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EARTHQUAKE ›› 2010, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (1): 36-49.

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Spheroidal Mode of the Earth Free Oscillations Excitated by Wenchuan Earthquake Recorded by China Digital Seismograph Network

XU Xiao-feng1, WAN Yong-ge1,2, WANG Hui-lin3   

  1. 1. Institute of Geophysics, CEA, Beijing 10081, China;
    2. Institute of Disaster Prevention Science and Technology, Heibei 065201, China;
    3. Institute of Earthquake Science, CEA , Beijing 100036, China
  • Received:2009-05-20 Revised:2009-07-28 Online:2010-01-31 Published:2021-10-15

Abstract: An M8.0 earthquake struck Wenchuan on May 12, 2008. The strong earthquake made continuous oscillation of the earth. Using the 5-day seismic waveform data recorded by China Digital Seismograph Network (CDSN) after the earthquake, we studied the data of VHZ channel by power spectral density estimation. Because the frequency response of seismograph in CDSN suppresses the information of low frequency signal,we do not need to remove the solid tide in our data processing. So we extracted 73 spherical modes of 0S40S76 of the earth's free oscillation and other 6 modes(1S2, 3S2, 1S4, 1S0, 1S7, 4S2) and they are consistent and nearly same with the frequencies of the modes of Preliminary Reference Earth Model (PREM). The results can be used to invert focal mechanism of this earthquake and to explore the inner structure of the earth.

Key words: Power spectral density estimation, Earth free oscillation, Spheroidal free oscillation, Wenchuan earthquake

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