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The traditional approach of GPS investigations is determining trends which are connected with the motion of tectonic plates. At the same time, a global GPS network provides the possibility of investigating statistical properties of high-frequency earth surface tremor in different parts of the world. Based on the results of coherence and correlation analysis of noise components of daily three-component GPS time series, representing measurements of earth surface displacements at 1097 stations, we have found that, during 2010–2011, there was a significant increase in the average level of noise coherence or correlation with dominant periods 7–9 days of surface tremor in nine regions of the earth, and in some of these regions, the average level of coherence or correlation is still high and does not return to the previous level. The increase of the average level of coherence and correlation could be detected on the graphs purely visually, while the middle time point of the time interval in which the ascending occurred is detected more precisely by a formal method based on the use of the Fisher’s ratio.
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The author is grateful to the Indiana University Bloomington and University of Nevada, Reno for providing free access to three-component GPS daily time series from the global network consisting of 10590 permanent stations all over the world. This work was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Project no. 18-05-00133).
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Lyubushin, A. Global coherence of GPS-measured high-frequency surface tremor motions. GPS Solut 22, 116 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10291-018-0781-3
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