Earthquakes as Crystal Fractures?

Jerry Wayne Decker ( jwdatwork@yahoo.com )
Wed, 14 Jul 1999 08:50:58 -0700 (PDT)

Hi Folks!

Do you remember the stories about the earth having the
properties of a giant crystal? With all the ley
lines, dragon currents, the American Indian legend of
the 'Spider Woman' with a web that creates and holds
together the earth, Bruce Cathies grid harmonics and
many others, this article is strikingly familiar.

Right before earthquakes, which are fractures in the
earth, just like crystals, there are electrical
disturbances (piezo??) which can be detected and
triangulated with the right sensor arrangement to
locate the source...interesting...

http://www.aip.org/enews/physnews/1997/split/pnu350-2.htm

DO EARTHQUAKES HAVE ELECTRICAL PRECURSORS? The elastic
waves measured by seismometers are transmitted by the
flexing crust while an earthquake is doing its worst.
But some scientists believe that flexing also goes on
in the hours and even weeks before a quake.

Too small to be detected seismically, the flexing
might well be sensed electrically. As underground
strata rearrange themselves before a quake, the
thinking goes, pockets of water are squeezed into new
configurations, changing local conduction properties,
which can be monitored with buried electrodes.

On this basis Panayiotis Varotsos at the University of
Athens (011-30-1-894-9849,
pvaro@leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr), has reportedly
predicted certain quakes in Greece weeks ahead of time
by triangulating voltage differentials at the level of
10 millivolts/km over distances of 100 km. (Some
skeptics dispute this assertion.)

In new research, Varotsos buttresses his claims with
laboratory studies of another system under pressure
which puts out transient electrical signals before it
fractures, namely a crystal containing a variety of
dislocations and defects.

Conductivity patterns in the crystal convince Varotsos
that analogous patterns (although on a much bigger
distance scale) observed in the buried electrode
arrays constitute a true earthquake precursor.

(Varotsos et al., Journal of Applied Physics, 1 Jan,
1998; journalists can obtain the paper from
physnews@aip.org.)

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