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Seismogenic Quasi-Stationary Electric Fields and Currents from Large-Scale Sources on the Earth’s Surface: Comparison of Model Representations

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A comparative analysis of various model representations of seismogenic quasi-stationary electric fields/currents from large-scale sources on the Earth’s surface was carried out. It has been established that previously proposed analytical models of seismogenic quasi-stationary sources of electric field/current with field/current amplitudes continuously decreasing to zero at infinity are consistent with extreme values of electric field/current experimentally observed in epicentral zones before earthquakes. It is also shown that sharply spatially limited models of seismogenic sources of quasi-stationary electric fields/currents in the epicentral zones of future earthquakes on the Earth’s surface lead to their values being an order of magnitude or more greater than those actually observed.

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The study was supported by the Basic Scientific Research Program of the State Academy of Sciences on the topic Study of Solar Activity and Physical Processes in the Sun–Earth System (no. 0037-2014-0003).

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Hegai, V.V. Seismogenic Quasi-Stationary Electric Fields and Currents from Large-Scale Sources on the Earth’s Surface: Comparison of Model Representations. Geomagn. Aeron. 64, 280–288 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1134/S001679322360100X

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