Contents:
  • What is VAN?:
    • Introduction to the VAN Method of Earthquake Prediction (S Uyeda)
    • Short Term Earthquake Prediction in Greece by Seismic Electrical Signals (P Varotsos et al.)
    • The Telemetric System of VAN Group (K Nomicos)
  • Possible SES Mechanisms:
    • Physical Mechanisms for Generation and Propagation of Seismic Electrical Signals (D Lazarus)
    • Laboratory Investigation of the Electrical Signals Preceding Earthquakes (V Hadjicontis & C Mavromatou)
    • On Electrotelluric Signals (P Bernard & J L LeMouël)
  • Counterarguments Against the VAN Approach:
    • VAN: A Critical Evaluation (R J Geller)
    • Foreshocks Preceding VAN Signals (SES) (K Sudo)
    • Brief Summary of Some Reasons Why the VAN Hypothesis for Predicting Earthquakes has to be Rejected (M Wyss)
  • Arguments in Favour of the VAN Approach:
    • Some Observations about the Statistical Significance and Physical Mechanisms of the VAN Method of Earthquake Prediction, Greece (S K Park et al.)
    • Re-Examination of Statistical Evaluation of the SES Prediction in Greece (K Hamada)
    • Anomalous Changes in Geoelectric Potential Preceding Four Earthquakes in Japan (T Nagao et al.)
  • Some Related Experimental Programmes:
    • Behaviour of the Electric Potential During the Activity of Aftershocks of the M7.2 Earthquake, Japan (Y Honkura et al.)
    • Implementation of VAN Technique in Guatemala (O Kulhánek)
  • Reactions to the Review Meeting:
    • A Seismologist's View of VAN (H Kanamori)
    • Some Personal Conclusions from the Meeting (C W A Browitt)
    • A Brief Look Back at the Review Meeting's Proceedings (J Lighthill)
    • Non-Seismological Fields in Earthquake Prediction Research (V I Keilis-Borok)
  • and other papers by distinguished authors

Readership: Geophysicists and earth scientists.