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Phenomena preceding major earthquakes interconnected through a physical model
Panayiotis A. Varotsos
Department of Physics, Section of Solid State Physics, National and
Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, Zografos 157 84, Athens, Greece
Department of Physics, Solid Earth Physics Institute, National and
Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, Zografos 157 84, Athens, Greece
Department of Physics, Section of Solid State Physics, National and
Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, Zografos 157 84, Athens, Greece
Department of Physics, Solid Earth Physics Institute, National and
Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, Zografos 157 84, Athens, Greece
Efthimios S. Skordas
Department of Physics, Section of Solid State Physics, National and
Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, Zografos 157 84, Athens, Greece
Department of Physics, Solid Earth Physics Institute, National and
Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, Zografos 157 84, Athens, Greece
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In this paper, we summarize the anomalous phenomena that were observed before the super-giant earthquake of magnitude 9.0 that occurred on 11 March 2011 in Japan. These phenomena have been detected by means of ground-based measurements and satellite data. We find that all these phenomena are in agreement with a condensed matter physical model that motivated in the 1980s a short-term earthquake prediction method based on the detection of precursory electric signals.
In this paper, we summarize the anomalous phenomena that were observed before the super-giant...
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