The method of transitional processes in studies of geological media with magnetic viscosity
© Kozhevnikov N.O., Antonov E.Yu., Matasova G.G., Kamnev Ya.K.
A lithospheric ultra low frequency (ULF) magnetic activity is recently considered as very promising candidate for application to
short-time earthquake (EQ) forecasting. However the ULF lithospheric magnetic field is very weak and masked by much
stronger ionospheric and magnetospheric signals. The study of pre-earthquake magnetic activity is very hard problem which
consists of identification and localization of weak signal sources in seismo-hazardous area of the Earth crust. A new approach
is developed to find a source of pre-EQ ULF electromagnetic activity of lithospheric origin. For separation and localization
of EQ magnetic precursors the polarization ellipse technique has been developed to process the measurements data acquired from
3-component magnetometers. The method efficiency is illustrated at the example of the data from fluxgate magnetometers installed in
Sichuan province. The Panzhihua earthquake with magnitude Mw 6,0 was happened in the southern part of Sichuan province on
August 30, 2008 at 8:30:52 UT. The EQ hypocentre was located in point 26,28 N, 101,92 E at depth 10 km. The data from
three fluxgate magnetometers placed near clustered EQs area at a distance 10--55 km from epicentre of main shock have been processed.
The theoretical approach, observation method and obtained results are discussed.
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