May 20th, 2011

Scientists may have found quake warning signal

Scientists may have found a way to predict earthquakes.

According to a team of NASA and Russian space and physical scientists, in the days before the March 11 Tohoku earthquake in Japan, the atmosphere directly above the epicenter rapidly heated up.

In a presentation at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, the researchers presented data indicating that starting on March 3, the electron count in the ionosphere – the upper part of the atmosphere – increased dramatically.

The count reached its peak three days before the temblor struck. Read more from California Watch.

(Photo courtesy NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

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