Hi All. I found this rather interesting. It reminds me a little of the VAN theory which as most know is steeped in controversy. Take Care…Don in creepy town

By Friedemann Freund
Principal Investigator, SETI Institute
posted: 20 October 2005
06:39 am ET

Our Earth is a restless planet. Occasionally – quite often, in some regions of the world – the restlessness turns deadly. Of all natural hazards, earthquakes are the most feared. They are feared because they seem to strike so unpredictably. Yet, for centuries, and even millennia, people living in seismically active regions have noted premonitory signals. The historical records talk of changes of the water level in wells, of strange weather, of ground-hugging fog, of unusual behavior of animals (both domestic and wild) that seem to feel the approach of a major earthquake. With the advent of modern science and technology the list of premonitory signals has become even longer. Among them are

Sporadic emissions of low to ultra low-frequency electromagnetic radiation from the ground

Occasional local magnetic field anomalies reaching a strength of half a percent of the Earth’s main dipole field

Changes in the lower atmosphere that are accompanied by the formation of haze and a reduction of moisture in the air

Large patches, often tens to hundreds of thousands of square kilometers in size, seen in night-time infrared satellite images where the land surface temperature seems to fluctuate rapidly

Passing perturbations in the ionosphere at 90 - 120 km altitude that affect the transmission of radio waves

Deciphering these signals and learning how to "read" them has remained a source of great frustration. Many seismologists have lost faith that earthquakes would ever become predictable beyond statistical probabilities, which leave uncertainties of years, even decades. Some seismologists have proclaimed categorically that, due to their chaotic nature, earthquakes are fundamentally unpredictable.

http://www.space.com/searchforlife/seti_freund_quakes_051020.html

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