Replies

bboop wrote: " 'Historically, hydrogen sulphide gas has often been forced out of the ground in areas because of the pressure created by an immanent large earthquake.'

My husband is a geologist. He does not buy the 'this happens before an EQ' because if it were true, they'd have been predicting earthquakes for a long time now, and they would use the early warnings to set off alarms for the citizens.

He thinks it has to do with muggy air + high heat + complex sewer systems with air captured in them due to the storms and humidity."

Bboop, please thank your husband for me. He's a genius and I agree with him. :)

Here's what I posted.

Unfortunately there still is no scientifically proven predictor of an impending earthquake. The foul odors today here in the Los Angeles area cannot be scientifically or reasonably assumed to indicate an impending major earthquake. However that does not rule out a major earthquake occurring soon.

This is absolutely true. There could be a thousand years of a million people noticing similiar pre-earthquake events, and according to modern science, if those observations were not standardized and correlated into a reproduceable model and peer-reviewed, there would still not be a "scientifically proven predictor of an impending earthquake."

On the other hand, "in 1931 the mathematician and logician Kurt Godel proved that within a formal system questions exist that are neither provable nor disprovable on the basis of the axioms that define the system. This is known as Godel's Undecidability Theorem. He also showed that in a sufficiently rich formal system in which decidability of all questions is required, there will be contradictory statements. This is known as his Incompleteness Theorem. (http://www.exploratorium.edu/complexity/CompLexicon/godel.html)

In other words, Godel scientifically and mathematically proved that there are truths which science can never prove, and untruths which science can never disprove, and therefor science can NEVER be the last word on the truth.

So I'd say, when a hundred square miles smells like sulfer, and the wind is blowing the wrong direction, and th media keeps talking about dead fish instead of sulfur, and people report (in a non-peer reviewed manner) the same smell numerous times throughout history before large earthquakes, well, that's what the government is FOR - to tell you whether to worry. And look - the government is telling you not to worry.

So that's that.