Transient variation in seismic wave speed points to fast fluid movement in the Earth's outer core
Transient variation in seismic wave speed points to fast fluid movement in the Earth's outer core
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地震波速度的瞬态变化表明地球外核中的流体快速运动
DOI:
10.1038/s43247-022-00432-7
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发表时间:
2022
影响因子:
7.9
通讯作者:
Zhou, Ying
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作者:
Zhou, Ying
The solid inner core grows through crystallization of the liquid metallic outer core. This process releases latent heat as well as light elements, providing thermal and chemical buoyancy forces to drive the Earth’s geodynamo. Here we investigate temporal changes in the liquid outer core by measuring travel times of core-penetrating SKS waves produced by pairs of large earthquakes at close hypocenters. While the majority of the measurements do not require a change in the outer core, we observe SKS waves that propagate through the upper half of the outer core in the low latitude Pacific travel about one second faster at the time when the second earthquake occurred, about 20 years after the first earthquake. This observation can be explained by 2–3% of density deficit, possibly associated with high-concentration light elements in localized transient flows in the outer core, with a flow speed in the order of 40 km/year.
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