NHESS Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences NHESS Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci. 1684-9981 Copernicus Publications Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/nhess-9-1111-2009 Further study on the role of atmospheric gravity waves on the seismo-ionospheric perturbations as detected by subionospheric VLF/LF propagation Muto F. 1 2 Kasahara Y. 1 2 Hobara Y. 1 2 Hayakawa M. 2 3 Rozhnoi A. 4 Solovieva M. 4 Molchanov O. A. 4 Department of Electronic Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications, 1-5-1 Chofugaoka, Chofu Tokyo 182-8585, Japan Research Station on Seismo Electromagnetics, The University of Electro-Communications, Chofu Tokyo, Japan Advanced Wireless Communications Research Center, The University of Electro-Communications, Chofu Tokyo, Japan Institute of Physics of the Earth, Moscow, Russia 14 07 2009 9 4 1111 1118 Copyright: © 2009 F. Muto et al. 2009 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is available from https://nhess.copernicus.org/articles/9/1111/2009/nhess-9-1111-2009.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from https://nhess.copernicus.org/articles/9/1111/2009/nhess-9-1111-2009.pdf

As the target earthquake we have taken a huge earthquake (EQ) named Miyagi-oki earthquake on 16 August 2005 (with magnitude of 7.2) and we have analyzed the 4 month period including the date of this EQ. In addition to our previous analysis on the nighttime average amplitude (trend) and nighttime fluctuation, we have proposed the use of fluctuation power spectra in the frequency rage of atmospheric gravity waves (period=10 min to 100 min) as a third parameter of subionospheric VLF/LF propagation characteristics. Then it is found that this third parameter would be of additional importance in confirming the presence of seismo-ionospheric perturbations. Finally, we have discovered an important role of lunar tidal effect in the VLF/LF data, which appears one and two months before this large EQ.

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