Citation

Jie Y, Guo G. Disaster Adv. 2013; 6(1): 35-37.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Shankar Gargh)

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Abstract

Satellite thermal anomaly and earthquake cloud were two kinds of possible earthquake precursors reported widely. Most of the reports were post-earthquake analyses. In this paper, we used these two methods to make an attempt to predict earthquakes. First, cloud anomaly according to the FY2C and FY-2D satellite data was analyzed to identify a suspicious area roughly and then thermal anomaly of outgoing IR radiation according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellite data was analyzed to verify this anomaly. The result of two prediction examples indicates that the earthquake prediction success percent with these two kinds of precursors is better than that done with only one precursor. In the future, if the geophysical data such as groundwater, radon gas, gravity, geology structure data etc. were used together, successful prediction may improve.