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CRITICAL REVIEW OF VAN, A: EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION FROM SEISMIC ELECTRICAL SIGNALS
Author(s): Sir Lighthill, James (Author)
- Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
- Publication Date: March 1, 1996
- Language: English
- Print length: 388 pages
- ISBN-10: 9810226705
- ISBN-13: 9789810226701
Book Description
The acronym VAN refers to Drs Varotsos, Alexopoulos and Nomicos, members of a group based in the University of Athens and led by Professor Varotsos (head of the Physics Department) which for over a decade has sought to use electric-field measurements between electrodes buried in the earth to predict earthquakes in Greece over periods of order one month or less. But is such “short-term” prediction achievable by the VAN approach (or by any other)? This book is an objective collection of the arguments for – and the counterarguments against – that approach, intended to help scientific readers arrive at their own answers to this important question, as well as to others (including that of VAN’s “export” potential).
