“…Analysis of the thermal anomaly phenomenon using satellite techniques for monitoring seismically active regions has been carried out since the 1980s (Gorny et al, 1988). Many studies have reported that thermal anomalous space-time transients were detected in the OLR or thermal infrared radiation (TIR) before and/or during the earthquake preparation stage (Tronin, 1996(Tronin, , 2000Tramutoli et al, 2001Tramutoli et al, , 2005Tramutoli et al, , 2009Tramutoli et al, , 2013Di Bello et al, 2004;Ouzounov and Freund, 2004;Ouzounov et al, 2006Ouzounov et al, , 2007Pulinets et al, 2006;Genzano et al, 2007Genzano et al, , 2009Genzano et al, , 2010Genzano et al, , 2015Pulinets and Dunajeck, 2007;Aliano et al, 2008a,b;Pergola et al, 2010;Xiong et al, 2010Xiong et al, , 2013Xiong et al, , 2015Pulinets and Ouzounov, 2011;Jing et al, 2012;Lisi et al, 2015;Xiong and Shen, 2017;Khalili et al, 2019Khalili et al, , 2020. The main mechanisms proposed for the temperature increase are (1) the emission of diffuse gases (e.g., radon and CO 2 ) leading to a local greenhouse effect or near-ground air ionization to release heat (Tronin, 2002;Pulinets et al, 2006;Tramutoli et al, 2009Tramutoli et al, , 2013Koll and Cronin, 2018) and (2) positive hole charge or the excitation of an electric field from the stressed rock resulting in infrared emission and energy flow (Ouzounov and Freund, 2004;Freund, 2007a,b;Freun...…”