現在、ウクライナのInstitute of Radiophysics and Electronics のA. V. Shvets教授が来日され、ELFシューマン共振を用いた地球温暖化モニターの共同研究を行っています。同教授のセミナーを以下のように開催します。興味をお持ちの教職員、学生の方々のご参加をお待ちしています。ELFシューマン共振は地球と電離層からなる空洞が雷放電により共振を起こすもので、この共振を世界多点データから逆変換により世界雷分布を同定するというものです。
日時：平成21年10月22日(木) 午後2：30～
場所：電気通信大学 西２号館 106号
講演者：Dr. A. V. Shvets（ウクライナ Institute of Radiophysics and Electronics, Kharkov, Ukraine）
タイトル：ELFシューマン共振データの逆変換と世界雷分布の同定
10月21～23日：日本地震学会2009年秋季大会
Lack of solar activity during the reporting period and a marked enhancement of seismic activity (only for the period 9-10 August, an earthquake occurred 4 to magnitude 6 or more points) you can make the assumption: unsteady flow of electrons with energies up to 1 MeV, observed on 9 August, may be associated with "Preparations" earthquake with a magnitude M=7.1 in 10 hours 56 minutes UTC coordinates 33°north latitude and 138°east longitude (near Japan). This rash of particles starts in the past 70 minutes and lasts until the earthquake. "Echo" earthquake "heard", obviously, some time to restore a sustainable balance of particles in the belt.
According to Shin, the Institute of Earth Sciences under Academia Sinica has established eight earthquake monitoring stations around the country since 1988 aimed at discerning the relationship between major earthquakes and geomagnetic fluctuations.
So far, they have not been able to determine the reasons behind geomagnetic fluctuations and their physical mechanism, Shin said.
Several leading local universities, including National Taiwan Central University and National Taiwan University, have also set up task forces to research the possibility of short-term earthquake prediction on the basis of electromagnetic field variations under, on, or over the Earth's surface and near space.
"Despite being an uphill battle, earthquake prediction research must go on," Shin concluded.
７月24日：UK-DMC2 Ready For Launch (Spacemart)
SSTL and its UK-DMC2 satellite will also support a scientific experiment developed by the winners of the Space Experiment Competition for UK students, sponsored by the British National Space Centre (BNSC). Shrewsbury School's POISE experiment will investigate the way in which fluctuations in the ionospheric layer of the Earth's atmosphere can affect the radio signals passing through it.
The team at Shrewsbury School will use receivers mounted onboard UK-DMC2 to pick up GPS signals that have passed through the ionosphere. POISE will measure the signal properties to determine its integrity. It is thought that by monitoring ionospheric scintillation, the experiment could support research into predicting earthquakes from space.
A NATO project is working towards bringing earthquake prediction in the Western Balkans, including Albania and all the former Yugoslav republics, except for Slovenia, closer to science and further from fiction.
While the latest satellite-assisted experiments into earthquake prediction are promising, research in the field is still very embryonic. NATO's Science for Peace and Security Programme (SPS) is involved in that research in Southeastern Europe, where it is funding an effort that will, according to Project Director Branislav Glavatovic, "provide an important step towards preparedness and prevention activities in disaster management in the Western Balkans". SPS launched the three-year project in October 2007, financing it with 638,000 euros. Glavatovic co-ordinates the project from its headquarters in Podgorica.
７月14日：文部科学省人事（１４日）（下）（時事）
Now our new word in the instrument development field will help scientists say a new word in science. In fact, "STEP-F" will provide an opportunity to observe processes in the Solar system of a broader perspective. And "hide" anything from the people the Sun does not succeed. Deprive it of its secrets - no fancy scientific research, but crucial objective of planetary scale. How will evolve the main star of our Solar system is the safety of the Earth. We will not be able to affect the Sun metaphysics at all desire but the device might warn of impending disasters.
The Sun and its corona, the scientists explained, are a natural laboratory for studying the fundamental characteristics of the plasma. The Earth' surrounding streams of high energy charged particles - precursors of magnetic storms, volcanic activity and Earthquakes. Thus, defining changes in the fluxes of charged protons, electrons and alpha-particles, can prevent many misfortunes.
