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- Title
Earth's background free oscillations
- Authors
Suda N; Nawa K; Fukao Y
- Abstract
Earth's free oscillations were considered to be transient phenomena occurring after large earthquakes. An analysis of records of the IDA (International Deployment of Accelerometers) gravimeter network shows that Earth is freely oscillating at an observable level even in seismically inactive periods. The observed oscillations are the fundamental spheroidal modes at frequencies between 2 and 7 millihertz. Numerical modeling indicates that these incessant excitations cannot be explained by stacked effects of a large number of small earthquakes. The observed "background" free oscillations represent some unknown dynamic process of Earth.
- Publication
Science (New York, N.Y.), 1998, Vol 279, Issue 5359, p2089
- ISSN
1095-9203
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1126/science.279.5359.2089