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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 />

JSS009 Oral Presentation 2036<br />

The transfer functions between geomagnetic changes and neutral current<br />

of 500kV power line<br />

Dr. Jun Izutsu<br />

Earth Watch - Safety Net Research Center Chubu University <strong>IASPEI</strong><br />

Junji Kanaya, Tomiichi Uetake, Makoto Harada, Toshiyasu Nagao<br />

The electromagnetic anomalies related to earthquakes have been reported since 1980s, including the<br />

pre-seismic anomalous telluric current (e.g. VAN method). We have been examining the neutral current<br />

of transformers of the commercial power line system to see if it shows transient anomalies associated<br />

with earthquakes. This study was motivated by Higuchi (2000), reporting a large change of neutral<br />

current (over 30A) at a substation in west Japan before and after a nearby M3.0 earthquake. Since<br />

2002, we have monitored the neutral current by using a clamp sensor at three substations in seismically<br />

active areas in east Japan , i.e., Shin-Hadano, Shin-Fuji and Higashi-Yamanashi substations. The neutral<br />

current is sensitive to factors such as the geomagnetic changes and artificial noises (especially, DC<br />

driven electric trains) like conventional telluric current (Izutsu et al., 2006). In this study, we examine<br />

the observed neutral current data and compare them with geomagnetic field observed at Kakioka<br />

magnetic observatory and try to show the relationship between geomagnetic field and neutral current<br />

quantitatively. We calculate transfer function between geomagnetic field data (for input) and neutral<br />

current data (for output). Instead of the conventional Fourier transform, we have used continuous<br />

wavelet transform (Harada et al., 2004). Although the transfer functions for short-period geomagnetic<br />

changes were not clearly determined because of artificial noises of neutral current data, the transfer<br />

functions for long-period geomagnetic changes (longer than 300 sec) were determined with small<br />

errors. By this result, we can discriminate the influence of geomagnetic changes from observed neutral<br />

current data and it would make it easy to discriminate the anomalous signals possibly associated with<br />

earthquakes from noises.<br />

Keywords: neutral current, geomagnetic induced current, transfer function

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