Rail and Road Seismology

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to invite you to contribute a paper to an upcoming Special Issue on “Rail and Road Seismology” for the journal Geosciences (ISSN 2076-3263). This Special Issue aims to advance our knowledge on rail and road sources by gathering novel research articles, technical notes, reviews, and opinions on this topic. Please see the summary below:

Seismic ground motion is generated by a variety of mechanisms including tectonic sources such as earthquakes and tremors, storms and wind shaking of structures such as trees and buildings, as well as anthropogenic sources such as airplanes, cars, and trains. Recent studies have demonstrated that the daily duration of seismic signals of non-natural origin is likely to exceed the total time covered by earthquakes in many seismic observatories. Following the increasing number of continuously recording seismic networks, there has been a growing interest in the sources associated with anthropogenic activities in the last decade. Trains, trucks, and other moving vehicles on railways and roads can act as repeatable sources of energy that exist broadly at no cost. Identifying and modeling these signals can contribute to applications such as imaging the geotechnical layer, fault zones, and exploration facilities. Moreover, long-term monitoring with rail and road sources allows us to evaluate temporal changes of the subsurface structures and can provide important constraints for the rheology of shallow rocks, engineering seismology, and various other topics.

In this Special Issue, I would like to encourage contributions including, but not limited to, the following:

• Identifying/categorizing rail and road sources;
• Novel approaches (such as Distribute Acoustic Sensing) for monitoring the rail and road traffic;
• Technique developments in modeling rail and road sources;
• Application of rail and road sources in seismic imaging;
• Road traffic variations due to the COVID-19.

Dr. Haoran Meng
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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• rail and road seismology
• anthropogenic sources
• geotechnical layer imaging
• fault zone imaging
• temporal changes
• clustering algorithm