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Analysis of Electromagnetic Disturbance Anomaly prior to the 2017 MS7.0 Jiuzhaigou Earthquake

HUANG Ji-pan1,2,3, WANG Xin-an1,2,3, YONG Shan-shan1,2, WANG Mo1,3, LIU Zhong1,3   

  1. 1.The Key Laboratory of Integrated Micro-systems Science and Engineering Applications, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, Guangdong Shenzhen 518055, China;
    2.The Research Center of Earthquake Monitoring and Forecasting Technology, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, Guangdong Shenzhen 518055, China;
    3.School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
  • Received:2018-11-05 Online:2019-07-31 Published:2019-08-09

Abstract: Electromagnetic disturbance phenomena before earthquakes have been observed for many times, however the correlation should be further studied. We designed a multi-component seismic monitoring system-AETA, to monitor the electromagnetic disturbance. At present more than 200 AETA devices have been deployed in China under the support of the Chinese Earthquake Administration. On August 8, 2017, a large MS7.0 earthquake occurred in Jiuzhaigou county of Sichuan Province, China. There are 22 sets of devices installed at seismic stations within the 500 km range of the epicenter. We analyzed the observation data of 30 days before and after the earthquake using the sliding interquartile method and a 27-day window. The result shows that abnormal signal appeared at 11 stations. Among them, 4 out of 6 stations within 200 km around the epicenter have anomalies. And the positive anomaly is much more than the negative anomaly. Besides, most anomalies occurred during night time (20:00~6:00).

Key words: The 2017 Jiuzhaigou Earthquake, Electromagnetic Disturbance, Time-series analysis, Anomaly

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