• Groundwater Level Responses due to Moderate·Small Magnitude Earthquakes Using 1Hz groundwater Data

  • Gahyeon Lee1, Jae Min Lee1, Dongkyu Park1, Dong-Hun Kim1, Jaehoon Jung1, Soo-Hyoung Lee1,*

  • 1Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, Groundwater Environment Research Center

  • 1Hz 지하수 데이터를 활용한 중·소규모 지진으로 인한 지하수위 반응

  • 이가현1·이재민1·박동규1·김동훈1·정재훈1·이수형1,*

  • 1한국지질자원연구원 지하수환경연구센터

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This Article

  • 2024; 29(4): 32-43

    Published on Aug 30, 2024

  • 10.7857/JSGE.2024.29.4.032
  • Received on Jul 25, 2024
  • Revised on Aug 5, 2024
  • Accepted on Aug 19, 2024

Correspondence to

  • Soo-Hyoung Lee

  • Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, Groundwater Environment Research Center

  • E-mail: rbagio@kigam.re.kr