Posted on 03/17/2011 6:56:17 PM PDT by Chattering Class of 58
A former United States Geological Survey scientist says a major quake on the West Coast is imminent.
Jim Berkland predicts earthquakes…accurately.
Never heard of him? Perhaps you should—especially if you live on or near the West Coast of the United States, or know someone that does.
Anyone with an average 80 percent success rate predicting earthquakes should command attention, and lately Berkland has been in the limelight of the national media.
"The people that say you cannot predict earthquakes, they don't know what they are talking about," Berkland told the Santa Cruz Sentinel during a 2009 interview.
Appearing on late night radio shows for many years, since the great quake and tsunami that struck northeastern Japan the retired geologist has been finding his booking calendar full. His unpronounceable and difficult-to-spell website, syzygyjob.com, has crashed several times after his latest appearances on FOXNews with Neil Cavuto and the popular talk radio host Michael Savage's show.
While Berkland has scored many direct hits with earthquake predictions—they fall within his self-described "seismec window"—his greatest claim to fame was his accurate prediction of the powerful 1989 temblor that rocked San Fransisco four days before it occurred.
Now the earthquake prognosticator admits he's worried about the prospects of a strong quake hitting the West Coast of the US sometime during March 2011, particularly around March 19th.
The "ring of fire" that encircles the Pacific rim includes the region from Alaska south to South America. During the past several years earthquake and volcanic activity has been on the upswing all along the rim except on the northeastern perimeter.
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Can’t Algore and his enviroloonies do something to stop this? Maybe they could each get a magnet and go stand on the North Pole or something.
March 19 is when the supermoon occurs.
Wrong. He makes predictions so vague they are mathematically almost guaranteed to come true, relying on enough people being too ignorant to notice.
Which got him fired...
For later.
There might be a relationship between solar discharges directed toward earth and earthquakes ..
Nonsense. He has predicted 100 of the last 10 earthquakes.
Besides, this blog, er, “news” source told us he is 80% accurate. So it must be true.
Did he predict the quake in Japan?
You really should put stuff like this in Bloggers.
Yes,...immediately after it hit..../s
Sure he did. The press release is in one of his desk drawers someplace.
He said there’s going to be an earthquake in the Americas. Somewhere. Why take chances? If May 19th comes and goes without a major quake, good. If the big one hits, I’m ready.
It is probably in his drawers all right.
I’ve noticed every year for about the last five years that the neighbors 4 cats would lye on the sidewalk up to the house and catch the last remaining rays of sun light about the time of daylight savings change.
I’ve been watching to see if they take up that habit again. Sorry to burst anyone’s bubble but the lazy bastards are doing it again.
Damn, I’d better go stock up on beer.
Oh great! I was so thankful that I didn’t wake up dead in a cloud of plutonium dust this morning and now there is this.
Ummm, between the 19th and 26th of this month doesn't seem overly vague...
Yeah; didn’t we have until 2012? Or was that zombies... hmmm.. maybe we’ll get both.
Iben Browning used to make predictions like that. He got a few right as well.
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