Abstract
Earthquake prediction research programmes in a number of countries are reviewed together with achievements in various disciplines involved in earthquake prediction research, i.e., geodetic work, tide gauge observation, continuous observation of crustal movement, seismic activity and seismological method, seismic wave velocity, geotectonic work, geomagnetic and geoelectric work and laboratory work and its application in the field.Present-day development of earthquake prediction research suggests that actual prediction of some class of earthquakes, if not all, may be possible within a period of a few tens of years provided that basic data could steadily be accumulated.Mention is also made about the difficulties in issuing an actual forewarning of earthquake on the basis of the experience of the 1965–1966 Matsushiro earthquakes during which a few long-term predictions of moderately destructive earthquakes were officially issued to the public for the first time in history.
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