震前蒙城地震台地脉动噪声的特征

对本台数字化地震观测以来记录到的典型地震,运用数字地震信号处理方法,测算每个抽选地震震前一分钟地脉动信号在时间域和频率域的特征数据,通过频谱分析法,获得了震前地脉动噪声频谱的差异性。初步研究了典型地震震前地脉动频谱变化的特征和规律,共归纳了18类震前地脉动噪声类型,按照无震平静分钟值脉动频谱特征类比典型地震震前分钟值频谱的异样变化,发现正常与异常的地脉动噪声特征,最主要的还是受震级强度和地理位置的影响较大。临震前地脉动分钟值频谱特征异常,可用于震前脉动前兆异常变化跟踪,从而利用地脉动频谱的特征参量监测地震孕育过程,为地震中长期及短临预报提供依据。     

数字化形变观测提取的地震短临异常特征

数字化形变资料由于采样率的大幅度提高, 丰富了潮汐观测的震前变化信息, 使研究震前短临的异常信息成为可能。通过对2001年10月27日永胜6. 0级地震以及2001年11月14日昆仑山口西8. 1级地震前后若干倾斜、重力数字化观测的结果进行计算分析, 初步获得了两次地震前形变异常的阈值及临震异常特征图像。对临近地震前形变异常时间、空间上的特征进行总结。依据固体潮汐观测模型计算潮汐、非潮汐参数与日异常频次、日差分异常频次, 将各参数综合考虑, 有可能对未来发震的时间及地点给出预估计。     

河北唐山古冶5.1级地震前的重力变化

利用京津冀地区2018—2020年5月的流动重力观测资料,分析了2020年7月12日河北唐山古冶5.1级地震前不同时间尺度重力场变化.结果表明:0.5年尺度重力场变化图像较好地反映了此次地震"震前一年,重力场持续上升(正)变化→震前反向变化→在重力变化梯度带零等值线附近发震"的演化过程;震前0.5年和1年年尺度重力场均显示,地震发生在重力变化零等值线附近.     

河北省文霸网流动重力观测对网区及周边地震的反应

绘制了河北省文霸网流动重力测值的时序变化曲线和空间等值线,从动态的角度分析了观测对网区及周边地震的反应.重力异常呈现下列特征:震前异常持续时间约2年左右,变化量值在几十微伽;异常主要形态表现为持续下降,震前转折;邢台5.4级地震和文安5.1级地震前网区重力场均出现了显著的、连续的高值异常区;网区内的文安5.1级地震的震中位于重力变化零等值线附近的高梯度带上.     

山西原平4.2级地震前的重力场异常特征

利用晋蒙重力测网2007—2009年的流动重力资料,研究了原平4.2级地震前的重力场变化特征。结果表明,以4.2级地震震中为界,流动重力呈现出东西向的负条带异常,而南部、北部均上升（正异常）的特征,震中附近的大部分测点点值在震前均出现上升—下降—恢复的变化特征,地震发生在重力恢复阶段。在远离震中区的内蒙重力测网并没有出现上述重力场变化特征。     

2013年四川芦山Ms7.0地震前的重力变化

利用川西地区2010-2012年期间的流动重力观测资料,系统分析了区域重力场变化及其与2013年4月20日四川芦山7.0级地震发生的关系.结果主要表明:①区域重力场异常变化与北东向龙门山断裂带南段和北北西向马尔康断裂带在空间上关系密切,反映沿该两断裂带(段)在2010-2012年期间发生了引起地表重力变化效应的构造活动或变形.②芦山7.0级地震前,测区内出现了较大空间范围的区域性重力异常,而震源区附近产生了局部重力异常,沿龙门山断裂带南段形成了重力变化高梯度带,其中,宝兴、天全、康定、泸定、石棉一带重力差异变化达100×10^-8m·s^-2以上;这些可能反映芦山地震前,区域及震源区附近均产生与该地震孕育、发生有关的构造运动或应力增强作用.③重力场差分动态演化图像和重力场累积变化动态图像均反映芦山7.0级地震孕育过程的最后2~3年出现较显著的流动重力异常变化,可视为该地震的中期前兆信息;本文第一作者等也曾基于该流动重力异常变化在芦山7.0级地震前做过一定程度的中期预测,尤其是地点预测.本文的例子再次证明流动重力观测能较好地捕捉到强震孕育发生过程中,特别是该过程最后阶段的重力异常变化信息.因此,区域流动重力场观测对未来强震的中-长期预测,尤其是在发震地点的判定上具有优势.     

