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Quake to Hit Los Angeles By September 5th (6.4 Richter or Higher)
Sydney Morning Herald & Agence France Presse ^ | April 15, 2004 | wire staff

Posted on 04/15/2004 2:01:12 PM PDT by threat matrix

A US geophysicist has set the scientific world ablaze by claming to have cracked the holy grail: accurate earthquake prediction, and warning that a big one will hit southern California by September 5.

Russian born UCLA professor Vladimir Keilis-Borok says he can forsee major quakes by tracking minor tremblers and historical patterns in seismic hotspots that could indicate more violent shaking is on the way.

And he has made the chilling prediction that a quake measuring at least 6.4 magintude on the Richter scale will hit a 32,000 square km area of southern California bt September 5.

The team at the UCLA Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics accurately predicted a 6.5 magnitude earthquake in central California last December as well as an 8.1 magnitude trembler that struck the Japanese island of Hokkaido in September.

A major quake will hit an area that stretches across desert regions to the east of Los Angeles, home to about nine million people, including the Mojave desert and the resort town of Palm Springs, which lies near the notorious San Andreas fault.

(Excerpt) Read more at smh.com.au ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: earthquake; palmsprings; prediction; predictions; thebigone; ucla
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To: WinOne4TheGipper
Do you consider this posting to be the moral-equivalent of a PDB? If so, what Justice Department lawyer wrote the legal memo covering your authorization to warn the citizens?
101 posted on 04/15/2004 5:23:10 PM PDT by pointsal
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To: xJones
Learn to swim
102 posted on 04/15/2004 5:25:25 PM PDT by hookman
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To: truthkeeper
ping
103 posted on 04/15/2004 5:34:22 PM PDT by novacation
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To: boris
That's why I won't move there. If you get your biggie it's gonna reduce Bill Gates' property values.
A big quake could set off Mt. Rainier, and oh, brother...

Don't blame you. And as they remind us, Rainier is not a dormant volcano. Besides, you don't want to move to Seattle anyway -- it's so gray and drizzly here. Every spring I have to remove moss from the house's exterior walls and the front walk. And before we had a house with a garage, my pickup. (Honest.)

104 posted on 04/15/2004 5:35:03 PM PDT by Eala (Sacrificing tagline fame for... TRAD ANGLICAN RESOURCE PAGE: http://eala.freeservers.com/anglican)
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To: pointsal
It's a joke...
105 posted on 04/15/2004 5:43:30 PM PDT by WinOne4TheGipper ((Dead) Air America- Another liberal miserable failure)
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To: dstarr
Really? That's close to home for me.
106 posted on 04/15/2004 5:49:39 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (Proud member of P.O.O.P., People Offended by Offended People.)
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To: threat matrix
Oh, gee, living in southern California is too dangerous...

You guys should move here to Tornado alley instead. At least you can see tornadoes coming before they hit you...
107 posted on 04/15/2004 5:52:20 PM PDT by LadyDoc (liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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To: threat matrix
Yikes....our house is on top of the San Andreas Fault near the Pasadena border. WEll....I had better get the flashlights ready with fresh batteries....but where to store them safely is the question. We lost a porch and had some structure damage in the Sylmar and Northridge both!
108 posted on 04/15/2004 5:54:45 PM PDT by pollywog (Psalm 121;1 I Lift mine eyes to the hills from whence cometh my help.)
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To: threat matrix
Christopher Reeve is out of action on this one, no taking Margot Kidder and reversing the earths rotation.

If Gene Hackman starts buying up desert land in anticipation of it becoming oceanfront property, head for the hills!

109 posted on 04/15/2004 6:00:28 PM PDT by IndyTiger
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To: appalachian_dweller
{{{Yes, it scares me}}} I've been as prepared as possible since my first earthquake, but you never get used to them. I love the post after your ping that says "hope it will be in the desert". Well, a lot of people live in the desert now, so it will not be a pretty picture wherever it hits.
110 posted on 04/15/2004 6:08:02 PM PDT by WestCoastGal ("Hire paranoids, they may have a high false alarm rate, but they discover all the plots" Rumsfeld)
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To: Junior
Depends if you like the dragon lady or not!!
111 posted on 04/15/2004 6:11:48 PM PDT by Springman
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To: threat matrix
Keep your shoes by the bed. Otherewise, there could be a lot of glass between your bare feet and where you last parked your shoes.

And stock up on velcro!
112 posted on 04/15/2004 6:38:59 PM PDT by BJungNan
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To: John H K
Nigel: ...the numbers all go to eleven. Look...right across the board.
Marty: Ahh...oh, I see....
Nigel: Eleven...eleven...eleven....
Marty: And most of these amps go up to ten.
Nigel: Exactly.
Marty: Does that mean it's...louder? Is it any louder?
Nigel: Well, it's one louder, isn't it?
Nigel: ...One louder.
Marty: Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?
[pause]
Nigel: These go to eleven.
113 posted on 04/15/2004 6:52:41 PM PDT by xp38
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To: novacation
I'm ready.
114 posted on 04/15/2004 6:53:52 PM PDT by truthkeeper
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To: John H K
Here's a little entertainment. It covers France and Kalifornia. Flash file with some strong language.

The End of the World

115 posted on 04/15/2004 6:55:13 PM PDT by Jaded
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To: WinOne4TheGipper
"It's Bush's fault!!! Or will be..."

I can see it now; the entire network of fault lines in the US, maybe even in the world, will be renamed.....the Bush Fault.

116 posted on 04/15/2004 7:00:27 PM PDT by sweetliberty ("Better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.")
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To: John H K
I read on internet of this movie...and sure it will be to Russian television in year or so...as much true American junk comes to Russian television...Zina and Hercuslak and other such truelly dumb shows....anyways, off on tangent...seems they show huge chunk of Cali falling to sea...never mind it is mountainous areas that fall. I have been to San Francisco...ok, I could see area seperating from mainland but sinking? Haha. Oh and seen some US airplane crash movies and one of island with volcano going and peoples trying to survive giant flying lava balls...must say, just like dumb asteroid movie with Bruce Willis...both volcano and asteroid had very good aim.
117 posted on 04/15/2004 7:51:55 PM PDT by RussianConservative (Xristos: the Light of the World)
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To: threat matrix
6.4 is NOT the big one.
118 posted on 04/15/2004 7:57:36 PM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: WinOne4TheGipper
"'s Bush's fault!!! Or will be..."

well, look. He HAS been warned.

119 posted on 04/15/2004 10:00:58 PM PDT by paulsy
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To: California74
Well, you're the first person I've run across to claim Hector Mine as part of the Los Angeles area, though I realize this guy is casting a wide net (again, playing the odds).
120 posted on 04/15/2004 10:18:29 PM PDT by william clark
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