Analysis result of NPE 2012 at Japanese NDC; Event selection using ATM and waveform analysis

Otsu, Takayuki*; Arai, Nobuo*; Nogami, Mami*; Kijima, Yuichi ; Yamamoto, Yoichi ; Oda, Tetsuzo

Japan has two kinds of NDCs, one is NDC-1 in charge of analysis of SHI data and the other is NDC-2 in charge of RN issue. Both NDCs participated in the NDC preparedness Exercise (NPE) 2012 and tried to get results collaboratively. In this exercise, NDC-2 made backward and forward tracking using ATM. NDC-1 tried to select one event from among several candidate events by the result of ATM and made some seismo-acoustic analysis. NDC-1 tried to sift through candidate events from REB using the results from NDC-2. Finally two possible candidate events were selected. These events are located around Mezhdurechensk, Kemerovo Oblast, Russia. It was very difficult to distinguish which event was the candidate event, because these waveforms have similar characteristics each other and look like small explosion.