From another list, I was sent:

OMNI Magazine September 1992

The recent spate of earthquakes in Georgia and Armenia, formerly of the
U.S.S.R., inflicted untold human suffering. But now, a Russian scientist
suggests that such earthquakes may do more than wreak physical havoc; they
may also create social conflict before they strike. The reason, according
to Dr. Feliks Yudakhin of the Academy of Sciences of Kyrgystan, lies in
environmental changes that occur before the main event. "Fluctuations of
electromagnetic and gravitational waves and gases emerging from the earth
all effect the human organism," he believes, putting people increasingly
on edge.

Yudakhin's theory follows on the heels of observations that animals behave
erratically in the hours preceding a strong earthquake. But Yudakhin goes
on to speculate that this same phenomenon underlies riots, strikes and
ethnic conflicts in the human realm as well.

Tom Heppenheimer, author of _The Coming Quake_, jokes that the
phenomenon "might explain the weirdness in Southern California." In a more
serious vein, however, he suggests that the social stress in the former
U.S.S.R. might be due to a variety of political and social factors - none
of them related to earthquakes at all.

Over the past year, thousands of Soviet citizenshave attributed the recent
upheavals in their society to a strange phenomenon in the heavens - UFOs.
Now, at least one Russian scientist is looking in the opposite directiion
to explain his country's ills.

Jim Ob..... (I didn't get the rest of his name....may he forgive me)