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Proceedings of the 9th International Conference PROBLEMS OF GEOCOSMOS St.Petersburg, Petrodvorets, October8-12, 2012. Editors: V.Troyan, V.Semenov, M.Kubyshkina pp. 142-145.

ON THE POLE TIDE EXCITATION OF SEISMICITY V. Gorshkov and M. Vorotkov
Central (Pulkovo's) astronomical observatory of RAS, SPb, 196140, Russia, e-mail: vigor@gao.spb.ru
Abstract. The NEIC seismic database up to 2012.0 was used for search of pole tide influence on the intensity of seismic process. The pole tide is generated by the centrifugal effect of polar motion on the chandler and annual frequencies (0.84 ­ 1.0 cpy) with the radial displacement up to 2 cm. Their beat frequency is equal to 0.16 cpy. These frequencies (for chandler wobble in doubled frequency) were revealed in series of seismic intensity calculated for the 0.05 year time span. These long-period components in seismic intensity are robust to the change of interval (up to 0.2 year) and to minimal used magnitude (from 3.0 to 4.5). It is known that seismic failure time tn in any region is depend on energy of seismic event tn ~ E1/3 and hence depend on seismic magnitude. For magnitude up to 5.5 tn is usually equal from one to some years. This failure time correlates with the oscillating stress. The degree of correlation between failure time and the phase of the driving stress depends on the amplitude and frequency of the stress oscillation and on the stressing rate. So pole tide influence on the intensity of seismic process could be revealed in the regions where its amplitude is maximal (latitudes 30° - 60° in both hemispheres). The response of seismic intensity on the value of pole tide radial displacement was researched for various zone of seismic activity. It was revealed that pole tide influence on seismicity is approximately the same for various seismic zones and is detectable for phase of pole tide with radial displacement more than 6 mm. The dependence on minimal used magnitude and depth of seismic event was not revealed.

INTRODUCTION The intensity of seismic events has some low-frequency regularity marked in many papers (Gamburtsev et al., 2004; Levin, Sasorova, 2002). The spectrum of these variations of seismic intensity has significant lines in the pole tide frequency band as it was revealed and investigated in our previous paper (Gorshkov, Vorotkov, 2004). The direct pole tide modulation of slow sleep seismic events was researched in (Zheng-Kang Shen et.al., 2007) for Pacific subduction zones. The majority of searched in this paper events (14 from 20) were closely associated with maximal phase of pole tide for event coordinates. The power spectrum of Gorshkov, Vorotkov, 2004). spectrum estimations but the explanation of these spectrum earthquake series preliminary averaged in 30 days are shown i n Fig.1 (from Other time span for averaging and magnitude cutting were also used for ~ 6 and ~0.6 years lines are always present at spectrum. The more probable lines is display of pole tide excitation of seismicity.
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Figure 1. Low-frequency band of power (1973 -2010). There are used all events averaging before spectrum calculation is red of them are probably excited by pole

spectrum of intensity of seismic events from NEIC data-base with magnitudes M > 3. The time interval for seismic events equal 30 days. The marked picks in spectrum are in years, the tide.


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Figure 2. Real motion of instantaneous Pole {Xp,Yp} in 1996-2000 years (colored) and slow drift of mean Pole {Xm,Ym} from the beginning of International Polar Motion Service (1896). The Pole tide is generated by the centrifugal effect of Polar Motion PM = Xp ­ iYp. The trend (mean) components of PM have to be subtracted before assessment of Pole tide effect: {X,Y} = {Xp ­ Xm ,Yp - Ym} {Xcw + Xan ,Ycw + Yan}. Both components of Polar motion are shown in Fig.2. The residual series {X,Y} i two PM components ­ the most power Chandler wobble (CW) with period Pcw variation Pan 1 year. The mean amplitude of CW is equal approximately 0.2 (200 half. The beat variation of PM Pbat = PcwPan /(Pcw -Pan) 6 year is also observable as it
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s mainly composed of 1.2 year and annual mas) and annual is a can be seen in Fig.3.

