized to a hypocentric target distance (21.54 km) by using the distance attenuation model of Q(f)=348f0.52 and a cross-over distance of 50 km. The natural logarithmic mean of the S-wave ensemble spectra is then fitted to Brune’s source spectrum to obtain the best estimates for M and stress drop (SD) with the fitting weight of 1/standard deviation. The proposed methodology was tested on the 18 recent inland earthquakes in South Korea, and the condition of at least five records for the near-source region is sufficiently fulfilled at an epicentral distance of 30 km. The natural logarithmic standard deviation of the observed S-wave spectra of the ensemble was calculated to be 0.53 using records near the source for 1~10 Hz, compared to 0.42 using whole records. The result shows that the root-mean-square error of M and ln(SD) is approximately 0.17 and 0.6, respectively. This accuracy can provide a confidence interval of 0.4~2.3 of Peak Ground Acceleration values in the distant range.

본 연구는 최근 2005년 1월부터 2011년 3월까지 발생한 한반도 남서부지역(34˚N-36˚N, 126˚E-128˚E)의 지진 중 규모 2.0 이상의 22개 지진에 대한 단층운동의 해를 구하여 분석하였다. 본 연구를 통해 각 지진의 진앙을 재결정하고, 이를 기상청과 한국지질자원연구원의 진앙자료와 비교한 결과 대부분 0.05˚ 이내로 대체적으로 유사한 값을 보이나, 해안지역에서 관측망의 편중 혹은 부족으로 인해 약간 더 커진다. 진원깊이가 구해진 한국지질자원연구원의 진원깊이 자료와 비교하면 최대 12.7 km 이내에서 다양한 차이를 보인다. 대부분의 진앙은 지구조선에 인접하여 분포한다. 단층면 해는 P파 초동극성을 이용하는 방법과 SH파의 극성 및 SH/P 진폭비를 추가하는 방법으로 구한 결과 대부분 주향이동운동 혹은 역단층 성분이 포함된 주향이동단층 운동의 특징을 보인다. 주 응력장인 P축은 동북동-서남서 혹은 동서 방향이 우세하게 나타나고, 이는 전반적인 한반도의 응력장 분포와 잘 일치한다. 단층면해는 주로 'NNE-SSW와 WNW-ESE 방향' 또는 'NE-SW와 NW-SE 방향'의 단층면과 보조단층면을 보이는데, 이는 지표의 지구조선 방향과 전반적으로 잘 일치하는 경향을 보인다.

Chonan and Asan city have been a focal point due to rapid development as the first station for Express Railroad and key cities West Coast Development Region. Gokgyo stream adjacent to the cities plays an important role as a drainage channel for an agriculture and a discharger of urban storm water. Water quality of the stream has been deteriorating caused by pollution sources such as a untreated wastewater discharge and runoff from the watershed. In this study, we conducted 4 surveys in April, May, July, and September to understand the current state of water quality for the stream and to make it possibe to predict future water-quality variation for future development. The system runs on a personal computer under the windows enviroment and provides extensive graphics using graphic user interface(GUI) for user-friendly assessment. Using the pull-down menus provided by the GUI panel, the user is able to operate the system by pointing and clicking the icon to identify the state of water-quality at locations concerned. Furthermore, we developed an integrated watershed management system. The constructed system could be a useful tool as a decesion maker for pollution source control strategy.

Air quality modeling about coastal urban region such as Pusan shoud be consider shipping source emmited from ships anchoraging and running. It has been proved at our previous studies that the ratios of air pollutants emission amount in coastal area to inland are 12.2% for NO2 and 11.7% for SO2 and the air quality of coastal urban area consierably counts on ships. Also the dispersion pattern of the air pollutants followed local circulation system in this region. Therefore this study has been developed air quality model which can describe the formation, transport, transformation and deposition processes of air pollutants considering shipping source. Currently, restriction for emission amount of ships does not exist, so our study will be useful to set the emission standard and for devising air quality policy in coastal urban region.