Ionospheric anomalies detected by GPS TEC measurements during two strong earthquakes in Indonesia

Author

Zou, Yuhua

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. Eng., Guilin Univ. of Electron. Technol., Guilin, China

Volume

2

fYear

2010

fDate

17-18 July 2010

Firstpage

199

Lastpage

202

Abstract

This paper reports the ionospheric anomalies observed during two strong earthquakes (M>6.0) which occurred in Southern Sumatra, Indonesia during 30 September-1 October 2009. The Global Ionospheric Maps (GIMs) of total electron content (TEC) provided by the International GNSS Service (IGS) network has been utilized. The solar and geomagnetic conditions were quiet during the two earthquakes. The upper and lower bound of inter-quartile range (IQR) were constructed to detect the abnormal earthquake-induced variations in TEC other than the diurnal and day-to-day pattern. Anomalous enhancements of TEC were detected 2-13 days before and 1-2 days after the earthquakes. The present results are in good agreement with previous observations reported by various researchers.

Keywords

atmospheric structure; earthquakes; ionospheric disturbances; seismology; AD 2009 09 30 to 10 01; GPS TEC measurements; Global Ionospheric Maps; Indonesia; International GNSS Service network; Southern Sumatra; abnormal earthquake-induced variations; day-to-day pattern; diurnal pattern; geomagnetic condition; interquartile range; ionospheric anomalies; solar condition; total electron content; Earthquakes; Electric fields; Global Positioning System; Ionosphere; Physics; Seismic measurements; Upper bound; GPS; TEC; earthquake; ionospheric anomalies;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Environmental Science and Information Application Technology (ESIAT), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7387-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ESIAT.2010.5567309

Filename

5567309