Abstract
A megathrust earthquake with Mw 9.0 occurred in the North-western Pacific Ocean on March 11, 2011. From the energetic particle flux from WIND, CLUSTER and GOES in different L locations, some variation can be found around the earthquake. Among the three satellites, WIND is used to identify solar activity, and GOES is used to detect the changes from ground source. And during the same period, a magnetic storm with intensity -80nT occur. In order to validate the particle flux variation, multi-parameters relationship is compared. The results show that: (1) all energetic fluxes variation can reflect the solar activity. The far ones are connected with the F10.7 and the near ones are connected with Dst/Kp. (2) The energetic particle fluxes give a scarp change in all energy bands at the beginning coupling period and when the space recovers to be quite, the fluxes will have a long decreasing tail from high to low energy. (3) The coseismic and after effect have been detected in GOES and the pre-seismic emission should exist because the bigger decreasing fluxes in GOES are responding to the period with smaller Kp.
Highlights
At 05:46 (UTC) On March 11, 2011, an M9.0 earthquake occurred near Miyagi city (142.6° E, 38.1° N), off the east coast of Honshu, Tohoku area, Japan
After more and more attentions were paid on the relation between particles and earthquakes in terms of a number of parameters, including time difference, spatial shift according to case study, statistical analysis or some modeling based on wave-particle coupling theory [Voronov et al, 1990; Galper et al, 1992, 1995; Pustovetov et al, 1993; Aleksandrin et al, 2003; Sgrigna et al, 2005; Huang et al, 2010; Li et al, 2012; Fidani, 2010; Zhang et al, 2013; Wang et al, 2014]
The higher altitudes data from WIND, Cluster II and Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) are collected, and the time period are set around the occurrence of the M9.0 Tohoku earthquake
Summary
At 05:46 (UTC) On March 11, 2011, an M9.0 earthquake occurred near Miyagi city (142.6° E, 38.1° N), off the east coast of Honshu, Tohoku area, Japan. After more and more attentions were paid on the relation between particles and earthquakes in terms of a number of parameters, including time difference, spatial shift according to case study, statistical analysis or some modeling based on wave-particle coupling theory [Voronov et al, 1990; Galper et al, 1992, 1995; Pustovetov et al, 1993; Aleksandrin et al, 2003; Sgrigna et al, 2005; Huang et al, 2010; Li et al, 2012; Fidani, 2010; Zhang et al, 2013; Wang et al, 2014] All these studies showed that before strong earthquakes, energetic particle flux would be affected from 300 to 2000 km altitudes [Wang et al, 2014; Zhang et al, 2013]. The higher altitudes data from WIND, Cluster II and GOES are collected, and the time period are set around the occurrence of the M9.0 Tohoku earthquake
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