Bhardwaj, Arti and Gupta, Ankit and Ahmed, Qadeer and Singh, Anshul and Gupta, Sumedha and Sarkhel, S. and Sunil Krishna, M. V. and Pallamraju, Duggirala and Pant, Tarun and Upadhayaya, A. K. (2023) Signature of Y-forking in ionogram traces observed at low-mid latitude Indian station, New Delhi, during the earthquake events of 2020: ionosonde observations. Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 10. ISSN 2296-987X
![[thumbnail of pubmed-zip/versions/1/package-entries/fspas-10-1170288/fspas-10-1170288.pdf]](http://research.manuscritpub.com/style/images/fileicons/text.png)
pubmed-zip/versions/1/package-entries/fspas-10-1170288/fspas-10-1170288.pdf - Published Version
Download (71MB)
Abstract
We have examined ionospheric response to eleven earthquake events measuring less than four on the Richter scale during the year 2020 that occurred in the vicinity of New Delhi (28.6°N, 77.2°E, 42.4°N dip). We have used ionogram traces, manually scaled critical ionospheric layer parameters using SAO explorer obtained from Digisonde along with the O(1D) airglow observations from a multi-wavelength all-sky airglow imager installed at Hanle, Ladakh, India (32.7°N, 78.9°E, 24.1°N dip). Perceptible ionospheric perturbations 2–9 days prior to these earthquake events resulting in more than 250% variation in electron density are observed. We found distortion of ionogram trace in the form of Y forking majorly at New Delhi on the precursor day and after the earthquake event. Traces of Y forked ionograms were also observed at Ahmedabad (23°N, 72°E, 15°N dip) and Trivandrum (8.5°N, 76.9°E, 0.5°N dip). These Y-forked ionograms are one of the first observations during any earthquake events and are looked at as a signature of Travelling Ionospheric Disturbances (TIDs).
Item Type: | Article |
---|---|
Subjects: | Science Repository > Physics and Astronomy |
Depositing User: | Managing Editor |
Date Deposited: | 06 Nov 2023 03:55 |
Last Modified: | 06 Nov 2023 03:55 |
URI: | http://research.manuscritpub.com/id/eprint/3334 |