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“It’s really very simple to predict earthquakes, and anyone could do it,” Jim Berkland liked to say. “The hard part is being right.” Berkland, a retired geologist and avid writer who grew up and lived much of his later life in Glen Ellen, died last Friday after a lifetime of predicting quakes and making headlines. He was a few days shy of his 86th birthday.

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....

First Hour: Brigadier General Amy S. Courter comments on the possibility that Steve Fossett faked his death. Then, geologist Jim Berkland talks about today's quake in So. Cal. LISTEN ONLINE ON KFI IN LOS ANGELES - 10 P.M.Bio Geologist Jim Berkland was suspended from a California Government Geology Job when he made a prediction that a major quake would occur during the 1989 World Series in the Oakland Bay Area. It hit and the government told him to not make any more predictions. Now that he is retired, he publicly states quake windows. Mr. Berkland uses tidal flooding tables based...

Just felt it!!

A few nights ago, many people were mocking the post I put up regarding Coast to Coast with George Nourey. He had on geologist Jim Berkland. Berkland predicts earthquakes. I just spoke with him on the phone, and he is still predicting a 6+ earthquake for the period June 20-27. Let's see if he is right.