Posted on 01/10/2018 5:50:35 PM PST by Patriot777
Scientists have detected electromagnetic anomalies before major earthquakes, like the magnitude 9.0 event that struck Japan in 2011, triggering a massive tsunami that wiped out coastal communities like Ōfunato, shown above.
Can electric signals in Earths atmosphere predict earthquakes?
By Julia RosenDec. 21, 2015 , 1:45 PM
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIAAsk seismologists when theyll be able to predict earthquakes, and the answer is generally: sometime between the distant future and never. Although there have been some promising leads over the years, the history of earthquake forecasting is littered with false starts and pseudoscience. However, some scientists think that Earths crust may give hints before it ruptures, in the form of electromagnetic anomalies in the ground and atmosphere that occur minutes to days before an earthquake. Last week, here at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union, researchers shared their evolving understanding of these phenomenaand how they might be used to predict deadly quakes.
Kosuke Heki, a geophysicist at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan, first got interested in the subject when he spotted an increase in the total electron content of the ionospherethe charged outermost layer of the atmosphereabove Tohoku about 40 minutes before the magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck in 2011. Heki had long used GPS data to study ionospheric responses to earthquakes, which occur when the sudden movement of Earths crust reverberates through the atmosphere. Ionospheric disturbances interfere with the communication between GPS satellites and receivers, leaving a fingerprint at specific radio frequencies that researchers can tease out.
In 2011, Heki was skeptical of electromagnetic precursors. But since then, he has used the worlds growing array of GPS stations to identify similar signals before nine other major earthquakes, he explained at the meeting. In addition, Heki has found that earlier anomalies precede stronger earthquakes, potentially reflecting the longer time needed to initiate rupture along larger segments of a fault.
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Larry....
Do you mind if I call you Larry?
I could call you Steve but then you probably wouldnt know that I was talking to you.
Im not sure I know what anthropornographic plate tactics is?
I spent years studying tactics at the French school, The Sorbet. Great ice cream there.
We threw cups and saucers at each other at lunch, but plate tactics must have been for the advanced students. They eat snails, too, those Frenchmen. Slam em down like theres no tomorrow, which, of course, they dont have in France.
Anyway.....
My wife told me shed shoot me if she caught me looking at snail pornography on the internet, and shes a really good shot. You could stand sideways from her at fifty yards and she could shoot the buttons off your shirt and all youd feel is the wind from the bullets whizzing by.
Now I have a headache.
What I take from this is that they can see an anomaly and then scream “Earthquake!” After which people get to panic for anywhere from 40 minutes to a week all the while not knowing where the quake might be.
Seems like the theory needs more work. It IS grant time isn’t it?
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Wait, Steve, I mean Larry, is that a little Panda Bear that has been run over by this French lunch wagon and trapped up front?
It obviously paid a visit to Panda Express.
Not sure what the implied pornographic themes are, but I find the snail ass-grabbing troubling yet I can’t look away.
And I want a plate of sweet and sour techtonic panda.
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>> “Do Electromagnetic Anomalies In Atmosphere Herald Earthquakes?” <<
No, but the massive friction, and piezo-electric discharges fron compressed rock formations do create atmospheric discharges.
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The ‘71 Sylmar quake damn near threw me out of my bed. We lived in Compton, roughly 40 miles away from the epicenter.
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That is plausible. The hard part for me is how does the stress induced electromagnetism penetrate miles of crust?
I would think it's the same way that the magnetic field generated at the Earth's core penetrates thousands of miles of magma and crust and reaches way out into space. The difference is in the scale.
A point missed by many. The 'rubbing' of these masses very likely generates large amounts of 'static electricity' much like rubbing a balloon with a sweater. That 'charge' has to go somewhere.
Well, you see, there is a deposit of rubber on one side of the fault, and a deposit of hair on the other side of the fault, so when they start rubbing against each other, it creates a buildup of static electricity.
Probably has more to do with John Kerry's visit.
I know of the '91 Sylmar quake, having been in Northridge when it happened, but didn't know there had also been one in '71.
Interesting! Thanks! :o]
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