Located in the seismic zone Japan has sponsored the creation of the Ukrainian telescope because it shall be able to assist this country to search for precursors of earthquakes. Foreign grants simultaneously with financial assistance of National Space Agency of Ukraine, and the financial support of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine allowed to complete the project, initiated by scientists KhNU them. At that time we have hatched plans to run our own spacecraft group into orbit for the prediction of seismic activity on the Earth.
６月17日：Scientists Search for a Pulse in Skies Above Earthquake Country (NASA)
SCA共同プロジェクト・ワークショップ（「ジェンダー」、「水」、「自然災害」、「みつばち」、「地震電磁気」、「海洋安全」）及びスペシャルセッション（「アジアにおけるポップカルチャー」（Pop Culture in Asia – Comparison of Film Culture）及び「科学技術の人材育成」（Grooming S&T Talent））が行われ、日本からも多くの専門家が参加した。（アジア学術会議）
６月12日：内閣府が最先端研究で意見募集 科学技術への期待、要望など（共同）
台湾を直撃する台風がいわゆる「スロー地震」を発生させ、大地震を防いでいる可能性があるとの研究結果が、英科学誌『ネイチャー（Nature）』に発表された。
台風は気圧の低下をともなうが、これが断層を覆う陸地にかかる気圧を下げ、その結果ふたつの断層のうち片方がわずかに隆起し、内側にたまった圧力を解放すると考えられる。台風は、断層内の圧力を逃がす圧力バルブの役割を果たしている可能性がある。
報告した台湾中央研究院・地球科学研究所（Institute for Earth Sciences at Academic Sinica）のチームは、もし台風が来ることなく断層内部にエネルギーが蓄積され続けると、何らかの誘因がなくても大地震発生に至ると考えている。
６月４～５日：「地域防災防犯展」大阪
To approach the occurrence time of the impending event, the procedure developed in Ref.32 has been employed for the seismicity within the area N38.8 37.7 E24.1 22.6.
There are anomalous phenomena in the ionosphere, atmosphere and the Earth's surface that could potentially be considered as signs of impending earthquakes:
abrupt changes in the concentration of electronic components in the ionosphere, as well as the emergence of large-scale inhomogeneities;
Ultra-low, very low frequency and high frequency electromagnetic waves;
abnormal changes in quasi-electric field and magnetic induction vector;
anomaly in the composition, concentration, flow rates and temperature of the ionospheric plasma;
intense glow of the atmosphere at frequencies corresponding to vibrational spectra of atomic oxygen and hydroxyl;
emission of radon and metallic aerosols in the surface atmosphere;
increase by 3-5 degrees surface temperature of the Earth in the future earthquake;
abnormal alignment of the clouds above the active faults of the earth's crust before an earthquake;
rash of high-energy protons and electrons;
growing tension in the crust, which lead to small displacements, to secure which can be used
Press conference on the theme: "Prediction of an earthquake in Russia: short and long term." In connection with the earthquake in Italy once more the question arose of forecasting earthquakes. How likely is the most accurate indication of the date and area of the earthquake? Which regions of our country's most earthquake-prone? Where most likely in the near future fluctuations in the Earth's crust? As information is exchanged between seysmotsentrami different countries, especially in the case where there are data indicating the possibility of earthquakes on the territory of neighboring or distant states?
４月７日：Earthquake prediction: Gone and back again (EARTH Magazine)
Last fall, Ouzounov and colleagues invited seismologists and atmospheric scientists to listen to the latest developments in earthquake precursor research at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, Calif. With an international collaboration of experts working on different aspects of this issue, Ouzounov says, scientists can better evaluate earthquake anomalies. In short, he says, “we are on the quest for validation.”
４月７日：１週間前に地震予知？ ネットの警告、伊当局が事前削除（朝日）
KANOPUS-V is being developed for Russia and will record abnormal phenomena to study the possibility of earthquake prediction as well as monitoring agriculture, water and coastal resources.
３月６日：早川正士教授 最終講義
But occasionally I come across research that is not so easy to dismiss. For example, data from the French micro-satellite DEMETER, which was launched in 2003 to investigate electromagnetic perturbations in the ionosphere, have been analysed by a team of French and Czech researchers (F. Nemec et al. Geophys. Res. Lett. doi:10.1029/2007GRL032517; 2008). These authors find that there are very-low-frequency electromagnetic fluctuations in the ionosphere above the epicentres of moderate and large earthquakes that occur a day or two before the ground starts to shake.
