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Using the kind permission given to me by my co-author, this short
preface will be written in my name. I want to devote this book to
San Juan city in Argentina. It is not only due to the fact that the
city was twice completely destroyed after the devastating ear-
quakes in 1941 and 1977, but also because my stay there completely
changed my life. Changes included changing my career from the field
of space plasma physics to Earth sciences and geophysics, and
changes in my personal life giving me h- piness and compliance in
my present family. Going back to the subject of the book, it should
be noted that the history of the question asked by the book is very
complicated and intricate. Starting in the 1930s from the
observation of seismogenic electric fields, the area of
seismo-ionospheric coupling became an area of fighting and
conflicts, hopes and frustrations. Spe- lation and misunderstanding
on the interdisciplinary borders made this field for many years
(even up to now) taboo for so-called "serious scientists." But due
to the courageous efforts of several groups in Russia and the
former USSR states such as Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, Japan, later
France and Taiwan, Greece and Italy the situation started to
improve.
This book discusses how the increased emanation of radon and other
gases from the Earth's crust in the vicinity of active tectonic
faults triggers a chain of physical processes and chemical
reactions in the atmospheric boundary layer and the Earth's
ionosphere over an earthquake area several days/hours before strong
seismic shocks occur. It presents the two main concepts involved in
this mechanism: atmosphere ionization and the global electric
circuit. The Lithosphere-Atmosphere-Ionosphere Coupling (LAIC)
concept is strongly supported by experimental data showing the
atmospheric and ionospheric precursors for major recent earthquakes
including 2004 Sumatra; 2008 Sichuan, China; 2011 Tohoku, Japan;
and 2015 Nepal. The book not only addresses the theoretical
considerations but also includes information on experimental
techniques used for precursor observations based on the space-borne
systems. Providing practical methods of precursor identification
and interpretation, it is an excellent textbook for graduate
courses in geophysics, earthquake science, atmospheric physics and
remote sensing. Moreover, it offers a wealth of information for
scientists and experts from governmental and international agencies
working in the fields of natural-disaster mitigation, response and
recovery.
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