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Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Geophysics Volume 2011, Article ID 752193, 11 pages doi:10.1155/2011/752193 Research Article Remote Detection of the Electric Field Change Induced at the Seismic Wave Front from the Start of Fault Rupturing Yukio Fujinawa,1 Kozo Takahashi,2 Yoichi Noda,3 Hiroshi Iitaka,4 and Shinobu Yazaki5 1 Risk Management Association, 302-13 Yamabukichou, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan 2 Communication Research Laboratory, 4-2-1 Nukuikita, Koganei, Tokyo, 184-3795, Japan 3 Real-time Earthquake Information Consortium, NPO, 11-3 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan 4 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, 1-1-4 Umezono, Tsukuba Ibaraki, 305-8568, Japan 5 National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, 3-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0006, Japan Correspondence should be addressed to Yukio Fujinawa, yukio.fujinawa@ferd.jp Received 1 September 2010; Revised 16 December 2010; Accepted 13 June 2011 Academic Editor: Gary Egbert Copyright © 2011 Yukio Fujinawa et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Seismic waves are generally observed through the measurement of undulating elastic ground motion. We report the remote detection of the Earth’s electric field variations almost simultaneously with the start of fault rupturing at about 100 km from the fault region using a special electric measurement. The rare but repeated detection indicates that the phenomenon is real. The characteristic time of diffusion is almost instantaneous, that is, less than 1 second to travel 100 km, more than te