Over the past decades, long-term studies have been conducted to investigate the potential spatial-temporal correlations between anomalies in Earth’s thermally emitted infrared (TIR) radiation and earthquake occurrence. These investigations have utilized TIR data acquired from both geostationary and polar-orbiting satellites across several seismically active regions worldwide. The Robust Satellite Technique (RST), applied to ultra-decadal TIR data across different seismic contexts, has enabled the identification of Significant Sequences of TIR Anomalies (SSTAs) potentially associated with impending earthquakes. These anomalies are rare (10 years) TIR datasets from geostationary sensors, including SEVIRI (onboard MSG) over Greece, Italy, and Turkey, and JAMI and IMAGER (onboard MTSAT satellites) over Japan, as well as the preliminary results achieved by using the RETIRSA index in recent earthquake worldwide.
Genzano et al. (Wed,) studied this question.