Recently, detection of seismic electric signals (SESs) in telluric current data (TCD) observed using the VAN method has attracted notice for short-term earthquake prediction. However, since most of the TCD collected in Japan is affected by train noise, detecting SESs in TCD itself is an extremely arduous job. The goal of this research is to derive a method for detecting SESs, which is difficult...

In the wake of the devastating earthquake and tsunami of March 11, our group at Keio University worked diligently to bring the Vision Van, a mobile eye clinic, from Miami, Florida, to disaster areas where medicines, eyeglasses, and indeed all other ophthalmological supplies and services, were nonexistent, thereby assisting many tsunami survivors suffering from eye proble...

PURPOSE The Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011 triggered powerful tsunami waves off the northeastern Pacific coast of Japan that destroyed almost all of the built-up areas along the coast. The study reported here examined the role played by the Vision Van, a mobile outpatient ophthalmological clinic, in providing eye care to disaster evacuees. METHODS This was a retrospective case-...