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IUGG XXIV General Assembly July 2-13, 2007 Perugia, Italy<br />

(S) - <strong>IASPEI</strong> - International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's<br />

Interior<br />

JSS008 Oral Presentation 1982<br />

Dynamic Seismo-Electromagnetic Effects.<br />

Dr. Malcolm Johnston<br />

Earthquake and Volcanic Hazards U.S. Geological Survey <strong>IASPEI</strong><br />

Karl Kappler<br />

Electromagnetic (EM) signals during earthquakes are expected to result from dynamic stress field<br />

radiation and sensor movement driven by ground motion. In the epicentral region, small signals at the<br />

time of rupture initiation might also be expected from direct EM radiation from the source. EM signals<br />

preceding rupture may also occur from initiation of the fault failure process but these are likely to be<br />

smaller than those associated with the main seismic energy release. High-resolution EM data within a<br />

kilometer of the San Andreas fault and directly above the end of the rupture from the recent M6<br />

Parkfield, California earthquake on September 28, 2004, allows some quantification of these various<br />

processes. During the earthquake, the EM instruments operated continuously at 40 sps as the rupture<br />

propagated below the buried sensors. A second EM system installed 115 km to the northwest allows<br />

correction for large-scale common-mode noise from the ionosphere and magnetosphere. The resolution<br />

of magnetic fields at 1 Hz was about 3 picotesla while that in electric field was about 6 microvolt/km. A<br />

search for direct source rupture effects expected at this site up to 3 seconds before the P wave arrival<br />

shows no apparent signal above the noise during this time. Magnetic and electric field "seismograms"<br />

occurred during the seismic wave arrivals with peak-to-peak (P-P) magnetic signals of about 0.4 nT in<br />

the north and east directions and 8 nT in the vertical and P-P electric signals of about 60 microvolts/km<br />

in the north and east directions. These appear to track the ground velocity seismograms closely with the<br />

peak amplitudes occurring during the larger S wave arrivals. Regarding different contributions to the EM<br />

seismograms, preliminary models show that stress changes from the dynamic radiation field could<br />

generate local oscillating fields of 0.1 nT. In comparison, expected sensor translation of up to 30 cm/sec<br />

in a resistive medium of about 3.0 ohm-m through the Earths geomagnetic field could generate<br />

magnetic and electric fields of 0.1 nT and less than 100 microvolts/km, respectively, in the EM<br />

seismogram. While we are attempting to predict and remove translation and rotation effects, at this<br />

point both crustal stress cycling and sensor translation/rotation are apparently important contributors to<br />

these signals. Regarding precursory behavior, these EM data show no indications of unusual noise<br />

above the 95% confidence limits of 20 picotesla and 20 microvolts/km, respectively, in the ultra-lowfrequency<br />

(ULF) bands (0.01 Hz to 20 Hz) during the week before the earthquake. This conflicts with<br />

suggestions that magnetic noise some 50 times larger may have preceded the 1989 ML7.1 Loma Prieta<br />

earthquake and electric fields some 1000 times larger may have preceded earthquakes of this<br />

magnitude in Greece. On the other hand, static offsets at this site caused by the earthquake<br />

corresponded to about 0.2 nT as expected from geodetic and seismological models of the earthquake<br />

assuming a total remanent and induced magnetization of 2 A/m in the medium and a stress sensitivity<br />

of 0.002/MPa.<br />

Keywords: dynamic seismogran, electromagnetic, earthquake

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