to a question about "earthquake weather":
"The human mind seems to have a need for meaning, to make sense of data and
fit it all into a logical framework. Earthquakes are largely random."*
The experts know why earthquakes happen, and have a pretty good idea where
they will happen, and can tell us, within a certain range, how frequently on
average certain faults are likely to have a quake. Beyond that, it seems to
me that seismologists are forced to retain a real humility while admitting
they don't know much (at least, that's what I've heard in Dr. Kate's, Dr.
Lucy's and their colleagues' answers in TV interviews).
I can't quite believe that any of these true experts would stick their necks
out to agree to any of the speculation in the present article.
----------
* This is not an exact quote, but, I believe, consistent with the actual
statement. Note also that the mention of randomness was clearly in the
context of the "earthquake weather" notion, and applied to the lack of
relationship between earthquake occurrences and weather and other factors.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kim Noyes" <kimnoyes@gmail.com>
To: "CaliforniaDisasters" <californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com>;
"California's Earthquake Forum"
<californiasearthquakeforum@yahoogroups.com>; "Geology2"
<geology2@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2011 10:34 PM
Subject: [californiadisasters] Pseudo-Science Predicts Sky May Fall... Or
Not!
Is The Big One About To Hit California?California may be the next in line
for a devastating earthquake, based on a recent history of massive
geological activity and other naturally-occurring indicators.
Quakes in one part of the world help to trigger seismic events thousands of
miles away, sometimes even months later. Hours after Japan was struck by a
devastating 9.1 magnitude earthquake last Friday, a volcano in eastern
Indonesia
erupted<http://www.thejournal.ie/volcano-erupts-in-eastern-indonesia-2011-03
/>,
for example.
The Japanese quake is only the latest in a string of massive geological
activity. Working backward, a line of large earthquakes taking place over
the last 18 months can be drawn. On February 21, New Zealand suffered its
worst natural disaster for 80 years when a 6.3 earthquake struck
Christchurch<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacifi
c/newzealand/8340889/Christchurch-earthquake-New-Zealand-devastated-by-worst
-natural-disaster-in-history.html>,
killing more than 200 people and causing much devastation. The same area was
already weakened by a 7.0 quake that struck a few months
before<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11183685>on
September 3, 2010.
Across the Pacific, Chile was stuck with a 6.8 earthquake on February
11<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-12438336>,
sending thousands into the streets but causing little damage. Almost exactly
a year earlier on February 27,
2010<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Chile_earthquake>,
the country was hit with a massive 8.8 quake which lasted more than 3
minutes and ranked as the sixth largest quake ever recorded at the time.
That earthquake triggered a tsunami, which destroyed several coastal towns
in south-central Chile and damaged the port at Talcahuano.
Exactly a month before, Haiti was leveled by a 7.0
quake<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Haiti_earthquake>on January
27, 2010. Inadequate building design in the country killed an
estimated 316,000 people, injured 300,000 and made 1,000,000 homeless.
All of these events occurred along the Ring of Fire,
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Ring_of_Fire>named by scientists for
the large number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions take place along this
tectonic plate ridge in the Pacific Basin. Although Haiti does not sit on
the Ring of Fire, the island nation is on a fault line directly connected to
it.
Two-thirds of the world's volcanoes are hidden under water and they are
driving a lot of this activity.
So far, the west coast of the United States has not suffered a similar
earthquake. But the erratic behavior of mass groups of animals, usually a
good sign that one is about to strike, may show that the region's luck is
about to run out.
Thousands of sardines suddenly
died<http://www.wbay.com/Global/story.asp?S=14210496>on March 8 in
King Harbor, California. While scientists cannot give a reason
for the incident, some point to the mass stranding of 107
whales<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1359055/107-pilot-whales-die-
stranded-New-Zealand-beach.html>
that occurred less than 48 hours before New Zealand was hit on February 21
as an indication that something big is about to happen off the coast of
California.
These incidents are not without precedent. *The UK
Mirror*<http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/02/22/is-new-zealand-e
arthquake-linked-to-the-mysterious-deaths-of-more-than-100-pilot-whales-1158
75-22941618/>points
out another 170 whales stranded themselves in Australia and New
Zealand prior to the devastating Christmas 2004 quake that struck in the
Indian Ocean, resulting in a tsunami that killed more than 250,000 people
across the region. At the time, Indian professor Dr. Arunachalam Kumar
suspected a relationship between the two events:
Three weeks before the tsunami, he was alerted to the whales' deaths, and
wrote: "It is my observation, confirmed over the years, that mass suicides
of whales and dolphins that occur sporadically all over the world, are in
some way related to change and disturbances in the electromagnetic field
co-ordinates and possible realignments of geotectonic plates thereof.
"I would not be surprised if within a few days a massive quake hits some
part of the globe."
Scientists are currently speculating that the cause of death of New
Zealand's pilot whales is due to sound reverberations in shallow water.
Some suspect an earthquake could hit the west coast of the United States
within 3 weeks. Jim Berkland <http://www.syzygyjob.com/>, who predicted the
Loma Prieta quake, which occurred in the Bay Area in 1989, has done work
with the gravitational force of the moon and how that can trigger quakes.
Berkland notes that the Moon will make its closest approach to the earth in
the last 18 years from between 16-26, climaxing at its closest point on
March 19th. Many respected periodicals such as
Space.com<http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20110310/sc_space/willmarch19supermo
ontriggernaturaldisasters>are
quoting astrologists in their reporting of this "Supermoon" event,
which
gives the forecast less credibility, as astrology is not an exact science.
However, Berkland holds several degrees in the credible science of
geology<http://www.syzygyjob.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1
3&Itemid=27>and
has taught the subject in universities, as well as having working the
field for decades, which makes his warning one to heed.
<SNIP>
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http://www.therightperspective.org/2011/03/13/is-the-big-one-about-to-hit-ca
lifornia/
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