Abstract:
The Southern Yellow Sea earthquake of magnitude 5.3 occurred on January 23,1992 is the only one earthtjuake of
Ms>5 after the Heze earthquake (
Ms 5.9) of October 7,1983 in Shandong area.This paper summarizes this shock.In the paper, the features of aftershock sequence, focal mechanism solution, intensity distribution and structure of this shock are presented.The precursory phenomenon and it's characters appeared in Shandong area prior to this shock are studied.Finally we have also introduced the prediction process and the countermeasures for this shock.