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Modulation of high-frequency seismic noise by tidal deformations: The features of the phenomenon before strong earthquakes and a probable physical mechanism

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A probable physical mechanism of tidal modulation of intensity of the endogenous seismic noise is proposed. The mechanism associates this phenomenon with modulation of the size of the region over which the recorded noise is acquired due to nonhysteresis amplitude-dependent absorption in the Earth’s rocks. The two most important cases, namely dry and fluid-saturated rocks, are considered. In both cases, internal elongated strip-like contacts (even in minor quantities) are found to be of fundamental importance. The proposed mechanism provides an explanation for a variety of features of high-frequency seismic noise modulated by tides, which were revealed in the long-term observations on the Kamchatka Peninsula: (i) the modulation depth on the order of the first few percent; (ii) stabilization of the modulation phase before a strong earthquake; (iii) a frequently observed near jump-like change in the phase to the opposite-sign phase after the earthquake; (iv) the subsequent period of a relatively unstable phase; and (v) temporary predominance of the modulation component on the second harmonic of the fundamental tidal frequency in the vicinity of the time when the earthquake occurred.

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  1. Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Ul’yanova 46, Nizhnii Novgorod, 603950, Russia

    V. Yu. Zaitsev & L. A. Matveev

  2. Geophysical Service, Kamchatka Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, bulv. Piip 9, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, 683006, Russia

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Original Russian Text © V.Yu. Zaitsev, V.A. Saltykov, L.A. Matveev, 2011, published in Fizika Zemli, 2011, No. 11, pp. 3–17.

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Zaitsev, V.Y., Saltykov, V.A. & Matveev, L.A. Modulation of high-frequency seismic noise by tidal deformations: The features of the phenomenon before strong earthquakes and a probable physical mechanism. Izv., Phys. Solid Earth 47, 951–965 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1069351311100156

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