This dataset presented herein originates from the JAGUARS (The Japanese German Underground Acoustic Emission Research in South Africa) project, which took place from 2007 to 2009 in Mponeng Gold Mine, South Africa. Project partners included Ritsumeikan University, Earthquake Research Institute University of Tokyo and Tohuku University in Japan, the German Research Center for Geosciences Potsdam and Gesellschaft für Materialprüfung und Geophysik GMuG mbH in Germany, as well as the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in Johannesburg, Seismogen CC in Cartonville, Anglo Gold Ashanti Ltd and the Institute of Mining Seismology in the Republic of South Africa. This publication forms part of the Geo-INQUIRE initiative (HORIZON-INFRA-2021-SERV-01 call, project number 101058518).
It is cross-referenced on the EPISODES Platform (https://episodesplatform.eu/?lang=en#episode:JAGUARS (not yet existing)), which is managed by the EPOS TCS AH (European Plate Observing System Thematic Core Service Anthropogenic Hazards). Within the EPISODES Platform, the datasets are consolidated into an “episode” titled “JAGUARS: Mining induced picoseismicity associated with gold mining”. The EPISODES Platform offers open access to the integrated research infrastructures of the EPOS TCS AH, enabling users to download data and utilize a range of basic online visualization tools to graphically represent and process the datasets directly within their personal workspace.
This dataset accompanies our study on tremor-like episodes that we discovered in the low-frequency seismic signals preceding the 2023 Mw 7.8 Kahramanmaraş earthquake in Türkiye. Between 12 August 2022 and 6 February 2023, eight months before the mainshock, we identified tremor-like episodes recorded at five seismic stations (NAR, KHMR, MGND, GAZ, and GZT) within a 46 km radius of the mainshock epicenter. Using seismic data from the NAR station (the closest to the mainshock) bandpass-filtered between 1.7 and 2.2 Hz, we identified the start and end times of 3741 tremor-like episodes, resulting in a catalog of 7482 markers.
This catalog forms the foundation of the statistical analyses presented in Zali et al. (2025). Additionally, we manually picked the first arrival times of 162 selected pulses recorded between 24 and 31 December 2022 from these episodes across the five stations. Our analysis suggests that these tremor-like episodes originate from an anthropogenic source, likely associated with activities of cement plants located on the Narlı Fault, which hosted the earthquake epicenter. This data publication provides the catalog of start and end times for 3741 tremor-like episodes at the NAR station and the first arrival times of 162 selected pulses recorded at the five stations.