The Prediction of Two Large Earthquakes in Greece
Abstract
The VAN experimental method of short-term earthquake prediction (named after the initials of three Greek physicists, Panayiotis Varotsos, Kessar Alexopoulos, and Konstantine Nomicos) has been used to monitor preseismic electric signals since the 1980s [see Varotsos, 2005]. From observed telluric current signals, called seismic electric signals (SES), the epicentral area, magnitude, and occurrence time of an impending earthquake are estimated. SES are interpreted as having been emitted when the focal region in which the earthquake in question could occur has entered the critical regime (i.e., a stage close to the rupture).
- Publication:
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EOS Transactions
- Pub Date:
- September 2008
- DOI:
- 10.1029/2008EO390002
- Bibcode:
- 2008EOSTr..89..363U
- Keywords:
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- Seismology: Earthquake interaction;
- forecasting;
- and prediction (1217;
- 1242);
- Nonlinear Geophysics: Critical phenomena;
- Mathematical Geophysics: Time series analysis (1872;
- 4277;
- 4475)