The Physics of Earthquake Prediction– a Magnetotelluric Perspective
Dean Livelybrooks, Physics, University of Oregon
Outline
The Loma Prieta "Magnetic Precursor"
Microfracturing to produce EM waves
More than you ever wanted to know about "earthquake prediction
"
Ocean ridge transform fault precursors (MIT news, 1996)
and predicted using radio astronomy methods...
Introduction to Magnetotellurics (MT)
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Electromagnetic induction in the Earth
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Data acquisition/modeling/inversion
Some ideas to
explain these precursorial phenomenon
A
three-dimensional "solution"
to the Loma Prieta precursor?
Electrical
conductivity elsewhere
along the San Andreas Fault and implications
Conclusions
And, current events are?
