Subject: Jim Berkland Man Who Predicts Earthquakes.
Part 3. May 16, 2008.
This shows how animals act before a very large
earthquake.
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I didn't know about it at the time. Well, if the
earth is bulging up and down, maybe that's limbering up
the fault lines. And if they're meta-stable-ready to
fail-- this little extra stress of the movement of the
earth, the undulation, underneath this gravitational
stress, might trigger the fault into action. So I said,
hmm, we've had six quakes here-- the day of the full
moon, two days after the full moon, on the day of
perigee, six days after the new moon and perigee.
All six quakes that hit the Bay Area from my arrival
there in September until January 8th confirmed this
wild idea. So I thought, well, if it continues like
this, we should have a quake within the next week. I
told the folks around the office that there was likely
to be a quake around here in the next few days. They
said, how big? Well, these others were mainly 3's and
low 4's, and since this is even a higher tidal force,
probably a 4 to a 5. Two days later 4.4 hit down in
Buellor, and I said to myself, boy, this is simple.
What's so tough about predicting quakes? Why isn't
everyone using this method? I still don't know why
everybody isn't using it.
When I went to Peru in November of 74, 94, our
Peruvian of Inca descent said after the eclipse, I am
so happy you were able to see our eclipse. We in Peru
have a tradition we watch the eclipse, and then we wait
for the earthquake. I said, would you say that again
for my video camera, please? Totally caught me by
surprise- my idea, maintained by the Incas. So I had an
interview with her for like ten minutes with the video
camera. No doubt, they could see the relation****p. She
said, what's unusual is that we already had the quake.
Koosco shook with a 4 magnitude quake, three hours
after the moment of totality, she said. Usually it
takes a day or so, and it's possibly bigger.
The next day a 6.2 hit Peru, and there was no quakes
as strong for the first half of November. The strongest
quake in the world occurred the day after the total
eclipse, which lasted about four and a half minutes.
The one in Mexico lasted six minutes, and there was no
announced Mexican quake. But there was a Peruvian quake
on that same day, even though there only saw a partial
eclipse.
David: So this gave you some additional confirmation
that you were onto something.
James: Yeah, time and again. I mean, if you go into
the computer and ask for all the literature showing
earthquakes and tides, over three hundred titles come
up. So when a re****ter goes from me to the U.S.G.S. or
to Berkeley, and they say, oh no, we don't sup****t what
Berkland's doing. There's no evidence, no correlation-
it just shows they are blindly ignorant of the world
literature. They're just ignorant of it, and so I no
longer consider it my problem. I think it's their
problem. They're not looking at the evidence, and I see
it time and again. There's John Mack, Galileo,
whatever. If your idea doesn't match the ruling theory,
the mainstream opinion, there's something wrong with
you. So we have to have legislation, and off with his
head.
David: According to Thomas Kuhn novel approaches tend
to appeal to younger scientists, people in graduate
school, whereas the older establishment, which has more
invested in the past, is less open to new ideas.
James: Yes, so I've had a lot of good advice. My old
mentor with U.S.G.S. said, Jim, you know you probably
will never convince your severest critics. Your goal
should be to outlive them, or have your ideas outlive
them. And I've been so pleased because I have been
doing this since 74 with. My first couple years I kept
it under wraps because I valued my scientific
reputation. I didn't want to be iconoclast really. I
want to do my work, try to increase public safety on
geological matters, and try to resolve differences
between property owners in area or between different
scientific branches, and try to bring the Santa Clara
County up to speed. So with my work in the U.S.G.S., my
friends there, a lot of friends with the California
division of Mines and Geology and the Bureau of
Reclamation, I really felt needed. And for the first
fifteen years with the county I had hit my ultimate
niche. Everyday I was was excited to get up, and was
ready to go, thinking, what's today going to bring?
David: You'd been predicting earthquakes since 1974,
but this was primarily with tides and the moon. You
hadn't gotten interested in animals or the lost pet ads
yet?
