Abstract Earthquake prediction stimulates the searches for a correlation between seismic activity and ionospheric anomalies. Contrary to common focuses on strong earthquakes, we report the ionospheric disturbances, 2days before a moderate Ms=4.7 Chongqing earthquake (29.4°N, 105.5°E, depth=7.0km, occurred at 21:21LT, 10 September, 2010) with the data of ground-based ionosondes and IGS receivers. The data covering the period under the quiet geomagnetic conditions and a geomagnetic storm was analyzed with upper and lower bounds. It is found that there were significant enhancements of foF2 and total electron content (TEC) on the afternoon of 8 September, 2010, with a limited area close to the epicentre, which was different from the feature of ionospheric perturbations triggered by the geomagnetic storm on 15 September. Taking into account the heliogeomagnetical condition, we conclude that the observed ionospheric enhancements were very likely associated with the forthcoming moderate Chongqing earthquake, which implies that the relationship between the amplitudes of ionospheric disturbances and earthquakes is very complicated.
Ionospheric disturbances on 8 September, 2010: Was it connected with the incoming moderate Chongqing earthquake?
Advances in Space Research ; 50 , 2 ; 205-210
2012-03-31
6 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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