Correlation between large-scale motions in the liquid core of the Earth and geomagnetic jerks, earthquakes, and variations in the Earth’s length of day


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Abstract

We consider the correlation between seismicity, variations in the length of day, and geomagnetic jerks. We found that the jerks precede with in-phase variations in the number of strong earthquakes with М > 6.5 and the rate of the length of day in the range of periods of 5–8 years.

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M. B. Gokhberg

Schmidt Joint Institute of Physics of the Earth

Email: pmsk7@mail.ru
Russian Federation, ul. Bolshaya Gruzinskaya 10, Moscow, 123810

E. V. Olshanskaya

Schmidt Joint Institute of Physics of the Earth

Email: pmsk7@mail.ru
Russian Federation, ul. Bolshaya Gruzinskaya 10, Moscow, 123810

O. G. Chkhetiani

Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics; Institute for Space Research

Email: pmsk7@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Pyzhevskii per. 3, Moscow, 109017; ul. Profsoyuznaya 84/32, Moscow, 117342

S. L. Shalimov

Schmidt Joint Institute of Physics of the Earth; Institute for Space Research

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Email: pmsk7@mail.ru
Russian Federation, ul. Bolshaya Gruzinskaya 10, Moscow, 123810; ul. Profsoyuznaya 84/32, Moscow, 117342

O. M. Barsukov

Schmidt Joint Institute of Physics of the Earth

Email: pmsk7@mail.ru
Russian Federation, ul. Bolshaya Gruzinskaya 10, Moscow, 123810

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