PHYSICAL-PROPERTIES OF THE VARIATIONS OF THE ELECTRIC-FIELD OF THE EARTH PRECEDING EARTHQUAKES .1.
PHYSICAL-PROPERTIES OF THE VARIATIONS OF THE ELECTRIC-FIELD OF THE EARTH PRECEDING EARTHQUAKES .1.
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DOI:
10.1016/0040-1951(84)90059-3
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发表时间:
1984-01-01
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
ALEXOPOULOS, K
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作者:
VAROTSOS, P;ALEXOPOULOS, K
The electric field variations of the earth that occur before earthquakes have been studied in a network of eighteen stations in Greece. These precursor seismic electric signals (SES) occur 6–115 h before the earthquake (EQ) and have a duration of 1 min to 1 1 2 h. The duration and the lead-time in contrast to other precursors, do not depend on EQ-magnitude (M). These signals appear as a transient change of the potential difference measured between two electrodes (up to a few millivolts for electrodes at a distance of about L= 50 m) depending on M, the epicentral distance r and the local inhomogeneities. The components of electric field are measured in two perpendicular directions (EW and NS). The totality of experiments showed that the interesting quantity of each SES is the maximum value ΔV of the potential change. The SES of an impending EQ appears simultaneously at a number of stations without being accompanied by any significant change in the magnetic field. The following rules have been established: 1.(1) Seismic electric signals recorded on a single line (eg EW) of a given station and emitted from various seismic regions have ΔV-values that decrease with the epicentral distance according to a 1 r-law (for r⩾ 50 km). 2.(2) For a given line of a given station the SES emitted from a given seismic region (r∼-const.) have ΔV-values that increase with the magnitude; to a good approximation log ΔV versus M gives a straight line with a slope between 0.3 and 0.4. If for the same station and line another seismic region is considered, the straight line is parallel to the previous one but shifted by a constant amount that depends purely on the ratio of the epicentral distances. Therefore, if the quantity log (ΔV· r) for earthquakes emitted from various seismic regions is plotted versus M, a unique linear relation for each station appears with the same slope. 3.(3) The simultaneous ΔV-values of a given EQ recorded at various stations do not follow a 1 r dependence. The value ΔV L of the electric field in each direction, divided by a suitable factor—an empirically determined effective resistivity—gives a quantity characteristic of the variation of the component of the current density in the earth which can be designated as the intensity of the signal in this direction. By combining the values of the two directions the total intensity J of the SES results. This quantity is found to attenuate with the distances of the stations according to a 1 r-law so that log (J· r) is an unique linear function of M for all stations and seismic regions.