James: No, not until 79, after five years. A lot of
things happened in 79. One thing I learned of was a
U.S.G.S. study that lasted four years, taking
predictions from numerologists, astrologers, psychics,
dreamers, whatever the source, and filing their
predictions. This is because they were being troubled
by having to answer all these wild ideas that people
come up and say, okay, there's going to be a quake
that's going to destroy Los Angeles. California is
going to slide into the sea. The last days of the great
state of California. That was called "The Book". Then
for several years it really disturbed the U.S.G.S.,
because they had to answer all these people that read
the book and loved it as gospel truth.
o, they decided, let's establish a track record,
which is the way to go. Take all of these people, and
say they're predicting. Okay, what did you say last
time? How come you missed that one? Why should we
believe you know? Good approach, that's great. So I
heard about this, and I sent my predictions into them,
with the newspaper articles and everything. And they
were trying to get me, while I was out in the field a
number of days, and they finally got through to me, and
they said, Jim, Jim, the computer spit out your name,
you've got the 99th percentile level, which means
there's only one chance in a hundred that what you're
doing is accidental.
But we think you've been lucky you know. Keep on
predicting and you fall back in the grass with the rest
of them. I said, well, gee that's good news.
Well, so fine, but if you tell some media person I
told you this I'll deny it. And that didn't bother me
too much either, because you know this is kind of
informal, and okay at least I'm achieving something
that caught his attention, and I'm sure they're going
to do something with this.
When they closed the program about a year later I
read in the summary that no one had achieved the 99th
percentile level, and no scientist had even bothered to
submit a prediction. I quickly called him. I said Roger
Hunter at the U.S.G.S. in Golden, Colorado. Roger, how
could you say that nobody hit the 99th percentile? I
know you told me not to tell the media, but I hit it.
And how could you say no scientist even bothered to
submit a prediction? I'm a fellow in the Geological
Society, and I'm a scientist. I published over 55
papers, and had responsible positions.
Well, yeah, that was a little wrong, he said. I meant
to say that an insufficient number of scientists
submitted predictions to make it statistically
meaningful. Well, that is certainly is far different
from saying none had done it, or none had hit 99th
percentile. He said, well, we'll probably correct that
in the final version or something. He never did.
The same thing happened when I joined Earthquake
Watch at SRI under contract with the U.S.G.S. to see if
they could reproduce what the Chinese had done. Before
the Haichang earthquake they had a system there, of
maybe a hundred thousand peasants measuring water
levels, checking radon with it's film exposure,
measuring little tilt-meters, doing simple things. So
they just day after day said, oh little tilt in the
ground here. Or they would see where the patterns of
earthquakes were. And animals especially-- farm
animals, wild animals, pets. And because of the
ac***ulation of data just before March 3, 1975 they
evacuated the city of Haichang of about 100,000 people.
They had lectures on communism, and had tents and
blankets and things up on the hill.
David: They evacuated everybody on the basis of what?
James: Mainly animals.
David: What did they notice?
James: There was water-level changes. There was radon
gas sudden increase. There was a pattern of small
earthquakes in an area where they hadn't had big
earthquakes before, and suddenly they stopped.
Meanwhile the zoo animals were pacing back and forth.
The birds were crying. Turtles made noises, like they
were shrieking. Fish were jumping out of the aquarium.
I've got the complete listing. I have probably a dozen
or two different things. The pheasants were crying at
night, and would not sleep on the ground like they
normally would do. The common thread, what I actually
have never seen anyone else even mention, but it's
quite clear in all these re****ts-- is that animals try
to leave their normal places of security prior to an
earthquake, on first awareness of an earthquake, which
sounds weird.
Why don't they go into security? Well, some do, but
those are not considered anomalous. If a cat jumps on
your lap and wants to be petted, that's not as
interesting as if he jumps up on top of the shelves,
leaps to the TV, knocks things down, and just runs
around the house like he's crazy. If he runs off, and
gets hit by a car or something, people say that's
unusual. There are many aspects of it.
Part 3.
John Winston. johnfw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jim Berkland The Man Who Predicts Earthquakes.
Part 4. May 17, 2008.
