Could GPS be Used to Predict Earthquakes?
Professor Kosuke Heki of Hokkaido University in Japan believes he has found a way to predict earthquakes.
Professor Kosuke Heki of Hokkaido University believes he can predict earthquakes by analyzing GPS signals to measure upper-atmosphere electron counts. (Image credit: ShutterStock)
Heki analyses GPS signals by measuring the TEC, or Total Electron Content, in the upper atmosphere. Whilst measuring how the TEC was disrupted by sound waves after the Tohoku earthquake of 2011, he discovered – quite by accident – that the TEC was also disrupted in the 40 or so minutes before it.
Going back through GPS records he has found similar correlations for other major earthquakes, a discovery that is being heralded as a major breakthrough in our understanding of earthquake phenomena.
View the video at BBC News.
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