Here is a link and quote from American Scientist. While it Park's method will probably turn out to be nonsense, unless this has already been shown to be the case, some scientist (physicist) with time on his/her hands
might want to look into this.
"Thousands Flee After India Passes Along Sham Warning

Misinformation and chaos filled disaster's breach last week as thousands fled coastal areas of India and Sri Lanka after the Indian government put out a public warning that another earthquake, and subsequent tsunami, was imminent. The basis for the alarm: Readings supposedly taken by a contraption housed in the back of a pickup truck in Oregon. The warning was originally posted to the Web site of Terra Research and Consulting Services. The business's owner, Larry Park, claims to be a computer expert and earthquake forecaster, based on a new type of electromagnetic radiation he's discovered. He has no formal training in geology, and his theories have not been peer-reviewed.

So why did the Indian government act? Indian Science and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal explained that the U.S. office of the Indian Space Research Organization saw the prediction posted on Park's Web site, contacted Park, and then passed along the dire warning to the government in New Dehli. In retrospect, Sibal called Park's conclusion "unscientific hogwash," but it was the S&T Ministry that passed the warning along to the Home Ministry, which issued the warning. Sibal said he wasn't consulted before that alarm was sounded.

Park has a different version of events. He says he alerted filmmaker Mike McNulty, who passed the warning along to the U.S. embassies of India, Indonesia and Australia. On Dec. 30, McNulty, nominated for an Oscar for his 1998 documentary film "Waco: The Rules of Engagement" about the FBI siege of the Branch Davidians compound, told the AP "the forecast is January 1—it isn't game over yet."

The deadline passed, of course—so "game over" for Park's prediction. "There are lots of these charlatans out there, and the more publicity they get the more money they make," Steve Malone of the Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network at the University of Washington told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. "There is no way to predict earthquakes ahead of time yet that's proven."
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Chris

• Larry Park-American scientist