What is the justification of advocating time-prediction of forthcoming major earthquakes in contrary to the common belief?
The justification is an outcome of the Serata’s three and half decades of extensive underground stress measurement work made possible through inventions, discoveries and global data analysis in geomechanics. The outcome is summarized below in time-sequence of the development, starting from invention of Stress Probes, formulation of earthquake stress mechanism through field verifications to the development of geomechanical methodology for earthquake time-prediction.