山西原平4.2级地震前的重力场异常特征

利用晋蒙重力测网2007—2009年的流动重力资料，研究了原平4.2级地震前的重力场变化特征。结果表明，以4.2级地震震中为界，流动重力呈现出东西向的负条带异常，而南部、北部均上升（正异常）的特征，震中附近的大部分测点点值在震前均出现上升—下降—恢复的变化特征，地震发生在重力恢复阶段。在远离震中区的内蒙重力测网并没有出现上述重力场变化特征。     

地脉动在大震前的异常变化研究

利用2008年4月28日0时至5月12日13时许昌地震台地震连续波形资料,对安德列亚诺夫群岛7.0级、日本东海岸近海7.1级和汶川8.0级地震3次M≥7.0地震前地脉动变化情况进行了频域、振幅的量化分析,得出如下结论:3次地震前三分向都记录到了地脉动异常,水平向较垂直向明显;傅立叶谱0.2~0.3 Hz谱振幅值出现较大变化,进程上具有快速增大—达到最大值—下降—下降过程中发震的特征;地脉动异常分别在3次地震前2.3、3.3、2.9 d出现,属临震异常。     

2013年莱州M_S 4.6、2015年乳山M_S 4.6级地震前后重力场变化特征

利用山东测区2009—2015年的流动重力资料,采用绝对重力控制,相对重力联测的经典平差方法,给出了山东测区重力场动态变化图像,系统地分析了2013年11月23日莱州M_S4.6级、2015年5月22日乳山M_S4.6级地震前后重力场的空间变化和段差变化特点,并结合地质构造及机理探讨了重力变化特征与莱州地震、乳山地震之间的关系。结果表明:莱州M_S4.6级地震震区位于重力场差分变化零值线拐弯区域;乳山M_S4.6级地震震区位于重力场差分变化正异常的最大区域。另外,从跨断裂的段差变化可以看出,地震发震前后重力段差必然在断裂带两侧有一次明显的累积上升过程,且幅度较大,一般在转折下降时易发震。     

地脉动记录中台风扰动和低频波前兆信息的频带区别研究

通过对宽频带数字资料在昆仑山口西8.1级、汶川8.0级、民乐—山丹6.1级地震前地脉动幅度和频谱变化的研究,发现在震前几天地脉动有明显的扰动变化,初步认为是大震的低频波前兆异常。而强台风对地脉动也有类似的扰动现象。从频率域对比研究后初步认为:低频波前兆异常的可能频带范围是0.1~0.14 Hz,而强台风对地脉动的扰动频率范围是0.15~0.30 Hz。区别对待这两个频带,对跟踪强震临震异常有现实意义。     

On the synchronism in the events within the core and on the surface of the earth: the changes in the organic world and in the polarity of the geomagnetic field in the phanerozoic

The data on geomagnetic reversals are compared with the changes in the organic world and with the lower-mantle plumes. The times of the formation of plumes and the times of their appearance on the Earth’s surface relate to the intervals characterized by the different frequencies of geomagnetic reversals, i.e., there is no interrelation between the formation of plumes and the frequency of the changes in the geomagnetic field polarity. At the same time, a certain synchronism is observed between the frequency of the geomagnetic reversals and the boundaries of the biostratigraphic ages, i.e., the changes in the organic world in the long-period range. A hypothesis is proposed, which explains the change in the sign of the geomagnetic field by the combined effect of the irregular rotation of the internal core relative to the mantle and the changes in the slope angle of the axis of the Earth’s rotation, which, in turn, results in synchronous events on the Earth’s surface: the rates of changes in the organic world.     

On the maintenance of the axisymmetric part of the flow in the atmosphere

Summary The maintenance of the axisymmetric component of the flow in the atmosphere is investigated by means of a steady-state, quasi-geostrophic formulation of the meteorological equations. It is shown that the meridional variations in the time-averaged axisymmetric variables can be expressed as the sum of three contributions, one being due to the eddy heat transport, another to the eddy momentum transport, and a third to the convective-radiative equilibrium temperature which enters the problem through the specification of a Newtonian form of diabatic heating. The contributions by the large scale eddies are evaluated through the use of observed values for the eddy heat and momentum transports.The contributions from each of the three forcing mechanisms to the temperature and zonal wind fields are invstigated individually and found to be of about equal importance. The sum of the three contributions are also presented for the temperature, the zonal wind, the stream function associated with the mean meridional circulation and the corresponding vertical motion. Although the results fail to reproduce the main observed features of the lower stratosphere, they are found to be in good agreement with observations in the middle latitude troposphere. At any pressure level, for example, the computed mean zonal wind has a jet-like profile and the axis of the jet is found to slope to the south with height, as observed in the atmosphere.Based in part on a thesis submitted by the first author as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Ph.D. degree at the University of Michigan. — Publication No. 194 from the Department of Meteorology and Oceanography, The University of Michigan.     

On the gravimetric undulations of the geoid and the deflections of the vertical

Summary The author mentions the aims of the World-wide gravity project he established in the Ohio State University in Columbus, in 1950. He outlines the practical procedure of the gravimetric computations of the undulationsN and the vertical deflection components and and emphasizes that only by the global international cooperation and additional gravity observations at sea carried out during the last decade it has been possible to gather to Columbus the needed gravity material. Since there exist still large gravimetrically unsurveyed areas it is of vital significance to study what gravity anomalies are best to be used for these regions. The given figures concerning the accuracy of theN, and , estimated theoretically and obtained in practice, indicate that in the gravimetrically well surveyed parts of the world like in Europe and the United States we can get gravimetrically on basis of existing gravity material theN-values with accuracy of about 5–10 meters, and and with the accuracy of about 1. The geoid undulationsN are already computed in Columbus for more than 6000 points of the northern hemisphere. The sample maps show the interesting geoid of Europe and vicinity between the latitudes 60° and 30° and longitude 5° W and 30° E, drafted on basis of more than 1000N-values computed at the corners of 1°×1° squares. It is interesting to realize that the geoid undulations in all this area are positive, the extreme values being between 40 and 50 meters. The geophysical significance of the geoid maps of this kind is pointed out.     

