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  2. Earth's magnetic field - Wikipedia

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    Very weak electromagnetic fields disrupt the magnetic compass used by European robins and other songbirds, which use the Earth's magnetic field to navigate. Neither power lines nor cellphone signals are to blame for the electromagnetic field effect on the birds; [ 89 ] instead, the culprits have frequencies between 2 kHz and 5 MHz.

  3. Magnetotellurics - Wikipedia

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    These stations measure fluctuations in the Earth's electromagnetic field that correspond with seismic activity. [43] The raw geophysical time-series data from these monitoring stations is freely available to the scientific community, enabling further study of the interaction between electromagnetic events and earthquake activity.

  4. James R. Wait - Wikipedia

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    1962 Effective impedance of a wire grid parallel to the earth's surface; 1963 Preface: Special issue on electromagnetic waves in the earth; 1963 The possibility of guided electromagnetic waves in the earth's crust; 1963 Curves for ground wave propagation over mixed land and sea paths

  5. Telluric current - Wikipedia

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    A telluric current (from Latin tellūs 'earth'), or Earth current, [1] is an electric current that flows underground or through the sea, resulting from natural and human-induced causes. These currents have extremely low frequency and traverse large areas near or at Earth 's surface.

  6. Geomagnetically induced current - Wikipedia

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    The Earth's magnetic field varies over a wide range of timescales. The longer-term variations, typically occurring over decades to millennia, are predominantly the result of dynamo action in the Earth's core. Geomagnetic variations on timescales of seconds to years also occur, due to dynamic processes in the ionosphere, magnetosphere and ...

  7. Schumann resonances - Wikipedia

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    The global electromagnetic resonance phenomenon is named after physicist Winfried Otto Schumann who predicted it mathematically in 1952. Schumann resonances are the principal background in the part of the electromagnetic spectrum [2] from 3 Hz through 60 Hz [3] and appear as distinct peaks at extremely low frequencies around 7.83 Hz (fundamental), 14.3, 20.8, 27.3, and 33.8 Hz.

  8. Dynamo theory - Wikipedia

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    In physics, the dynamo theory proposes a mechanism by which a celestial body such as Earth or a star generates a magnetic field. The dynamo theory describes the process through which a rotating, convecting , and electrically conducting fluid can maintain a magnetic field over astronomical time scales.

  9. Magnetic anomaly - Wikipedia

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    This is a large-scale, time-averaged mathematical model of the Earth's field based on measurements from satellites, magnetic observatories and other surveys. [2]: 167 Some corrections that are needed for gravity anomalies are less important for magnetic anomalies. For example, the vertical gradient of the magnetic field is 0.03 nT/m or less, so ...