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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 />

JSS010 Oral Presentation 2067<br />

Detection of electromagnetic precursors by demeter satellite before<br />

earthquakes<br />

Mr. Shourabh Bhattacharya<br />

Space Science Laboratory, Department of Physics Barkatullah University, Bhopal, India<br />

Shivalika Sarkar, A.K.Gwal, M.Parrot<br />

One of the major advancements related to study of earthquake phenomenology is the investigation and<br />

analysis of electromagnetic signatures that are observed before seismic activities. They are also termed<br />

as earthquake precursors due to their existence before seismic activities. These electromagnetic<br />

precursors found prior to seismic activities can be a vital diagnostic tool, the long term investigation of<br />

which may establish them as one of the promising short term precursors of earthquakes. Moreover,<br />

significant anomalies are found to exist predominantly in the Ultra Low Frequency (ULF) /Extremely Low<br />

Frequency (ELF) range due to their greater penetration depth, as compared to other higher frequency<br />

ranges. In this paper, the authors discuss some important results in terms of electromagnetic emissions<br />

occurring as short term electromagnetic precursors in the ULF/ELF range which have been observed in<br />

the ionosphere, with the help of DEMETER satellite. The DEMETER satellite was launched in June 2004,<br />

and is aimed to study the ionospheric perturbations linked with seismic activities.<br />

Keywords: demeter, earthquakes, electromagnetic precursors

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