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EARTHQUAKE ›› 2012, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (3): 15-27.

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Free Torsional Oscillations of the Earth Observed by the JCZ-1 Seismometer

WU Hai-bo, HU Hong, ZHUANG Nian   

  1. Earthquake Administration of Hubei Province, Wuhan 430071, China
  • Received:2011-12-01 Revised:2012-02-15 Published:2021-08-19

Abstract: We first studied Earth's free torsional oscillation using observed data of JCZ-1 seismometer. JCZ-1 seismometer at the Wuhan Observation Station has observed the Earth's free oscillations excited by the great 2011 Japan earthquake, the great 2010 Chile earthquake and the great 2005 Indonesia earthquake, we detected the eigen periods of basic and first mode: 0T2~0T67 and 1T2~1T50, and error ratio is less than 0.5% by comparing with the PREM theoretical eigenvalues. We also complemented some modes: 0T11, 0T15, 0T19, 1T4, 1T5, 1T14, which are not mentioned in PREM, and observed the multi-peak phenomenon of 0T2, 0T6, 0T70T8. The results show that JCZ-1 seismometer can precisely observe ultralow frequency and long period free oscillations of the Earth.

Key words: Free torional oscillations of the Earth, JCZ-1 seismometer, Power spectral density, Oscillation modes

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