The magnetotelluric method is one of many methods based on measuring the electrical resistivity of the subsurface as an indirect means for studying geology, but it is a method that caught the imagination of many explorations when it was first described nearly three decades ago by Cagniard and Tikhonov.
Exciting developments in earthquake science have benefited from new observations, improved computational technologies, and improved modelling capabilities. Designing realistic supercomputer simulation models for the complete earthquake generation process is a grand scientific challenge due to the complexity of phenomena and range of scales involved from microscopic to global.