On the Impact of Geospace Weather on the Occurrence of M7.8/M7.5 Earthquakes on 6 February 2023 (Turkey), Possibly Associated with the Geomagnetic Storm of 7 November 2022
Ouzounov D. Khachikyan G.
June 2024Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
Geosciences (Switzerland)
2024#14Issue 6
A joint analysis of solar wind, geomagnetic field, and earthquake catalog data showed that before the catastrophic M = 7.8 and M = 7.5 Kahramanmaras earthquake sequence on 6 February 2023, a closed strong magnetic storm occurred on 7 November 2022, SYM/H = −117 nT. The storm started at 08:04 UT. At this time, the high-latitudinal part of Turkey’s longitudinal region of future epicenters was located under the polar cusp, where the solar wind plasma would directly access the Earth’s environment. The time delay between storm onset and earthquake occurrence was ~91 days. We analyzed all seven strong (M7+) earthquakes from 1967 to 2020 to verify the initial findings. A similar pattern has been revealed for all events. The time delay between magnetic storm onset and earthquake occurrence varies from days to months. To continue these investigations, a retrospective analysis of seismic and other geophysical parameters just after preceded geomagnetic storms in the epicenter areas is desirable.
earthquake , geomagnetic storm onset , geospace weather , magnetic local time , polar cusp , solar wind
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Institute for Earth, Computing, Human and Observing, Chapman University, Orange, 92866, CA, United States
National Scientific Center for Seismological Observations and Research, Almaty, 050060, Kazakhstan
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National Scientific Center for Seismological Observations and Research
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