Source current mechanism of the daily ratio of geomagnetism before the ML4.6 earthquake in Huidong, Guangdong province
Received date: 2023-05-15
Online published: 2024-09-29
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About 50 km away from Dayawan Nuclear Power Station, a ML4.6 earthquake occurred at the Shanwei-Chaozhou fault on 11 March 2022. There was an earthquake as large as M6.0 occurred in same site. In this paper, based on the geomagnetic observation data of 10 geomagnetic stations in coastal areas of South China, the integration effect of the diurnal variation distortion period was used to quantify the distribution of anomalies.we discussed the degree of interference and the decisive factors in the calculation according to the prediction range of the day-to-day ratio threshold, and the internal source ring current is used as the source to explain the source current mechanism related to the geomagnetic day-to-day ratio anomaly. The results show that filtering the geomagnetic station data with large noise interference can effectively remove its noise, improving the credibility of the day-to-day ratio calculation. It is proposed that the diurnal variation amplitude of the geomagnetic vertical component is mainly controlled by the Sq current system, which may be related to the space weather activity of the ionosphere and is obviously dependent on local time. Estimating the skin depth of the current change in the three-layer conductor and combining with the results of other geophysical explorations, we believe that the position where the ring current is generated may be located at the most intense exchange between the asthenosphere hot material upwelling to the lithosphere material, about 100 km underground. Therefore, we calculate the induced magnetic field distribution caused by the ring current superimposed on the surface at a depth of 100 km. The magnetic field generated by this internal source current weakens the vertical geomagnetic field caused by the Sq current. Themagnitudeofthe Z-component changes day by day, which eventually leads to an anomaly in the day-to-day ratio of the geomagnetic field.
YuXin BAO , JingHui LU , XiaoHui LI , Xin ZHANG , DaQing CHEN , JianGe WANG , YuFen LUO , ZhengLei CHEN . Source current mechanism of the daily ratio of geomagnetism before the ML4.6 earthquake in Huidong, Guangdong province[J]. Progress in Geophysics, 2024 , 39(4) : 1358 -1368 . DOI: 10.6038/pg2024HH0095
图1 地磁台站分布和地震信息(a)区域地磁台站分布;(b)惠东及其近海小震分布和震源机制解;(c)1999—2022年小震的震源深度分布. Fig 1 Distribution of epicenter and geomagnetic stations (a) Distribution of regional geomagnetic stations; (b) Distribution and focal mechanism solution of small earthquakes near Huidong; (c) Focal depth distribution of small earthquakes from 1999 to 2022. |

表1 由邻近两天作幅度补偿的结果Table 1 Results of the amplitude compensation from adjacent two days |
| 台站 | 原始/nT | 补偿后/nT | 幅度差/nT | 面积差/nT (2050~2450 min) | 面积差/nT (1600~2500 min) |
| 会昌 | 8.883 | 21.338 | 12.455 | 1906.307 | 2300.007 |
| 邵武 | 12.044 | 21.707 | 9.663 | 1551.184 | 1883.454 |
| 永安 | 12.687 | 23.684 | 10.997 | 2216.585 | 1545.666 |
| 泉州 | 12.223 | 21.985 | 9.762 | 1450.091 | 1824.369 |
| 河池 | 13.842 | 24.888 | 11.046 | 1434.406 | 1296.980 |
| 邕宁 | 13.189 | 22.759 | 9.569 | 984.637 | 1128.077 |
| 邵阳 | 12.150 | 21.930 | 9.780 | 1768.702 | 2203.850 |
| 新丰江 | 9.595 | 21.126 | 11.531 | 1521.337 | 2792.092 |
| 肇庆 | 10.157 | 21.974 | 11.817 | 1446.939 | 1776.124 |
| 琼中 | 18.003 | 22.682 | 4.680 | 72.990 | 758.107 |
表2 幅度补偿后内外源场分离的结果Table 2 Results of separation of internal and external source fields after amplitude compensation |
| 台站 | 幅度差/nT | 外源场/nT | 内源场/nT | 面积差/nT | 外源场/nT | 内源场/nT |
| 会昌 | 12.455 | 8.304 | 4.152 | 2300.007 | 1533.338 | 766.669 |
| 邵武 | 9.663 | 6.442 | 3.221 | 1883.454 | 1255.636 | 627.818 |
| 永安台 | 10.997 | 7.331 | 3.666 | 1545.666 | 1030.444 | 515.222 |
| 泉州 | 9.762 | 6.508 | 3.254 | 1824.369 | 1216.246 | 608.123 |
| 河池 | 11.046 | 7.364 | 3.682 | 1296.980 | 864.653 | 432.327 |
| 邕宁 | 9.569 | 6.380 | 3.190 | 1128.077 | 752.051 | 376.026 |
| 邵阳 | 9.780 | 6.520 | 3.260 | 2203.850 | 1469.233 | 734.617 |
| 新丰江 | 11.531 | 7.687 | 3.844 | 2792.092 | 1861.395 | 930.697 |
| 肇庆 | 11.817 | 7.878 | 3.939 | 1776.124 | 1184.083 | 592.041 |
| 琼中 | 4.680 | 3.120 | 1.560 | 758.107 | 505.404 | 252.702 |
图6 幅度补偿改正及其幅度示意图(a)中黑线和蓝线表示日变幅度异常日的幅度远小于补偿后的幅度;(b)中展示了400 min跨度内的幅度补偿值;(c)(d)分别为地磁日变化面积和补偿幅度差的平面分布. Fig 6 Schematic diagram of amplitude compensation correction and its amplitude The black line and blue line in(a)indicate that the amplitude of the abnormal day of the daily variation amplitude is much smaller than the amplitude after compensation; (b)Shows the amplitude compensation value within the span of 400 min; (c)(d)are the distribution of diurnal variation of geomagnetism (a) and the compensation amplitude difference (b), respectively. |


R表示环电流的半径,z为环电流所在的深度,I为电流的强度,μ0为真空中磁导率.图7 处于地幔顶部深度内源环电流引起的垂向磁场Bz值(a) 环电流产生地面垂向磁场的示意图,Vs速度剖面改绘自Deng等(2019);(b)内源环电流产生地面垂向磁场的二维分布, R表示环电流的半径,z为环所在的深度;(c)内源环电流与惠东ML4.6级地震、区域构造环境的关系,底图剖面改绘自Dong等(2020). Fig 7 The vertical magnetic field Bz value caused by the source current at the top of the mantle (a) Schematic diagram of the vertical magnetic field generated by the ring current, and the Vs velocity profile is adapted from Deng et al. (2019); (b) The two-dimensional distribution of the vertical magnetic field on the ground generated by the endogenous ring current; R represents the radius of the ring current, and the z is the depth of the ring; (c) The relationship between the endogenous ring current and the ML4.6 earthquake and the regional tectonic environment, the bottom map section is redrawn from Dong et al. (2020). |
数据来源于中国地震台网中心(国家地震科学数据中心) (http://data.earthquake.cn),感谢审稿专家提出的修改意见.
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