PRE SEISMIC ANOMALIES REVEALED IN THE AREA WHERE THE ABRUZZO EARTHQUAKE (M = 6.3) OCCURRED ON APRIL 6, 2009
Abstract
Since 1996, the intensity of CLT (f=189 kHz, Sicily, Italy), MCO (f=216 kHz, France) and CZE (f=270 kHz, Czech Republic) broadcast signals has been collected with a ten minutes sampling rate by a receiver operating in a place located about 13 km far from the epicenter of the Abruzzo earthquake (M=6.3, April 6, 2009). During March 2009, the old receiver was substituted with a new one for measuring, with one minute sampling rate, the intensity of five VLF signals and five LF signals radiated by transmitters located in different zone of Europe. Two of the previous transmitters are included among them. In the period March 31-April 1 the intensity of the MCO radio signal dropped and this drop was observed only in this signal. The possibility that the drop was connected to problems in the transmitter or in the receiver was investigated and excluded. So, the drop indicates a defocusing of the radiated signal. Since none particular meteorological situation along the path transmitter-receiver happened, the defocusing must be related to other causes. The possibility that it is a precursor of the Abruzzo earthquake is presented. Beside, the flow rate of a natural spring located in the same place of the receiver is being sampled from 1992. During September-October 2008 the flow rate was abnormal with respect to all the previous periods. Also this anomaly takes the shape of a precursor of the Abruzzo earthquake. Probably, it is mainly related to the seismic sequence that started in the zone in the middle of January 2009 and that lasted up to the earthquake.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2009
- Bibcode:
- 2009AGUFM.U14A..06B
- Keywords:
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- 1829 HYDROLOGY / Groundwater hydrology;
- 6964 RADIO SCIENCE / Radio wave propagation