Posted on 03/15/2011 11:30:01 PM PDT by Kartographer
JIM BERKLAND, GEOLOGIST: The month of October, March, and April are the three most devastating earthquakes in terms of damage in the San Francisco Bay Area in history. And we are having on the 19th of this month not only the full moon, but within an hour the closest approach of the moon to the earth until the year 2016. The next day is the equinoctial tides. So you're bringing together three of the maximum tide raising forces. We know about the ocean tides. But there is also an Earth tide. And there is a tide in the ground water. All of these help to release sudden, built up strain, and cause earthquakes.
CAVUTO: But that would seem to imply that we could be looking at a very imminent event in the United States within the next week or two? Is that right?
BERKLAND: Yes. My -- what I call a seismic window, this top seismic window in years is developing between the 19th and 26th of this month. And this was 7.0 monster and it says geologist had warned about it. And a week earlier, the they were talking about the tides, not to worry about the really tides coming up. I think there is worry here too.
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Would be VERY HAPPY for you to tell me where I inferred wrong.
Certainly I could not KNOW much about what your few words meant . . . and certainly not precisely.
However, I do know something about how others might have read and inferred from them, too.
PRAISE GOD.
Wonderful.
That was Paladin1_DCS; BTW at his church.
Yes. I should have been more detailed. We can calculate the gravitational pull. The question is what does it do to the earth - particularly the plates. Does it cause them to shift or create more pressure. It sounds like it is possible.
What was happening when Japan had their earthquake. It was huge. The power of man is so tiny compare to the planet(s). The earth’s core and geology and the atmosphere. People talk about a huge hurricane until it comes up against one of those fronts that moves west to east. The power is just amazing.
I doubt there is going to be that much difference in the gravitational force of the moon over the next three days.
Tidal forces are measured in micro-g’s, the difference between normal tides and very strong tides in nano-g’s. But a few extra nano-g’s acting on a very large mass is a lot of force.
Anyway, I met a lady from SF and we started to chat. She mentioned that she had cats. I said something to the effect that she must be a cat lover. She replied, not really. She said she had a large valuable collection of English china and art glass, and that she kept the cats to warn her of impending tremors & earthquakes. When the cats started to act a certain way, she made her collection safe by removing it from shelves. I never forgot that conservation.
My Darling Daughter is in Portland. I’ll help you worry.
Over the years, I have heard Berkland on various outlets.
Now he does have some credentials in the geophysics field.
And he has in the past talked about possible future events, with future events occurring, I’m not convinced that anyone can call that “predicting”.
Last Thursday evening at 10 PM PST I turned on Coast to Coast with George Noory. About 15 minutes into the intro hour/segment, he had Jim Berkland on to talk about the Russian predictions of a massive quake.
Berkland kinda rambled on about supermoons, etc, and ended his part of the segment with a prediction of a massive quake IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
By this time, it’s about 10:35 PST. Noory then went to chat with Richard Hoagland (another frequent C2C guest who’s credentials are questionable) who was, at that time, on a cruise somewhere in the Pacific.
The clock was ticking.
A few minutes into the segment, George announced he was getting reports of a large quake in Japan. It happened at 10:46 PST.
So the rest of the show was dedicated to finding out as much info as they could about the quake. A quake that Berkland, who had been on the show not 15 minutes before, had TOTALLY FAILED TO PREDICT OR EVEN SUGGEST...
At that point, Berkland lost all credibility to me. His tidal theories may still have merit. But to say that “There might be a 4.0 near LA” and then claim anything that amounts to a “hit” is total fantasy.
I'm going down into the New Madrid epicenter this afternoon. Hope you're right.
Mostly at us...
This geologost talks about fish and animals knowing before a large quake or disaster is about to strike, my question is what does the government know? I read a thread on here a month or two ago about the government putting out bids for a huge purchase of (millions of liters) bottled water and millions of MRE’s. I wonder if the government has been talking to all the fish and animals?
I can clearly see yer nuts...
I'm a Californian. We know earthquakes and how to build for them. The folks in the Midwest don't. All those pretty brick buildings will come tumbling down like so many houses of cards.
I agree that the "over due" assessments are a stretch. There's no indication that the New Madrid system has the sort of periodicity that the San Andreas system has. My concern is that even a moderate quake there would flatten cities like Memphis. I would be pleasantly surprised to learn that their building codes make even a passing reference to earthquake resistance.
She has never done that before. (In conversations, sure, often, out of the blue with no other conversation? This is a first)
He is. Perhaps he's also a nutter, but I tend to listen when he talks.
OTOH perhaps I'm a nutter as well. You pays your penny and you takes your choice...
Scientists don’t capriciously “reject” these ideas, on the whole, there just aren’t clear correlations. Don’t you think that the international fame that would come from discovering a true and measurable correlation would be an incentive to publish such a correlation?
Mainstream scientists are like other people with prejudices and all, but kicking and screaming they will be convinced by real and reproducible data.
This story is so very fresh in my mind as it happened last July.
My husband has had to travel for his job alot...so his being ‘out of the house’ isn’t anything new. We have a big German Sheppard/terrier/mutt mix of dog...a good boy...but not necessarily the smartest pooch ever.
My husband had a massive heart attack; had to have emergency surgery; and was in Intensive Care for 8 days...the first two of which he had a balloon pump in his heart to help keep it beating (and take some stress off of it). Our grown daughter moved home to stay with our two youngest sons (so I could be at the hospital). She said our dog Baxter was making her ‘crazy’ as he sat under her dad’s seat at the kitchen table and did this low, whimpering, gutteral noise. It was like a sob. He didn’t want to eat or play. He just laid their making this sound. Maybe he picked up on the stress of the kids...I don’t know...but, 48 hours into the ordeal the balloon had to be removed by the surgeon (in the CICU room). I told our daughter I would call her once I had spoken to the Doctor (after the balloon removal). Well, when I called home...Baxter was up and chasing his special green ball (pump had been successfully removed). He stopped his weird behavior.
Our family just knows that the dog had ‘tuned’ into something...and he knew when his best buddy was in danger; and when he was getting better.
Yes yes, but that don't matter and won't stop some of the religious sickos and those jealous of CA, for hoping for death and destruction of everyone in California..
A very ill, angry country America has become when many hope for death and harm to other fellow Americans...
Sick stuff...
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