IR spectral analysis for the diagnostics of crust earthquake precursors

  1. Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov State University, Leninskie gory, 119991 Moscow, Russia
  2. Institute of Physics of the Earth of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Bolshaya Gruzinskaya 10, 123995 Moscow, Russia
  3. Institute of Cosmophysical Research and Radio Wave Propagation, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 684034 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia
  4. Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Schlossgartenstr. 9, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany

Some possible physical processes are analysed that cause, under the condition of additional ionisation in a pre-breakdown electric field, emissions in the infrared (IR) interval. The atmospheric transparency region of the IR spectrum at wavelengths of 7–15 μm is taken into account. This transparency region corresponds to spectral lines of small atmospheric constituents like CH4, CO2, N2O, NO2, NO, and O3. The possible intensities of the IR emissions observable in laboratories and in nature are estimated. The acceleration process of the electrons in the pre-breakdown electrical field before its adhesion to the molecules is analyzed. For daytime conditions, modifications of the adsorption spectra of the scattered solar emissions are studied; for nighttime, variations of emission spectra may be used for the analysis.


R. M. Umarkhodgaev, V. A. Liperovsky, V. V. Mikhailin, V. V. Bogdanov, C.-V. Meister, E. V. Liperovskaya. IR spectral analysis for the diagnostics of crust earthquake precursors. // Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences. 2012. V.12, №11. P. 3269-3274.