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Journal: Earthquake Science  2009 No.5  Share to Sinaweibo  Share to QQweibo  Share to Facebook  Share to Twitter    clicks:888   
Title:
Investigation of ionospheric TEC changes related to the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake based on statistic analysis and signal detection
Author: Jianyong Li; Guojie Meng; Min Wang; Hua Liao; Xuhui Shen
Adress: Institute of Earthquake Science,China Earthquake Administration,Beijing 100036,China
Abstract: Ionospheric TEC(total electron content) time series are derived from GPS measurements at 13 stations around the epicenter of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake.Defining anomaly bounds for a sliding window by quartile and 2-standard deviation of TEC values,this paper analyzed the characteristics of ionospheric changes before and after the destructive event.The Neyman-Pearson signal detection method is employed to compute the probabilities of TEC abnormalities.Result shows that one week before the Wenchuan earthquake,ionospheric TEC over the epicenter and its vicinities displays obvious abnormal disturbances,most of which are positive anomalies.The largest TEC abnormal changes appeared on May 9,three days prior to the seismic event.Signal detection shows that the largest possibility of TEC abnormity on May 9 is 50.74%,indicating that ionospheric abnormities three days before the main shock are likely related to the preparation process of the MS8.0 Wenchuan earthquake. 
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