After having Jim on the the Community Channel TV
show called Science-faction that I used to host, a
lady gave me a personal telephone call. She said
that she didn't think much of most of the things I
talked about on the show but she demanded that I give
a personal telephone call just prior to the time that
Jim Berkland was going to come on my show because she
liked hearing from him.
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So you say why do they run away? Why don't they head
for some kind of security?
Well, look what people do. When the ground begins to
shake, if we suddenly get rocked here, really like a
repeat of Loma Prieta, we're not going to want to stay
in here and take a chance that it's going to topple
over on us. We're really going to be startled. Books
are going to start bouncing. The refrigerator may hop
across the floor.
Things are falling. Noise all over the place. You
hear the swimming pool out here, which we filled in,
because it lost about four feet of water out of that.
Some people lost more than that, so you want to get
outside, away from what is normally your place of
security, your office, your home. The tendency is to
get me out of here, so we rely on instinct instead of
natural thought processes.
David: What do you think it is the animals are
picking up on?
James: I am very confident that the major phenomena
that they are detecting is a change in the magnetic
field. I didn't know by what means they were detecting
it.
David: Why do you think that?
James: When Antonio Nefaradi first called me,
interrupting my dinner, I said, how long you been doing
this? And he says since April, and now this is
September. Well, how long in advance? A week to ten
days in advance they seem to run away, and then show up
in the Lost and Found column. And when he said that,
suddenly the light flashed on. A lot of my skepticism
began to recede, because six days before the 5.9 quake
at Coyote Lake on August 6, 1979, six days before on my
birthday, July 31st, our cat Rocky disappeared. We'd
had him for about two years. He never had never run
away before, but he was gone. I thought, gee he's been
hit by car or something. I didn't even think about
putting an item in the paper. I didn't even bother
putting a poster up. I asked a few of the neighbors if
they'd seen Rocky. No, nobody had. And the quake
happened, six days later- the strongest quake in the
Bay Area since 1911.
And I didn't associate it with the earthquake until a
month later when Antonio called me, and suddenly I
could just picture the light bulb over my head. Well,
Rocky followed this outlandish hypothesis, that the
animals ran away, and Rocky never appeared as a Lost
and Found item. But twelve other cats showed up in the
paper's Lost and Found. The normal was two or three at
that time, and suddenly it was twelve- the most he'd
ever seen in watching this for six months. So that made
me think that a lot of other cats didn't show up in the
paper either, and maybe there was something to this.
For the few months I would look at the Lost and Found
column much as you would look at the horoscope. You
know, I don't believe stuff, I just want to see what it
says, and there were no significant quakes. Then on the
20th of January, 1980, following the 79 quake, I got a
call early in the morning from my daughter who was just
about to head for high school. Daddy, Rocky's home. Six
months he'd been gone. I picture this poor emaciated
scrawny cat crawling in out of the woods or something.
He was sleek and fat,. Somebody had taken excellent
care of him. But he'd fled that veritable paradise four
days before the next five magnitude quake in the Bay
Area.
It didn't matter which home he was living in, he fled
it prior to the two biggest quakes since 1911.
And when I came home Rocky was there. He stayed
around home for one month, and then disappeared on the
20th of February, two days before the strongest
February shake in the Bay Area. So we haven't seem him
since. Not likely to, but he fit the pattern. And from
that point on I became a believer, and daily, the first
thing I turned to in the paper, was the Lost and Found
Column.
And I was startled this morning to see 21 missing
cats, the most in one year. That probably means a
significant quake within three weeks.
David: When you make a prediction, what are all the
different factors that you take into account?
James: Basically, I look at the tides. So I have this
tide calendar. I have the almanacs, and I get the
calendars that show the daily fluctuations of the tides
in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle. Of course,
they're mostly peaked at the same day, although the
amplitude of the tide varies tremendously as you go
north. Here the normal tide is between four and four
and a half feet, between high and low for a single day,
the same as Los Angeles. But up in Seattle the normal
tide's about eight or nine feet, and the peak tide's
around sixteen or seventeen feet.
