The precursory phenomena before the Karymskii seismovolcanic crisis in parameters of seismicity in a wide range of energy

Abstract

We report extensive anomalies identified in seismicity parameters at different energy levels which were observed during the precursory process of the Karymskii seismovolcanic crisis of January 1–2, 1996. The seismicity of different energies includes earthquakes contained in the Kamchatka regional catalog and seismic noise (amplitudes of 10−9–10−12 m, frequencies of a few tens of hertz), which is a manifestation of the seismic process in the lowest energy range. The parameters of background seismicity are considered in retrospect using techniques for analyzing the dynamics of the seismic process: RTL and the Z function. Microseismicity is examined using these authors’ own method based on monitoring the response of high frequency seismic noise to tidal excitation