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Indian Journal of Physics

, Volume 85, Issue 3, pp 447–470 | Cite as

Studies on the anomalies in the behaviour of transmitted subionospheric VLF electromagnetic signals and the changes in the fourth Schumann resonance mode as signatures of two pending earthquakes

  • S. S. DeEmail author
  • B. Bandyopadhyay
  • T. K. Das
  • Suman Paul
  • D. K. Haldar
  • B. K. De
  • S. Barui
  • Minu Sanfui
  • Pinaki Pal
  • Goutami Chattopadhyay
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Abstract

Some anomalies are observed in the subinospheric VLF electromagnetic (EM) signals at 19.8 kHz transmitted from North West Cape, Australia (lat: 21.82° S; long: 114.16° E) and 40 kHz from Fukushima, Japan (lat: 36.18° N, long: 139.85° E), recorded by VLF receivers near Kolkata (lat: 22.56° N, long: 88.5° E) during the occurrence of the two earthquakes at Andaman Island (lat:14.018° N, long: 92.92° E), India and other at South Coast of Honsu (lat: 34.78° N, long: 138.27° E), Japan. The analyses of these seismo-ionospheric VLF EM anomalies at these two frequencies during some days before and after the occurrence of earthquake on August 11, 2009 will be presented here. VLF-LF transient variations of significant magnitude in the form of spikes are observed few days prior to the day of occurrence of the earthquakes that continued several days more, then decaying gradually and finally ceased. Signals are examined to describe their connectivity with earthquakes. The enhancements of the amplitude and frequency of the fourth mode of Schumann resonance spectra have been detected during the occurrence of the two earthquakes, which will also be reported here.

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Earthquake seismo-electromagnetism ionospheric perturbations subionospheric propagation 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • S. S. De
    • 1
    Email author
  • B. Bandyopadhyay
    • 1
  • T. K. Das
    • 1
  • Suman Paul
    • 1
  • D. K. Haldar
    • 1
  • B. K. De
    • 2
  • S. Barui
    • 1
  • Minu Sanfui
    • 1
  • Pinaki Pal
    • 2
  • Goutami Chattopadhyay
    • 1
  1. 1.Centre of Advanced Study in Radio Physics and ElectronicsUniversity of CalcuttaKolkataIndia
  2. 2.Department of PhysicsTripura UniversitySuryamaninagarIndia

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