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Geophysical Effects of a Series of Strong Earthquakes in Turkey of February 6, 2023

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Abstract—During a series of destructive earthquakes in Turkey on February 6, 2023, in particular, two strong earthquakes with magnitudes 7.8 and 6.7 immediately following each other, the results of instrumental observations of microbaric and geomagnetic variations made in the surface layer of the atmosphere, as well as variations of the electric field and the critical frequency of the regular F2 layer of the ionosphere are presented. It is shown that the earthquakes were accompanied by variations of magnetic and electric fields, generation of infrasound waves recorded at a considerable distance from the sources, as well as variations of the critical frequency f0F2.

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  1. Short magnetic field variations in the period immediately after the doublet earthquake 1 and 2 are analyzed in (Adushkin et al., 2023).

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Adushkin, V.V., Rybnov, Y.S., Riabova, S.A. et al. Geophysical Effects of a Series of Strong Earthquakes in Turkey of February 6, 2023. Izv., Phys. Solid Earth 59, 947–956 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1069351323060010

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