Figure 3. Black and red curves are {X,Y} series and blue is variation of PM polhode radius. The centrifugal perturbation in the potential V because of PM (Wahr, 1985) is equal: V (r,,) = - 0.5 2 r 2 sin2 (Xcos + Ysin), where - the mean angular velocity of rotation of the Earth, r - geocentric distance to the station, , longitude and colatitude (/2 - ) of the station. The radial displacement Sr (positive upwards) due to V is equal: Sr = h2 V/g = -32 sin2 (Xcos + Ysin) mm, where h2 - loading Love's number and g ­ mean equatorial gravity. It is obvious from Fig.3 that amplitude excursion variations of Sr didn't exceed 2 cm. Why we can see pole to 1 kPa according (Zheng-Kang Shen et al., 2007)) but it moon tide (solid Earth tide) which cause daily stress oscillat of {X,Y} did not exceed 400 mas and hence tide trigger earthquake effect (stress changed up is almost impossible to reveal more power sunion in the crust, on the order of several kPa?


DATA AND METHOD The answer that question is obvious at a glance ­ the most power components of solid Earth's tide are semi -diurnal and diurnal with amplitudes up to several tens cm but which have very short period in c o mp a r i s o n w i t h f a i l u r e t i me t n ( t h e me a n t i me f o r e a r t h q u a k e p r e p a r a t i o n ) . It i s k n o wn ( S a d o v s k y , Pisarenko, 1991) that the failure time in any region is proportional tn ~ E 1/3 and hence for magnitude up t o M ~ 5 , t n < 1 0 y e a r s . T h e l o n g t i me s u n - mo o n t i d e c o mp o n e n t s ( P > 1 y e a r ) h a v e t h e a mp l i t u d e s some mm and couldn't excite earthquake trigger effect. This problem was accurately explored in (Beeler, Lockner, 2003) on the base of laboratory experiments in which faults are loaded by the combined action of a constant stressing rate, intended to simulate tectonic loading, and a small sinusoidal stress, analogous to the Earth tides. Correlation that is consistent with stress threshold failure models, e.g., Coulomb failure, results when the period of stress oscillation exceeds a characteristic time tn. The degree of correlation between tn and the phase of the driving stress depends on the amplitude and frequency of the stress oscillation and on the stressing rate. When the period of the oscillating stress is less than tn, the correlation is not consistent with threshold failure models, and much higher stress amplitudes are required. We try in this work to assess the trace of pole tide influence for various seismic regions by using global seismic data base NEIC (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/neic/) and Earth's rotation parameters from IERS (http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eop-pc/). There was used for research only region with latitudes between 30­60° in both Earth's hemispheres because of small influence of pole tide (Sr) in other zones. The main method was to search the dependence of quantity of seismic events on phase of pole tide radial component N(Sr) after normalization by random (even) distribution of seismic event for each region N/Ne. This dependence is strongly conditioned by presence of for- and aftershocks in earthquake series as they give in the same time interval amplification of events. So we try as far as it's possible to eliminate for- and aftershocks in selected seismic region. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION The result of research of these dependences for some regions are presented in Fig. 4-6.
N/NEV 25 20 15 10 5 0 -15 -10 -5 0 5 10 15 Sr (mm)
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Figure 4. Normalized on the even distribution quantity of earthquake in dependence on pole tide phase in Japan region (subduction zone). Left ­ with presence of aftershocks sequence of Tohoku earthquake. One can see that the influence of pole tide triggering effect excitation of earthquakes rises with amplitude of Sr in the majority of region. In addition as it can be seen for Japan region (Fig.4) the large earthquake and its aftershocks fall on PT phase with amplitude near and larger 0.5 cm. In Fig. 6 with overall hemispheric results one can see double-peak smoothed red curves which reproduce global pole tide triggering effect in symmetric position between 5 and 10 mm of Sr for upward and downward motion of pole tide waves.

We can conclude that PT influence on seismic intensity begins observable when phase of vertical component of pole tide exceed 0.5 cm. So it will be advisable to search more detail the influence of excited by pole tide stress in various zones of seismicity.


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Figure 6. The same as Fig.4 for whole hemisphere North and South. Red curves are smoothed ones.

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