Response of the ionosphere to the Baltic Sea earthquake of 21 September 2004

Acta Geophysica

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 90-101

  Krankowski, Andrzej ^a   Zakharenkova, Irina E ^b   Shagimuratov, Irk I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARMIA AND MAZURY IN OLSZTYN   (Poland)

^b IMMANUEL KANT BALTIC FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c PUSHKOV INSTITUTE OF TERRESTRIAL MAGNETISM   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Earthquakes; Ionosphere; Seismo ionospheric anomalies; TEC

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; ELECTRONS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; SEISMOLOGY;

SEISMO-IONOSPHERIC PRECURSORS; TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT (TEC);

IONOSPHERE;

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; ELECTRON DENSITY; GPS; IONOSPHERE; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMOLOGY;

EID: 33746907841     PISSN: 18956572     EISSN: 18957455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s11600-006-0008-9     Document Type: Article

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