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Co-seismic infrasound in the ionosphere over Central Europe from the M8.8 Kamchatka 2025 earthquake observed by Doppler sounding at record heights
Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, 141 00, Czech Republic
Zbyšek Mošna
Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, 141 00, Czech Republic
Jiří Baše
Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, 141 00, Czech Republic
Jan Zedník
Institute of Geophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, 141 00, Czech Republic
Carsten Schmidt
German Remote Sensing Data Center of the German Aerospace Center (DLR-DFD), Oberpfaffenhofen, 82234, Germany
Patrick Hannawald
German Remote Sensing Data Center of the German Aerospace Center (DLR-DFD), Oberpfaffenhofen, 82234, Germany
Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, 141 00, Czech Republic
Jaroslav Urbář
Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, 141 00, Czech Republic
Šimon Mackovjak
Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, 040 01, Slovakia
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An analysis of unique observations of long period infrasound waves (~200 s) recorded in the ionosphere over Central Europe at record heights by continuous Doppler sounding is presented. The infrasound was generated by the Long-period surface seismic waves induced by the M8.8 Kamchatka earthquake on July 29, 2025. The time delay of the infrasound detection in the ionosphere relative to the vertical motion of the ground surface is consistent with the numerical simulation of infrasound propagation.
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