Cyclic variations in the Earth’s flattening and questions of seismotectonics |
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| Authors: | B W Levin E V Sasorova G M Steblov A V Domanskii A S Prytkov E N Tsyba |
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| Institution: | 1.Institute of Marine Geology and Geophysics, Far Eastern Branch,Russian Academy of Sciences,Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk,Russia;2.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology,Russian Academy of Sciences,Moscow,Russia;3.Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth,Russian Academy of Sciences,Moscow,Russia;4.Federal Research Center United Geophysical Survey of the Russian Academy of Sciences,Obninsk, Kaluga obl.,Russia;5.All-Russia Scientific Research Institute of Physicotechnical and Radio Technical Measurements,Mendeleevo, Moscow obl.,Russia |
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| Abstract: | For more than a decade, the global network of GPS stations whose measurements are part of the International GPS Service (IGS) have been recording cyclic variations in the radius vector of the geodetic ellipsoid with a period of one year and amplitude of ~10 mm. The analysis of the figure of the Earth carried out by us shows that the observed variations in the vertical component of the Earth’s surface displacements can induce small changes in the flattening of the Earth’s figure which are, in turn, caused by the instability of the Earth’s rotation. The variations in the angular velocity and flattening of the Earth change the kinetic energy of the Earth’s rotation. The additional energy is ~1021 J. The emerging variations in the flattening of the Earth’s ellipsoid lead to changes in the surface area of the Earth’s figure, cause the development of deformations in rocks, accumulation of damage, activation of seismotectonic processes, and preparation of earthquakes. It is shown that earthquakes can be caused by the instability of the Earth’s rotation which induces pulsations in the shape of the Earth and leads to the development of alternating-sign deformations in the Earth’s solid shell. |
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