Satellite Data Earthquake Prediction Breakthrough
According to TapTechNews on June 19, Dr. Mehdi Akhoondzadeh from the University of Tehran carefully studied satellite data and believed that earthquake signals could be detected 12 to 19 days in advance through satellites, thereby enabling early earthquake warnings.
Related achievements were published in the journal Applied Geodesy. He carefully investigated the destructive earthquake in Turkey-Syria that occurred in February 2023, surveyed the earthquake records of the USGS (United States Geological Survey), and compared the readings of orbital missions such as China's Zhang Heng-1, NASA's Aqua and Aura, and the three Swarm satellites of the European Space Agency, and discovered some very interesting abnormal phenomena.
Studies found that the temperature of the lithosphere (the outermost solid shell of the Earth, including the crust and part of the upper mantle) will increase sharply 12 to 19 days before the earthquake.
And this is just the beginning. In the following days, the situation of disturbing the atmosphere, manifested as strange readings of water vapor, methane, ozone, carbon monoxide, and airborne particles called 'aerosol optical depth', and these atmospheric signs lasted for about five days.
Some abnormal phenomena in the ionosphere will appear five days before the earthquake, but the truly unambiguous characteristics, such as electron density and temperature deviations, do not appear until 24 hours before.
TapTechNews learned from the report that Dr. Akhoondzadeh believes that the process from the lithosphere to the atmosphere and then to the ionosphere is an important clue, and all these abnormal phenomena originate from the long process before the final fracture deep in the crust.
He proposed the concept of 'Lithosphere-Atmosphere-Ionosphere Coupling' (abbreviated as LAIC), believing that this is an overall phenomenon that can provide early earthquake signals.
If the LAIC theory holds true, we will see a completely new earthquake early warning capability. For areas located at the top of active faults, this additional preparation time may play an important role in saving lives.