Here the peak tides are eight or night feet, and in
Alaska the high tide is thirty feet, instead of the
normal fifteen or twenty. And, of course, in the Bay of
Fundy, where my wife was born, 55 foot tide.
So back in 1962, I'd just been at this like three
years with the animals. I noticed we were going to have
a 8.9 foot tide on the ninth of January, the highest
I've ever seen. Year after year, the highest would be
8.4, 8.5, next year it's going to 8.3, so 8.9 is a
tremendous tide.
I expected we'd have a quake around here during that
seismic window, and we didn't. But back in New
Brunswick on the next Bay of Fundy they had a 5.9, the
strongest in 126 years.
And that previous one was a time of extremely high
tide. In fact, it was covered in the world literature
on tides.
So that summer we went back to visit my wife's folks,
and I stopped off at the university. We were in a
window there, and I was noticing the seismograph in the
university hall suddenly began to bang and bang.
It was a 7.0 magnitude quake in Panama, and I
predicted that the world would see a 7 during that
period. Normally you get one 7 a month. So if you have
an 8 day period, you have a one in four chance of being
right that hit the seven.
So I called the Geology Department, and the geologist
came down to talk me. I said, how do you do? I'm a
geologist from California, and I have an idea about
timing of earthquakes in general, and yours in
particular. And, he said, well, it was on the day of
this 55 foot tide in the Bay of Fundy, the day of an
eclipse of the moon, and these extra stresses from the
tide forces we think triggered a weak place in the
fault. I said, well, congratulations, that's my same
idea. I'd wish you'd come to California and talk to
some of my colleagues.
David: So that's what you think is happening. That
there's a weak point along the faults that's just
waiting to happen, and then when the extra
gravitational pull comes, it gives it that extra ****ge
to just push it into action.
James: Yes. My clearer picture involves three
factors. One is the pure fluction of this island earth
up and down about three feet under the full moon. We're
pulled up about three feet higher. The earth is about.
three feet greater in diameter. Maybe it's six feet, on
either side. But anyway on one side of the earth it's
about three feet higher than it was at low tide when
the moon's rising or setting. So just that fluction may
cause a change. Also the ocean tide is coming in and
out. Every foot of water adds a load to the earth's
crust of about one million tons per square mile.
So if you've got six hundred square miles of it the
San Francisco Bay in the delta, and every six hours it
comes in, six hundred times. Say it's an eight foot
tide, between high and low, a change of 8 X 600 X one
million tons-- tremendous ****ft of load. And boat-lines
are parallel to the coast, and a tide comes on.
And it's on this block, and then it's on the block in
back there.
It's a relatively fast period. It's like taking a
wire between your fingers, especially copper, and you
wiggle and wiggle it, until somewhere around wiggle ten
and twenty, you get a quick friction, and you get the
metal taking a pop.
David: How do you see the relation****p between that
and what you think the animals are picking up-- which
you think is a change in the magnetic field-- as being
related?
James: Almost any rock on earth is going to have some
magnetite in it--spirel magnetic metal, the most
highly magnetic natural substance on earth. If you are
panning for gold, most of the black sand is magnetite--
it could be chromite, franklinite or some of the
spinels, which are the most magnetic materials. But
they're also dense, and very resistant. So that's why
they end up in the dregs at the bottom along with gold.
The gold is quite a bit heavier, but the sand-- after
you wash away most the quartz and the felsbar, the
micas and these layer things, you got these real dense
ferrel-magnetic minerals in the bottom.
So you could run a magnet in gold pan and it'll pull
away all this magnetic material. And if you're lucky
you have a little ring of gold underneath that's not
magnetic. So if you have a rock, and you put it in a
compressor in the laboratory, and you have a magnet
nearby, it will change its magnetic properties under
stress. And if you heat or cool it, the same thing.
Part 4.
John Winston. johnfw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Where Is The Ark Of The Covenant?
May 16, 2008.
These people think they know where the Ark Of The
Covenant is today. This comes from The Consp-racy
Journal.
