Correlation between electromagnetic phenomena and earthquake / Nor Shazwani Ismail

The earthquake is earth event that causes damage and making many losses to people. This project is highlight about the correlation between electromagnetic phenomena and Earthquake. The studied is done by using MAGnetic Data Acquisition System (MAGDAS) data that received from Space Environment Research Center (SERC), Kyushu University. In this project, data are observed from one of MAGDAS station which is situated at Manado, Indonesia (1.44°N, 124.84°E) and the location that earthquake occurred is situated at Seram, Indonesia (3.595°S, 127.214°E) on 14 March 2006. The distance between these two locations is 619.602 km. The MAGDAS data is consist of three magnetic fields which are known as H, D and Z components. These three components were analyzed by examined their amplitude variation. In order to prove that any changed of these components related to Earthquake, the polarization ratio (ZIH) and Kp index were used. The MAGDAS data was processed by using MATLAB version R2007a. From this project, there had magnetic field enhancements for H, D and Z components within 3 to 10 days before the earthquake.