The main goal of this work is to critically review the IGS solution products and Precise Point Positioning (PPP) in order
to demonstrate their potential to contribute to studies of large earthquakes such as the one that devastated Southeast Asia
on December 26th, 2004. In view of a possible detection of the Mw 9.0 Sumatra-Andaman Islands Earthquake of December 26, 2004,
position solutions, ranging from intervals of years to one second, of four International GNSS Service (IGS) stations within
3000 km of the epicenter were examined. The IGS combined, cumulative solution product (IGS04P51), consisting of epoch and
station velocity solutions and based on data spans of several years prior to the earthquake, was used as a reference. Four
IGS combined weekly position solutions (igs04P1301-4), two weeks before and after the earthquake, were utilized for the weekly
solution resolution. PPP static and kinematic solutions with IGS Final combined orbits and clocks were used for the mean daily
and instantaneous 5-min and 1-sec epoch solutions, respectively. The most significant changes, detected by both weekly and
daily solutions occurred in longitude. The nearest IGS station ntus, about 1000 km east of the epicenter, moved westward about
15 mm, while the more distant Indian station iisc (∼ 2300 km NW from the epicenter), shifted about 15 mm eastward. In spite
of position errors caused by interpolation of the 5-min IGS clocks, the 1-sec solutions, based on separate data sets, available
only for two stations (iisc, dgar), still showed seismic surface waves, in particular at the Indian station iisc. Precise
daily IGS combined polar motion and length-of-day products, after correcting for the atmospheric effects, also likely detected,
statistically significant, anomalistic excitations on December 26, 2004 that could be caused by this great earthquake. 相似文献