Anomalous atmospheric signals before the 25 september 2008 Zhongba earthquake in China

Author

Guangmeng, Guo ; Kai, Qin

Author_Institution

Nanyang Normal Univ., Nanyang, China

fYear

2011

fDate

24-29 July 2011

Firstpage

2197

Lastpage

2199

Abstract

The Ms 6.0 earthquake of 25 September 2008 occurred in Zhongba Country, China´s south-western Tibet province. In the paper, using data from the National Center for Environmental Prediction (NCEP), we have investigated surface latent heat flux, humidity and water vapor changes before the 25 September 2008 Zhongba earthquake. The result shows that the maximum values of SLHF and the minimum values of relative humidity and water vapor appeared near the epicenter simultaneously on Sept. 6. Although the mechanism of these anomalies is not clear, we consider water and heat exchange in the earth-atmosphere system pre-earthquake may play an important role.

Keywords

atmospheric humidity; atmospheric temperature; earthquakes; A 2008 09 25; China; National Center for Environmental Prediction data; Tibet province; Zhongba Country; Zhongba earthquake; anomalous atmospheric signals; epicenter; humidity change; surface latent heat flux; water vapor change; Earthquakes; Humidity; Remote sensing; Rocks; Satellites; Terrestrial atmosphere; Water heating; Earthquake; Relative Humidity; Surface Latent Heat Flux; Thermal Anomalies; Water Vapor;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2011 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1003-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2011.6049603

Filename

6049603