The third explosion seismic observation, which succeeded to the last two observations of Oct. 25, 1950 and Dec. 27, 1951 were carried out July 25, 1952 in North-Eastern Japan. In this experiment 5.5 tons of carlit were exploded at Isibuti adjacent to the site of the preceding two explosions for engineering purposes. In this case the amount of explosives was not sufficient that the accuracies of the arrival times observed at distant stations of the first motion were poorer than in the cases of the last two explosions. The arrival time of every phase is shown in Table 2 and the travel-time curves are shown in Fig. 2. The travel times at the observation stations in the southern direction lies on three different straight lines which are given by the following equations,
t′
3=12h 05m+(-0.06±0.06)sec.+(0.1673±0.0003)see.Δ
v′
3=5.98±0.01km/sec.
t′
4=12h 05m+(3.7±0.3)sec.+(0.139±0.002)sec.Δ
v′
4=7.17±0.07km/sec.
t′
5=12h 05m+(1.9±0.3)sec.+(0.279±0.001)sec.
v′
5=3.58±0.002km/sec.
(Δ being measured in kilometers.)
On the other hand, in the western direction, the equations are obtained as follows,
t3″=12h 05m+(0.00±0.05)sec.+(0.172±0.001)sec.Δ
v&
3Prime;=5.81±0.03km/sec.
t5″=12h 05m+(1.03±0.4)sec.+(0.287±0.009)sec.Δ
v″
5=3.5±0.2km/sec.
The velocity of seismic waves “
v3” in the western direction is smaller than “
v3′” of the southern direction. In the case of the second explosion-seismic observation the velocity “
v” of the same layer in the eastern direction was larger than “
v3′” of the southern direction. If we assume the structure shown in Fig. 3, the explanation to this will be that the lower layer, of which velocity is 5.9km/sec, is overlaid by the soft layer of 2.56km/sec having the interface that dips 38' to the vest.
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