“…By studying remote sensing satellite data, researchers have found various abnormal events in the lithosphere, atmosphere and ionosphere prior to large earthquakes, which are reflected in thermal infrared (TIR) anomalies (Gorny et al, 1988;Tronin, 1996;Tramutoli et al, 2005;Pulinets et al, 2006), and ionospheric anomalies (Pulinets and Boyarchuk, 2004;Hayakawa, 2000;Liu et al, 2004;Sarkar et al, 2007;Parrot et al, 2006) prior to the earthquake events. The latest advancements in lithospheric-atmospheric-ionospheric models provide a possible explanation for the origin of these phenomena (Pulinets and Boyarchuk, 2004;Pulinets and Ouzounov, 2011;Liperovsky et al, 2005Liperovsky et al, , 2008Liperovsky et al, , 2011Umarkhodgaev et al, 2012), permitting us to explore possible new studies of the spatial and temporal variability of remote sensing data before and during major earthquakes.…”