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- HE FLOATS THROUGH THE AIR DEPARTMENT -
The Ancient S-crets of Levitation
Great stone structures and megaliths around the world
stand as mysteries to how they were constructed. Is it
possible their builders possessed the powers of defying
gravity?
Did ancient civilizations possess knowledge that has
since been lost to science? Were amazing technologies
available to the ancient Egyptians that enabled them to
construct the pyramids - technologies that have somehow
been forgotten?
The ruins of several ancient civilizations - from
Stonehenge to the pyramids - show that they used
massive stones to construct their monuments. A basic
question is why? Why use stone pieces of such enormous
size and weight when the same structures could have
been constructed with more easily managed smaller
blocks - much like we use bricks and cinderblocks
today?
Could part of the answer be that these ancients had a
method of lifting and moving these massive stones -
some weighing several tons - that made the task as easy
and manageable as lifting a two-pound brick? The
ancients, some researchers suggest, may have mastered
the art of levitation, through sonics or some other
obscure method, that allowed them to defy gravity and
manipulate massive objects with ease.
The Egyptian Pyramids
How the great pyramids of Egypt were built has been
the subject of debate for millennia. The fact is, no
one really knows for certain exactly how they were
constructed. The current estimates of mainstream
science contends that it took a workforce of 4,000
to 5,000 men 20 years to build the Great Pyramid using
ropes, pulleys, ramps, ingenuity and brute force.
And that very well may have been the case. But there
is an intriguing passage in a history text by the 10th
century Arab historian, Abul Hasan Ali Al-Masudi, known
as the Herodotus of the Arabs. Al-Masudi had traveled
much of the known world in his day before settling in
Egypt, and he had written a 30-volume history of the
world. He too was struck by the magnificence of the
Egyptian pyramids and wrote about how their great stone
blocks were trans****ted. First, he said, a "magic
papyrus" (paper) was placed under the stone to be
moved. Then the stone was struck with a metal rod that
caused the stone to levitate and move along a path
paved with stones and fenced on either side by metal
poles. The stone would travel along the path, wrote
Al-Masudi, for a distance of about 50 meters and then
settle to the ground. The process would then be
repeated until the builders had the stone where they
wanted it.
Considering that the pyramids were already thousands
of years old when Al-Masudi wrote this explanation, we
have to wonder where he got his information. Was it
part of an oral history that was passed down from
generation to generation in Egypt? The unusual details
of the story raise that possibility. Or was this just a
fanciful story concocted by a talented writer who -
like many who marvel at the pyramids today - concluded
that there must have been some extraordinary magical
forces employed to build such a magnificent structure?
If we take the story at face value, what kind of
levitation forces were involved? Did the striking of
the rock create vibrations that resulted in sonic
levitation? Or did the layout of stones and rods create
a magnetic levitation? If so, the science accounting
for either scenario is unknown to us today.
Coral Castle
How unfortunate that these sec-ets of levitation - if
they ever existed - are lost to antiquity or the
remoteness of the Himalayas. They seem to be forever
elusive to modern Western man. Or are they?
Beginning in 1920, Edward Leedskalnin, a 5-ft. tall,
100-lb. Latvian immigrant, began to build a remarkable
structure in Homestead, Florida. Over a 20-year period,
Leedskalnin single-handedly build a home he originally
called "Rock Gate Park," but has since been named Coral
Castle. Working in secr-t - often at night -
Leedskalnin was somehow able to quarry, fa****on,
trans****t and constructed the impressive edifices and
sculptures of his unique home from large blocks of
heavy coral rock.
It's estimated that 1,000 tons of coral rock were
used in construction of the walls and towers, and an
additional 100 tons of it were carved into furniture
and art objects:
* An obelisk he raised weighs 28 tons.
* The wall surrounding Coral Castle stands 8 ft. tall
and consists of large blocks each weighing several
tons.
* Large stone crescents are perched atop 20-ft.-high
walls.
* A 9-ton swinging gate that moves at the touch of a
finger guards the eastern wall.
