Title
Barometric and magnetic observations of vertical acoustic resonance and resultant generation of field-aligned current associated with earthquakes
Date Issued
01 January 2013
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Iyemori T.
Tanaka Y.
Odagi Y.
Sano Y.
Takeda M.
Nose M.
Utsugi M.
Choque E.
Yamanaka S.
Nakanishi K.
Matsumura M.
Shinagawa H.
Publisher(s)
Springer Berlin
Abstract
Three rare occasions are introduced, where the excitation of vertical acoustic resonance between the ground and the ionosphere, and the resultant generation of a field-aligned current, just after earthquakes are observationally confirmed. In the case of two inland earthquakes, barometric observations very close to the epicenters (i.e., only 30 km apart) were available, and they showed a sharp spectral peak which appeared within one hour after the origin time and lasted a few hours. The observed periods of the spectral peaks around 260 seconds are close to the period of the theoretically-expected fundamental mode of the resonance. On the other hand, magnetic observations on the ground showed a dominant period at 220-230 seconds which corresponds to the first overtone among theoretically-expected major resonance peaks. In the third case, i.e., during the 2010 Chile earthquake, a long-period magnetic oscillation in the east-west direction, which has two major resonance periods at 265 and 190-195 seconds, was observed on the night-side magnetic dip equator in Peru, where the distance is more than 2600 km from the epicenter, under a very quiet geomagnetic condition. The oscillation was interpreted as the effect of field-aligned current generated through a dynamo process in the ionosphere over the epicenter caused by the resonance. Copyright © The Society of Geomagnetism and Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences (SGEPSS).
Start page
901
End page
909
Volume
65
Issue
8
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería ambiental y geológica
Geotecnia
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84890326959
Source
Earth, Planets and Space
ISSN of the container
13438832
Sponsor(s)
Acknowledgments. The geomagnetic data from Memambetsu and Kakioka were provided by the JMA/Kakioka Magnetic Observatory. The barometric data at Mizusawa were provided by the NAOJ/Mizusawa VLBI Observatory. Barometric observations at Shigaraki are maintained by the RISH/Shigaraki MU Radar Site, Kyoto University. This study was partly supported by the 2011 Kyoto University “Core Stage Backup” program and the 2012 Kyoto University “Zengaku Keihi” program.
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