Abstract This paper reports the ionospheric anomalies observed during strong local earthquakes (M⩾5.0) which occurred mostly in and around Uzbekistan in seismically active zones, during years 2006 to 2009 within approximately 1000km distance from the observing GPS stations located in Tashkent and Kitab, Uzbekistan. The solar and geomagnetic conditions were quiet during occurrence of the selected strong earthquakes. We produce Total Electron Content (TEC) time series over both sites and apply them to detect anomalous TEC signals preceding or accompanying the local earthquakes. The results show anomalous increase or decrease of TEC before or during the earthquakes. In general the anomalies occurred 1–7days before the earthquakes as ionospheric electromagnetic precursors. To identify the anomalous values of TEC we calculated differential TEC (dTEC). dTEC is obtained by subtracting monthly averaged diurnal vTEC from the values of observed vTEC at each epoch. This procedure removes normal diurnal variations of vTEC. The present results are in good agreement with the previous observations on ionospheric earthquake precursors reported by various researchers.


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    Titel :

    Ionospheric anomalies of local earthquakes detected by GPS TEC measurements using data from Tashkent and Kitab stations


    Beteiligte:
    Tojiev, S.R. (Autor:in) / Ahmedov, B.J. (Autor:in) / Tillayev, Y.A. (Autor:in) / Eshkuvatov, H.E. (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Advances in Space Research ; 52 , 6 ; 1146-1154


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2013-06-13


    Format / Umfang :

    9 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch