Long term continuous radon monitoring in a seismically active area
Abstract
We present the results of a long term, continuous radon monitoring experiment started in April 2010 in a seismically active area, affected during the 2010-2013 data acquisition time window by an intense micro seismic activity and by several small seismic events. We employed both correlation and cross-correlation analyses in order to investigate possible relationship existing between the collected radon data, seismic events and meteorological parameters. Our results do not support the feasibility of a robust one-to-one association between the small magnitude earthquakes characterizing the local seismic activity and single radon measurement anomalies, but evidence significant correlation patterns between the spatio-temporal variations of seismic moment release and soil radon emanations, the latter being anyway dominantly modulated by meteorological parameters variations.
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@article{arxiv.1510.00528,
title = {Long term continuous radon monitoring in a seismically active area},
author = {A. Piersanti and V. Cannelli and G. Galli},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.00528},
year = {2015}
}