Earthquake Prediction

by Saumitra Mukherjee (Editor)

Overview

Earthquake Prediction is the ultimate goal for geoscientists. This volume presents the latest ideas of the ever fascinating and challenging research of earthquake prediction. Sunspot activity and Coronal mass ejection are considered to be influential phenomena in affecting both the electric as well as the magnetic characteristics of sun-earth environment. All these changes have been observed before the occurrence of earthquakes and tsunami in various parts of the earth. A session on Earthquake Prediction, chaired by Dr. Saumitra Mukerjee was held during the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2005, (Vienna, Austria, April 2005). The EGU General Assembly was able to bring together 8000 geoscientists from all over Europe and the rest of the world into one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth and Planetary Sciences. This book presents the 7 papers presented in the session on Earthquake Prediction.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789067644501
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/11/2006
Pages:	104
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.70(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

Saumitra Mukherjee, Ph.D. (1989) in Geology, BHU, India. He is an Associate Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University,India and Visiting Professor at the University of Liverpool, UK, collaborating with ESA & NASA. He has published extensively on Remote Sensing applications, including the Text book of Environmental Remote Sensing (Macmillan 2004)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements, Preface, Detection of the non-random component in the earthquake distribution between the Northern and Southern part of the Pacific: observations and modeling, The within-year variability in the earthquake distributions for some regions of the Earth, Earthquake vapor, a reliable precursor, Possible influence of helio-geophysical factors on the realization of rockbursts, Abnormal temperature increase and astro-tidal triggering in the tsunami earthquake in Indonesia magnitude 9.0, Starstorm influence on earth rotation leads tsunami and earthquakes, The Gujarat, India earthquake of 26 January 2001 was triggered by a change in Kp index and electron flux induced by sun