Research Article

A Deterministic Approach to Earthquake Prediction

Table 2

A summary of ground-based short-term (hour-days) SEME precursors.

ObservationsModeling

EKE changes.
B field changes.
Ground potentials [5961].
Streaming Potentials by saline water moving through porous rocks [62, 63].
Stress applied effects to rocks containing piezoelectric materials [6467].

ULF-ELF SEME [6871].
ULF-HF SEME [26, 7277].
VLF E field changes [78, 79].
EM behaviour of rocks [55, 8083].
Rocks become a source of highly mobile electric carriers that increase electric conductivity and propagate through the rock as a charge cloud [84].

E field changes and gas emissions by rock microfracturing [31, 85, 86].Number and dimensions of microcracks and redistribution of pore fluids.
Motion of saline pore fluids and formation of intergranular water film [55, 86].

Low-frequency SEME Laboratory investigations about conversion of accumulated preseismic elastic energy to EM energy [87].Rock as “igneous rock battery” due to the activation of positive hole charge carriers by stress. Dislocation movement leading to bond breaking of Si–OO–Si peroxy links [87].

Mechanical and EM signals from laboratory to geophysical scale [88].First attempts to justify effects of applied stress on rocks [88].