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Possible reason of ionospheric anomaly post the April 20, 2013, Mw = 6.6 China' Lushan earthquake: Applying two-dimensional principal component analysis (2DPCA) to two-dimensional total electron content (TEC)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2014

Jyh-Woei Lin*
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Science, National Cheng Kung University, No. 1 University Road, Tainan, Taiwan
*
Email address for correspondence: [email protected]

Abstract

In this study, two-dimensional principal component analysis (2DPCA) was used to determine the reason for the ionospheric two-dimensional total electron content (TEC) anomaly after China's Lushan earthquake at 00:02:47 UT on April 20, 2013 (Mw = 6.6). TEC data from 00:00 to 00:15 (UT) on April 20, 2013 were examined. The TEC anomaly was very intense 00:05 to 00:10 (UT) after the earthquake. One potential cause of the TEC anomaly, which might have been a density variance, is a rising acoustic shock wave, with speed of at least 1127.82, ms−1, resulting from the mainshock. The duration of the TEC anomaly was at least 5 min.

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