請問van法(問題轉錄自夢之大地地球科學版) - 地球科學討論

最近看了一本書，內容是說希臘物理學家P.A. Varotsos將物體破裂時
會產生細微電流應用到預測地震上，稱作van法。是真有此事嗎？那效果如何？
如果說效果不錯，那應該會廣泛應用，卻沒有啥耳聞。是有什麼缺陷嗎？

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我從網路上查到論文如以下，不過我不熟這方面的領域。

希望有人能帶為解釋，謝謝。
http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=
normal&id=PLEEE8000068000003031106000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=yes

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Natural entropy fluctuations discriminate similar-looking electric
signals emitted from systems of different dynamics
P. A. Varotsos et al., Phys. Rev. E 71, 011110 (2005)

Effect of nonlinear filters on detrended fluctuation analysis
Zhi Chen et al., Phys. Rev. E 71, 011104 (2005)

Aging in coherent noise models and natural time
Ugur Tirnakli et al., Phys. Rev. E 70, 056120 (2004)

Entropy in the natural time domain
P. A. Varotsos et al., Phys. Rev. E 70, 011106 (2004)

Electric Fields that "Arrive" before the Time Derivative of the
Magnetic Field prior to Major Earthquakes
P. A. Varotsos et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 148501 (2003)

看來這位科學家的確相當的活躍...

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