Tsunamigenic ionospheric hole

Yoshihiro Kakinami; Masashi Kamogawa; Yuichiro Tanioka; Shigeto Watanabe; Aditya Riadi Gusman; Jann Yenq Liu; Yasuyuki Watanabe; Toru Mogi

doi:10.1029/2011GL050159

Tsunamigenic ionospheric hole

Yoshihiro Kakinami, Masashi Kamogawa, Yuichiro Tanioka, Shigeto Watanabe, Aditya Riadi Gusman, Jann Yenq Liu, Yasuyuki Watanabe, Toru Mogi

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Traveling ionospheric disturbances generated by an epicentral ground/sea surface motion, ionospheric disturbances associated with Rayleigh-waves as well as post-seismic 4-minute monoperiodic atmospheric resonances and other-period atmospheric oscillations have been observed in large earthquakes. In addition, a giant tsunami after the subduction earthquake produces an ionospheric hole which is widely a sudden depletion of ionospheric total electron content (TEC) in the hundred kilometer scale and lasts for a few tens of minutes over the tsunami source area. The tsunamigenic ionospheric hole detected by the TEC measurement with Global Position System (GPS) was found in the 2011 M9.0 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku, the 2010 M8.8 Chile, and the 2004 M9.1 Sumatra earthquakes. This occurs because plasma is descending at the lower thermosphere where the recombination of ions and electrons is high through the meter-scale downwelling of sea surface at the tsunami source area, and is highly depleted due to the chemical processes.

Original language	English
Article number	L00G27
Journal	Geophysical Research Letters
Volume	39
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1029/2011GL050159
State	Published - 1 Jul 2012

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