This paper presents an analysis of the results determining the positions and the velocities of the 21 selected satellite laser ranging stations which performed observations from January 2008 to December 2012. This particularly interesting period of five years was selected, during which two strong earthquakes occurred near the stations. The focus was directed on the stations where the effects of the earthquakes were observed, i.e., Koganei (7308), Simosato (7838), and Changchun (7237) as a result of the tsunami in Japan on 11 February 2011, as well as Concepcion (7405IR) and San Juan (7406) as a result of the earthquake in Chile on 27 February 2010. The station positions were computed using the GSFC NASA GEODYN-II orbital software from the observations results of the satellites LAGEOS-1 and LAGEOS-2. The geocentric coordinates of the stations were determined from the normal equations of both satellites. The station velocities were computed from the positions determined for the observation epoch using the linear regression method. For each station, the following parameters were determined: mean total coordinates stability, standard deviation of determined positions and mean deviation from ITRF for topocentric components. For the best stations, the stability ranged from 4.0 mm to 6.5 mm, with the standard deviation of determined positions ranging from 0.9 mm to 1.7 mm. For two stations, a quadratic change in the station position was detected instead of a normal linear one after strong earthquakes.

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