Journal
IEICE COMMUNICATIONS EXPRESS
Volume 7, Issue 3, Pages 71-76Publisher
IEICE-INST ELECTRONICS INFORMATION COMMUNICATIONS ENG
DOI: 10.1587/comex.2017XBL0168
Keywords
HTS-SQUID; magnetometer; geomagnetic observation; high-resolution
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- JSPS KAKENHI [26289348, 24560507, 23686130]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [26289348, 24560507, 23686130] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Our research group reported successful observation of co-faulting Earth's magnetic field changes because of piezomagnetic effects caused by earthquake tremors during the 2008 Iwate-Miyagi Nairiku earthquake of M7.2 using a geomagnetic observation system with flux-gate magnetometers. This is an important finding: electromagnetic fields propagate from a source to an observation site at the light speed in the crustal materials. Further earthquake detection efforts can lead us to a new system for super-early warning of earthquake detection with the geomagnetic signal. However, the observed result with the earthquake was suggested that the geomagnetic field change accompanying fault movement, whose sources are the piezomagnetic effects, is very small and short term. Therefore, to develop an extremely important high-resolution magnetometer system, we first conducted long-term precise geomagnetic observations using a high-temperature superconductor based superconducting quantum-interference device (HTS-SQUID) magnetometer system. The HTS-SQUID magnetometer system had never been used for high-resolution geomagnetic observations outdoors. Since March 2012, we have observed geomagnetic field using the HTS-SQUID magnetometer at Iwaki observation site (IWK) in Fukushima, Japan. Comparison between the introduced HTS-SQUID magnetometer and conventional flux-gate clarified that the HTS-SQUID magnetometer in our system has higher resolution of magnetic field observation.
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