Pre-Earthquake Processes ebook is available to be downloaded here now.
- Title: Pre-Earthquake Processes – A Multidisciplinary Approach to Earthquake Prediction Studies
- Author: Dimitar Ouzounov, Sergey Pulinets,Katsumi Hattori, Patrick Taylor
- Publisher: Wiley
- Pages: 382
Our current knowledge of the pre‐earthquake phenomena has developed over past 25 centuries, originating from the earliest scientific observation: the first scientific treatise to report comprehensively about earthquake associated phenomena is generally recognized to be Meteorologica, written by Aristotle in 340 bc in ancient Greece. He presented the first description of earthquakes and other weather phenomena, including his theory of “pneuma” (breath), a phenomenon emanating before earthquakes. This was followed by continuous observations of atmospheric signs preceding large earthquakes in Europe. At the end of the nineteenth century Alexander von Humboldt [1897] studied the air circulation, similar to the “respiration of Earth” phenomenon, associated with earthquake processes originally proposed by Russian academician V. Vernadsky [1912].
During the same period of great science discoveries, John Milne—an English seismologist and geologist who invented the first modern seismograph—published his first edition of Earthquakes and Other Movements [Milne, 1913] with some novel ideas about warning of major earthquakes. Milne published the first quantitative analysis of atmospheric signals associated with seismicity based on 387 earthquakes observed in northern Japan, where he found that sinusoidal curves of the means of monthly temperature were generally a little in advance of the crest of the waves indicating the earthquake arrival [Milne, 1913]. Later in the seventh edition [Milne and Lee, 1939], they wrote: “It has been suggested that the small foreshocks indicated the removal of obstacles on a fault plane and that the occurrence of such a series of little shocks might be taken as a warning of other impending disasters” and: “Again, it has been suggested that the quake might be indicated by
changes in the velocity which seismic waves are propagated.”