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EARTHQUAKE ›› 2009, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (4): 117-122.

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Anomalies of Outgoing Longwave Radiation before Some Medium to Large Earthquakes

JING Feng1,2,3, SHEN Xu-hui3, KANG Chun-li4, MENG Qing-yan1, XIONG Pan3   

  1. 1. Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, CAS, Beijing 100101, China;
    2. Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China;
    3. Institute of Earthquake Science, CEA, Beijing 100036, China;
    4. China Earthquake Networks Center, CEA, Beijing 100045, China
  • Received:2008-10-31 Revised:2009-06-02 Online:2009-10-31 Published:2021-10-15

Abstract: Three medium to large earthquakes happened in China in 2008, including the 25 August Zhongba MS6.8 earthquake, the May 12 Wenchuan MS8.0 earthquake and 21 March Yutian MS7.3 earthquake. These three earthquakes have been studied using outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) 1°×1° grid data provided by NOAA(National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration). The daily OLR data two months before and after the seismic events have been analyzed using moving average, standard threshold and so on. It is shown that the OLR anomalies have been found about 40 days to several days before the seismic events. These anomalies may have some relationship with the seismic events, but the relationship between the abnormal magnitude and earthquake magnitude were not simply linear.

Key words: Outgoing longwave radiation, MS>6.5 earthquake, Thermal anomaly, Wenchuan MS8.0 earthquake

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