Variations of Electrical Characteristics of the Surface Atmosphere during Magnetic Storms

Doklady Earth Sciences - Variations in the electric field and atmospheric current in the surface atmosphere at middle latitudes during 58 strong magnetic storms that occurred from 2016 to 2019 are...     

Acoustic Noise in Moscow during the Covid-19 Quarantine Period in 2020

Doklady Earth Sciences - This paper addresses the results of instrumental observation of acoustic oscillations in the atmosphere above the city of Moscow during the COVID-19 quarantine period....     

Manifestation of Singlets of the Basic Spheroidal Mode of the Earth 0S2 in Geomagnetic Variations

The results of instrumental observations have shown that the spectra of geomagnetic variations exhibit a quasi-harmonic component, the frequency of which is close to the basic spheroidal mode of the Earth ₀S₂. In periods 15 days long after three large earthquakes and in the absence of strong magnetic disturbances, the fine structure of this mode in geomagnetic variations is identified in the form of singlets. The frequencies of these singlets are similar to the theoretical values calculated using an ideal elastic isotropic model of the Earth of spherical symmetric form without its rotation.

     

Analysis of Methods for Estimating the Energy of Sources of Acoustic-Gravity Waves in the Earth’s Atmosphere

Izvestiya, Physics of the Solid Earth - Abstract—A comparative analysis is presented of the approaches and methods for estimating the energy of the sources of acoustic-gravity waves (AGW) in...     

Geomagnetic field variations in seismic waves traveling across a fault

The results of regular instrumental observations over geomagnetic field variations in the zones of influence of tectonic faults during movement of seismic waves of varied intensity are presented. It has been shown that seismic waves with an amplitude more than 5–10 μm/s, traveling across the fault zone, always produced geomagnetic field variations. At weaker seismic disturbances, geomagnetic field variations are of the “glimmer” character, and the relative frequency of appearance of the effect drops as the seismic wave amplitude decreases. The quantitative dependence between the maximal value of the full vector of variations in geomagnetic field induction in a fault zone and the amplitude of the seismic disturbance has been found for the first time.     

Radon emanation as an indicator of the intensity of Intergeospheric interactions at the Earth’s crust-atmosphere interface

The results of measurements of the volumetric activity of subsurface radon Rare given for several sections of the Earth’s crust located within the central part of the East European Platform. The influence of tectonic structures on the spatial zonality of radon emanation and the intensity of its temporal variations is shown. The temporal variations in radon emanation are characterized by periodicity with periods of approximately a day, as well as of 4, 14, and 29 days, and, as correlation analysis shows, they are determined by the cyclic recurrence of tidal deformations and by cyclonic processes in the atmosphere. The high correlation of the mean values of the volumetric activity of subsurface radon with the value of atmospheric pressure is established. The dependence of the volumetric activity of subsurface radon and its temporal variations on the depth within the range of depths 0.8–11.5 m is determined. As a result of laboratory experiments, the nonlinear nature of the dependence of radon emanation on the frequency of vibration action is established. For granites, the intensity of radon emanation is maximal at frequencies of 16 and 32 Hz. The results of complex measurements of the microseismic background and the volumetric activity of subsurface radon carried out in the region of the Nelidovo-Ryazan tectonic structure demonstrate the high correlation between the volumetric activity of subsurface radon and the relative amplitude of the quasi-monochromatic component of the microseismic background with a peak frequency of 16.5 Hz.     

Peculiarities of geomagnetic variations in the central part of the Russian platform

The instrumental observations of geomagnetic variations in the middle latitudes are analyzed. The main periodicities are revealed in the background local variations of the magnetic field of the Earth. Besides the 27–29-day variations, which are associated with the rotation of the Sun around its axis, also the harmonic components with periods of ～1, 6–8, 13–14, 57–60 days, and about a year are identified. It is shown that the periodicities in the background variations are both regular and sporadic. The peculiarities in the time behavior of some spectral components of geomagnetic variations are established.     

Precessional motions of structural blocks of the Earth’s crust

Instrumental observations revealed a new type of motion previously not described in the literature, the precessional motions in the structural blocks of the Earth’s crust. The precession-nutation motions are caused largely by a complex response of a structural block and the adjacent tectonic structure, acting as a discontinuous zone between blocks, to tidal deformation. Irregular precession with a period of about one day complicated by the half a day period nutation defines a complex loading pattern characteristic of the internal structure of faults adjacent to the block.