著者

村岡 洋文 浅沼 宏 伊藤 久男

出版者

公益社団法人 東京地学協会

雑誌

地学雑誌 (ISSN:0022135X)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.122, no.2, pp.343-362, 2013-04-25 (Released:2013-05-31)

参考文献数

47

被引用文献数

6 6

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Current geothermal power generation from engineered geothermal system (EGS) technologies has two bottle-necks in practical use: one is that the recoverability of injected water is about 50% or less than that in fracture-dominant regions such as Japan, which inevitably requires replenishing large volumes of injected water throughout the power generation operation, and the other is that the injected water raises pore fluid pressures in crustal rocks, causing induced-earthquakes. This paper proposes a new power generation method, which has the potential to resolve these two bottle-necks using EGS technologies in ductile zones. With this method, an artificial brittle fracture reservoir system is completely surrounded by ductile zones at a temperature exceeding 500°C, the presence of which has already been confirmed at the Kakkonda geothermal field, northeastern Japan. The profitability of this method is highly dependent on the depth of drilling, but this concept could dramatically expand exploitable thermal conduction geothermal resources beyond the brittle zones.

著者

松澤 孝紀 武尾 実 井出 哲 飯尾 能久 伊藤 久男 今西 和俊 堀内 茂木

出版者

公益社団法人 日本地震学会

雑誌

地震 第2輯 (ISSN:00371114)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.56, no.1, pp.75-88, 2003-06-02 (Released:2010-03-11)

参考文献数

21

被引用文献数

3

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We estimated S-wave attenuation (QS-1) in a wide frequency range between 4Hz and 60Hz using the twofold spectral ratio [Matsuzawa et al. (1989)] in the western Nagano region, Japan, where the 1984 Naganoken-Seibu earthquake (M6.8) occurred and the seismicity is still active. In the region, there are 49 seismic stations in a range of around 10km in diameter and station separation is several kilometers. In this analysis, 156 shallow (depth <10km) events (0.9≤MW≤2.6) are used. We can effectively reduce the errors of the estimation by using a number of ray paths. We also determined the focal mechanisms of these events and corrected the waveform amplitudes using them. The direct S-wave portions of the seismograms are relatively small in a high frequency range (above 60Hz) at surface stations compared to the lower frequency waves, and contaminated by P-coda waves. Thus, to estimate QS-1 value, we used only the waves whose S/N ratios are greater than 2, where the noise levels are calculated for the time windows just before S-wave arrivals. Obtained QS-1 values show strong frequency dependence below 10Hz, but weak above 10Hz. These values are slightly larger than the ones estimated by Yoshimoto et al. (1998) from the coda-normalization method. This difference is probably owing to the fracture area of the 1984 Naganoken-Seibu earthquake that has strong attenuation.

著者

廣野 哲朗 小村 健太朗 藤本 光一郎 伊藤 久男 ジェームズ モリ ジロウ 佐藤 比呂志

出版者

公益社団法人 東京地学協会

雑誌

地学雑誌 (ISSN:0022135X)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.122, no.2, pp.323-342, 2013-04-25 (Released:2013-05-31)

参考文献数

111

被引用文献数

2 2

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Several fault-drilling projects have been conducted with the common aim of seeking direct access to zones of active faulting and understanding the fundamental processes governing earthquakes and fault behavior, as well as the factors that control their natural variability. Here, we review recent scientific drilling projects related to the Nojima Fault which slipped during the 1995 Hyogo-ken Nanbu Earthquake, the Chelungpu Fault which slipped during the 1999 Taiwan Chi-Chi earthquake, the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth, and the Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment. We also briefly introduce the ongoing drilling research by the Geophysical Observatory at the North Anatolian Fault Zone, the Deep Fault Drilling Project at the Alpine Fault, and the Japan Trench Fast Drilling Project. One of the main findings of fault-drilling research is a better understanding of the physico-chemical processes of the primary slip zone during an earthquake, which is closely related to the mechanism of dynamic fault weakening. In the case of the Chelungpu fault, integrated research with borehole experiments, core sample analyses, and numerical simulations were performed, and the results indicate that thermal pressurization occurred during the 1999 earthquake, explaining the peculiar seismic behavior during the earthquake. These fault-drilling projects related to active faults certainly improve our knowledge and understanding of earthquakes. In addition, we discuss new technical problems related to handling core samples, identifying the latest slip zone, and overprinting by ancient earthquake events.

著者

MORI James Jiro 伊藤 久男 柳谷 俊 松林 修 加納 靖之 木下 正高 MA Kou-fong

出版者

京都大学

雑誌

基盤研究(B)

巻号頁・発行日

2007

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我々は,車籠埔断層を横断する温度プロファイルを観測するために,深さ250mのボアホールを掘削した.この掘削場所は1999年集集地震による温度異常が2000年に観測された場所のごく近傍である.2008年と2010年の温度測定では,温度異常は観測されなかった.このことは,2000年に観測された温度シグナルが地震による摩擦発熱による真のシグナルであったことを示している.