(Plan for quake 'warning system'; Digg it if you love it!)
http://digg.com/general_sciences/Plan_f ... ing_system
My note thereabouts:I wrote:Snap! That's awesome...
"Nasa scientists have said they could be on the verge of a breakthrough in their efforts to forecast earthquakes.
Researchers say they have found a close link between electrical disturbances on the edge of our atmosphere and impending quakes on the ground below.
Just such a signal was spotted in the days leading up to the recent devastating event in China."
Reminds me of a series of articles I read once upon a time:
(Earth: A Self-repairing Capacitor)
http://thunderbolts.info/tpod/2004/arch/040927eart ...
(Seeing Circuits [1])
http://thunderbolts.info/tpod/2005/arch05/050112se ...
(Sunspots and Earthquakes)
http://thunderbolts.info/tpod/2005/arch05/051221ea ...
Very interesting!
Forgot to note this possibly related bit before the time to edit my comment was over:
(Electric Space Weather Baffles Scientists)
http://thunderbolts.info/tpod/2007/arch ... eather.htm
The difficulties encountered in connection with p-holes are similar to others that have punctuated the history of science. The discovery of the p-holes as dormant yet powerful charge carriers in the Earth's crust calls for a new paradigm in earthquake research and beyond. More often than not, any call for a new paradigm elicits opposition. Freund closes with a quote from the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer: "all truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
If Freund has a problem getting such a simple idea accepted, how much more difficult is it going to be to get both astronomers and geoscientists to accept that the Earth is a charged body in an Electric Universe?
The abstract wrote:This paper describes some unanticipated effects of the normal modes of the sun on engineering and scientific systems. We begin with historical, scientific, and statistical background, then present evidence for the effects of solar modes on various systems. Engineering evidence for these modes was first noticed in an investigation of communications satellite failures and second in a study of excessive dropped calls in cellular phone systems. The paper also includes several sections on multitaper estimates of spectra, canonical coherences, robust, and cyclostationary variants of multitapering, and related statistical techniques used to separate the various components of this complex system. In our attempt to understand this unexpected source of problems, we have found that solar modes are detectable in the interplanetary magnetic fields and energetic particles at the Ulysses spacecraft, five astronomical units from the Earth. These modes couple into the magnetosphere, the ionosphere, the geomagnetic field, and atmospheric pressure. Estimates of the power spectrum of data from solar radio telescopes and induced voltages on ocean cables show what appear to be solar modes at both lower and higher frequencies than the optically measured solar p-modes. Most surprisingly, these modes are easily detected in seismic data, where they literally shake the Earth.
StevenO wrote:Sorry, I can't provide a link yet, but I also have seen an article where major lightning discharges were linked to dips in the ionosphere.
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NEW-ORLEANS, Jan.- 13, 3812.
Dear Sir,
Agreeably to my promise in the last communication which I had the pleasure of making you, I present a further detail of the late earthquake.
Its range appears to have been by no means confined to the Mississippi. It was felt in some degree throughout the Indiana Territory, and the states of Oho and Kentucky and Tennessee. I have conversed with gentlemen from Louisville and Lexington, (in Kentucky) who state, that it was severe in both those places. At the latter, indeed, it continued for twelve days, and did some inconsiderable injuries to several dwellings. From thence it ranged the Ohio River, increasing in force until it entered the Mississippi, and extending down that river to Natchez, and probably a little lower. Beyond this it was not perceived.
It is a singular, but well authenticated fact, that in several places on the Mississippi, where the shocks were most severe, the earth was rent (as it were) by two distinct processes. By one it was burst asunder and instantaneously closed, leaving no traces whatever of the shock; by the other it was rent, and an electric flash ran along the surface, tearing the earth to pieces in its progress. These last were generally attended with an explosion, and streams of matter, in a liquid state, gushed from the gaps, which were left open when the shocks subsided, and were in many instances of an immense depth.
It is also reported, through the medium of some Indians from the country adjacent to the Washita, who arrived a few days since at the Walnut Hills, some distance above Natchez, that the Burning Mountains, up the Washita River, had been rent to its base. This information I received from a settler at the Hill, and his appearance was such as to attach credit to his information.
Your obedient servant,
WM. L. PIERCE.
Lloyd wrote:- The liquid or molten matter sounds like lava. I wonder if that's been found in the New Madrid area or beyond.
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