Sensing Technologies to Study Synergy in Pre-earthquake Phenomena: Investigating Triggering Mechanisms, Biosensing and Space Weather Impacts

Dear Colleagues,

A significant challenge for the science community is understanding earthquake processes and other geohazards in the context of rapidly changes to the Earth as a result of the Sun's activities and exacerbating climate change. This volume presents the latest results of cross-disciplinary space- and ground-based studies on the synergy of pre-earthquake processes. It advances earlier interdisciplinary results from studies of the Earth’s global environment with ground- and/or space-borne multi-instrument observations. Over the last 30 years, international community cooperation has shown the existence of pre-earthquake phenomena and suggested the concept of lithosphere–atmosphere–ionosphere coupling (LAIC), which indicates that different types of disturbances in the lithosphere—electromagnetic, electrical, mechanical, and geochemical—accompany the earthquake preparation process. However, there are still a few open questions regarding differences in space weather and other influences, bio-sensing phenomena, and the role of triggers in the occurrence of earthquakes.

This volume advances interdisciplinary studies of pre-earthquake phenomena. It will help elaborate the topics of geosphere coupling and space weather impacts for the broader science community.

Keywords:

• Observations, modeling, and analyses of geochemical, electromagnetic, and thermodynamic processes and case histories relating to stress changes in the lithosphere, geohazards, and space weather.
• Utilizing space-borne multi-instrument observations from Swarm (ESA, 2013), CSES01 (China/Italy, 2018), and FORMOSAT-7/COSMIC-2 (Taiwan/USA, 2019) to study pre-earthquake processes, geohazards, and space weather.
• Applying ground-based electrical, geochemical, electromagnetic, seismic, and infrasound observations of pre-earthquake phenomena, biosensing, and geospace impacts.
• Exporting different models and multi-instrumental observations of earthquake-triggering.
• Reviewing the biosensing phenomena of humans, animals, and plants associated with earthquake processes, geohazards, and space weather.

Dr. Dimitar Ouzounov
Dr. Katsumi Hattori
Guest Editors

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