| Session Details | |
| Section | IWG - Interdisciplinary Working Groups |
| Session Title | Seismo-Electro magnetic Phenomena |
| Main Convener | Dr. Katsumi Hattori (Chiba University, Japan) |
| Co-convener(s) | Dr. Jann-Yenq Liu (National Central University, Taiwan) |
| Session Description | Asian countries such as Japan, Indonesia, India, China, Philippine etc/ are one of the most seismically and volcanic active countries in the world and they are frequently attacked by severe earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Earthquakes, such as the 1995 Kobe Earthquake (M7.1), the 1999 Chi-Chi Earthquake, the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake (M9) caused destructive disasters. It is very important to mitigate these disasters in Asian countries. Despite great efforts, the short-term earthquake prediction has not been achieved in the world. The electromagnetic anomalies related to earthquakes have been reported recently. In the last fifteen years, an international intensive research in the new science field of seismo-electromagnetics has been carried out in many countries such as Japan, Russia, China, Greece, France, Italy, India, Mexico, and USA. The aim of this session is to have a forum to highlight the electromagnetic phenomena associated with crustal activity taking place in the lithosphere, atmosphere and ionosphere/magnetosphere and their related phenomena. However, these electromagnetic sensors are much more affected by space events than by lithosphere events. Because lithospheric signal changes are small in comparison to signal changes caused by the space environment. Therefore, in order to monitor or forecast changes in the lithosphere environment with electromagnetic techniques, it is necessary to understand the space environment simultaneously. The aim of this workshop is to evaluate and discuss the state of the art and the recent progress in Seismo-Electromagnetics research in Asian countries in comparison with Space research •Ground-based earthquake-related electromagnetic phenomena •Ground-based volcano-related electromagnetic phenomena •Satellite based earthquake/volcano-related phenomena •Signal Processing •Observation / Instrumentation / Data integration •Physical mechanism / Theory •Lithosphere-Atmosphere-Ionosphere Coupling •Cross-check the results of precursory detection by applying different methodologies for analysis of ground-based and satellite data •Identification of the common methodology for statistical validation of the major earthquake precursory phenomena |