The study of excitation of the earthquake to Earth's rotation |
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| Authors: | Gu Zhen-Nian |
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| Institution: | (1) Shanghai Observatory, Chinese Academy of Science, 80 Nandan Road, 200030 Shanghai, China |
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| Abstract: | The earthquake produces a global static displacement field due to the dislocation in the epicenter. This displacement field in turn changes the Earth's inertia tensor, hence exciting the variation of both polar motion and length of day. In general, large earthquake produces greater displacement field, which has greater effects upon the earth rotational properties. In spite of scientists efforts in the last decades, it is found that the polar motion and the length of day excited by earthquake are at least two orders of magnitude less than those derived from observation. In the future with high observational accuracy the effect of earthquake on polar motion and length of day would be observable.Using the fault plane parameters, the location of epicenter and the expression given by Dahlen as well as the step function, the accumulative change of the axial and equatorial moments of inertia of the Earth earthquake occurring in period of 1977–1994 is estimated in this paper. Results have shown that change of pole axis direction induced by single earthquake is independent of the magnitude of the earthquake, which is random, but large earthquake contributes most to the accumulative change of direction of polar drift. The earthquake tends to make the drift of rotational pole towards the direction of 130–150 E. This direction is roughly different to that inferred from observations. Accumulative changes of both the two equatorial principal moments and the axial moment of inertia of the Earth present the strongest non-randomness and secular behaviour. The change depends upon the slip angle of the fault movement in a large extent. |
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| Keywords: | Earth Rotation Earthquake Excitation |
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