太平洋中部地磁台11年周期变化的研究

综合APIA、HONOLULU、PAMATAI 3个地磁台三分量的11年周期变化的形态后,可定性地提出该变化源于内场。如内源为核幔边界的电涡流,则其中心点应位于3台之间。     

Magnetic stratigraphy of the Ordovician in the lower reach of the Kotuy River: the age of the Bysy-Yuryakh stratum and the rate of geomagnetic reversals on the eve of the superchron

Until recently, the existing data prevented the geophysicists from accurately dating the Bysy-Yuryakh stratum, which outcrops in the middle reach of the Kotuy River, constraining the time of its formation to a wide interval from the end of the Late Cambrian to the beginning of the Silurian. The obtained paleomagnetic data unambiguously correlate the Bysy-Yuryakh stratum to the Nyaian regional stage and constrain its formation, at least a considerable part of it, by the Tremadocian. This result perfectly agrees with the data on the Bysy-Yuryakh conodonts studied in this work and yields a spectacular example of the successful application of paleomagnetic studies in solving important tasks of stratigraphy and, correspondingly, petroleum geology. Within the Bysy-Yuryakh stratum, we revealed a large normal-polarity interval corresponding to the long (>1 Ma) period when the geomagnetic reversals were absent. This result, in combination with the data for the Tremadocian and Middle–Upper Cambrian sequences of the other regions, indicates that (1) the rate of occurrence of the geomagnetic reversals on the eve of the Ordovician Moyero superchron of reversed polarity was at most one reversal per Ma; (2) the superchron does not switch on instantaneously but is preceded by a certain gradual change in the operation conditions of the dynamo mechanism which, inter alia, manifests itself by the reduction of the frequency of geomagnetic reversals with the approach of the superchron. This finding supports the views according to which a process preparing the establishment of the superchrons takes place at the core–mantle boundary.     

On the variation in the geomagnetic dipole over the geological history of the Earth

The global database on the paleointensity, containing determinations of the virtual dipole moment (VDM) for a stable (normal) regime of the geomagnetic field in a time interval of up to 3.5 Ga, is supplemented by new VDM determinations and analyzed. The field generation process started no later than 3–3.5 Ga (earlier data are absent) at the stage of the Earth’s core formation. Since that time, the dipole value has differed from its present value by no more than an order of magnitude, and the deviations that have already been detected tend toward smaller values. The distribution of VDM values in the time interval 0–400 Ma is bimodal, which apparently reflects the presence of two different generation levels of the geomagnetic field distinguished by a relatively large value (close to the present field value) and a relatively small value (approximately half as large as the present value). The total duration of decreased VDM values appreciably exceeds that of increased VDM values (179.1 and 28.6 Myr, respectively). On the whole, data on the paleointensity do not contradict the hypothesis about the dipole nature of the field over the last 400 Myr; however, the number of determinations at high paleolatitudes is too small to draw decisive conclusions on the validity (or invalidity) of the dipole field approximation based solely on paleointensity data.     

Comparison Between the Nutations of the Planet Mars and the Nutations of the Earth

The nutations of the planets Mars andEarth are investigated and compared. Alarge number of interior structureparameters are involved in the nutationcomputations. The comparison between the observations and the computationsprovides several constraints on these parmeters andtherefore allows a better understanding of the physics of the interior of theplanet. For the Earth, the high precision of the observations of the nutationshas led to a very good determination of interior properties of the planet. ForMars, observations of nutations are not yet available, and we review how theamplitude of the Martian nutations depends on the hypotheses consideredfor its interior. Although Mars is very similar to the Earth, its interior is not well known;for example, we don't knowif its core is liquid or solid. Only if the core is liquid,the Free Core Nutation (FCN) normal mode exists and can alter the nutationswhich are close to the resonance. From the observed geoids, it is known thatboth planets are not in hydrostatic equilibrium. The departure is larger forMars than for the Earth, and consequently, the implication of considering a convective mantle instead of a mantle in hydrostatic equilibrium described byClairaut's equation for the initial equilibrium state of the planet is largeron the Martian nutations than on the Earth nutations. The consequences of theuncertainty in the core dimensions are also examined and shown to be of a veryhigh influence for Mars if the core is liquid, due to the potential changes inthe FCN resonance. The influence of the presence of an inner core, which isknown to exist for the Earth, could be more important for Mars than for theEarth if the inner core is large. Due to the presence of Tharsis on Mars, thetriaxiality of this planet has, additionally, larger effects than on Earth.     

Evolutionary Changes in the Configuration of the Magnetic Field of the Solar Corona in the Epoch of the Minimum

Geomagnetism and Aeronomy - The evolution of the magnetic configuration in the solar corona is studied. The curvature of the K-corona helmets obtained from an analytical approximation of the...