On a reported effect in ionospheric TEC around the time of the 6 April 2009 L'Aquila earthquake

Masci, Fabrizio; Thomas, Jeremy N.; Secan, James A.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-1461-2017

Articles | Volume 17, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-1461-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-1461-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 9

Research article

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06 Sep 2017

Research article |

| 06 Sep 2017

On a reported effect in ionospheric TEC around the time of the 6 April 2009 L'Aquila earthquake

Fabrizio Masci, Jeremy N. Thomas, and James A. Secan

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Preprint (discussion started on 16 Feb 2017)

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SC1: 'Some errors in discussion paper', Fabrizio Masci, 17 Feb 2017
RC1: 'The paper o Masci et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 04 Mar 2017
- AC1: 'On the Ref#1's comment RC1', Fabrizio Masci, 14 Mar 2017
RC2: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #2, 04 Apr 2017
- AC2: 'Response to Ref#2’s review', Fabrizio Masci, 12 Apr 2017
RC3: 'Earthquake precursors', Anonymous Referee #3, 27 Apr 2017
- AC3: 'Thank you for your and corrections', Fabrizio Masci, 28 Apr 2017

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (further review by Editor) (21 May 2017) by Filippos Vallianatos

AR by Fabrizio Masci on behalf of the Authors (26 May 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (further review by Editor) (24 Jun 2017) by Filippos Vallianatos

AR by Fabrizio Masci on behalf of the Authors (17 Jul 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (02 Aug 2017) by Filippos Vallianatos

AR by Fabrizio Masci on behalf of the Authors (03 Aug 2017)

Short summary

In a recent paper, the authors report the analysis of ionospheric TEC data from GPS measurements around the time of the 6 April 2009 L'Aquila earthquake. According to them, an anomalous change in TEC difference from two GPS receivers in central Italy may be explained as related to the earthquake. We have conducted our own independent analysis using the same GPS data. We have shown that in TEC difference there is no evidence of actual seismogenic effects close to the time of L'Aquila earthquake.