* The largest rock on the property weighs an
estimated 35 tons.
* Some stones are twice the weight of the largest
blocks in the Great Pyramid at Giza.
All this he did alone and without heavy machinery. No
one was ever witness to how Leedskalnin was able to
move and lift such enormous objects, although it is
claimed that some spying teenagers saw him "float coral
blocks through the air like hydrogen balloons."
Leedskalnin was highly sec-etive about his methods,
saying only at one point, "I have discovered the
s-crets of the pyramids. I have found out how the
Egyptians and the ancient builders in Peru, Yucatan and
Asia, with only primitive tools, raised and set in
place blocks of stone weighing many tons."
If Leedskalnin had indeed rediscovered the ancient
se-rets of levitation, he took them with him to his
grave.
Source: Paranormal.about.com
http://paranormal.about.com/library/weekly/aa031901a.htm
- HISTORIES MYSTERIES DEPARTMENT -
German Archaeologist on Trail of Ark of the Covenant
BERLIN - It is only a breathless Hollywood script:
treasure-hunter Indiana Jones races with German
archaeologists to track down the fabled Ark of the
Covenant, the chest that held the stone tablets on
which the Ten Commandments were etched.
Now German researchers claim to have found the
remains of the palace of the Queen of Sheba - and an
altar that may have held the Ark.
The discovery, recently announced by the University
of Hamburg, has stirred skeptical rumblings from the
archaeological community.
The location of the Ark, indeed its existence, has
been a source of controversy for centuries. Regarded as
the most precious treasure of ancient J-daism, it is
at the heart of a debate about whether archaeology
should chronicle the rise and fall of civilizations or
explore the boundaries between myth and ancient
history.
Professor Helmut Ziegert, of the archaeological
institute at the University of Hamburg, has been
supervising a dig in Aksum, northern Ethiopia, since
1999.
"From the dating, its position and the details that
we have found, I am sure that this is the palace," he
said.
The palace, that is, of the Queen of Sheba, who is
believed to have lived in the 10th century B.C. After
she died, her son and successor, Menelek, replaced the
palace with a temple dedicated to Sirius.
The German researchers believe that the Ark was taken
from Jerusalem by the queen - who had a liaison with
King Solomon - and built into the altar to Sirius.
"The results we have suggest that a Cult of Sothis
developed in Ethiopia with the arrival of J-daism and
the Ark of the Covenant, and continued until 600 A.D.,"
an announcement by the University of Hamburg on behalf
of the research team said.
So this is the ancient Greek name for the star
Sirius.
The Ark was made, according to the B-ble, of
gold-plated acacia wood and topped with two golden
a-gels. It is said to be a source of great power. In
about 586 B.C., when the Babylonians conquered the
I-raelites, the Ark vanished.
For many centuries finding it has been one of the
great quests - inspiration not only for the 1981 film
"Raiders of the Lost Ark," but also for countries
seeking to position themselves in the mainstream of
ancient civilization.
Many archaeologists believe that their profession
should not be in the business of myth-chasing. Even if
the Ark were found, it would be impossible to establish
scientifically whether it was the original receptacle
for the Ten Commandments.
Iris Gerlach of the German Archaeological Institute
in Sanaa, Yemen, believes the r-ligious center of Sheba
is in present-day Yemen.
Although she does not go head-to-head with her
colleague Professor Ziegert, the message is clear: A
relic such as the Ark would have been stored in an
im****tant re-igious city rather than in Aksum.
- The location of the Ark has been put in Egypt,
Zimbabwe and even Ireland, where the Hill of Tara was
excavated.
- The Ethiopian holy town of Aksum is regarded as a
more credible site.
- Ethiopians believe that it is defended by monks in
the c-urch of St. M-ry of Z-on and is seen only by the
guardian of the Ark, making it impossible to verify.
(JW IMHO I think they are correct. It is inside the
walls of the ch-rch taken care on by a monk and there
are many quards around the chu-ch at all times, armed
with automatic rifles. They will sho-t you if you try
to get in and look at the Ark.)
John Winston. johnfw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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