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| PravdaMcNugget: Russian Scientist Predicted Tsunami Two Days Before It Hit Southeast Asia |
| 2005-03-02 |
| And now, the Most Misleading Article Summary Oscar is awarded to... Pravda, for: US forces supposedly used a secret weapon in Iraq, which resulted in a powerful earthquake Viktor Bokov, a scientist from St.Petersburg, deals with short-term earthquake forecasts. The information about the forthcoming disaster in Southeast Asia, which killed 215,000 people, appeared on the website of the Arctic and Antarctic Institute (on which Bokov's forecasts are regularly published) two days before the tsunami hit the Asian shores. This could be interesting, if true... "Such an important event was left without any attention. I cannot come to the Russian government and just tell them that an upcoming natural disaster will kill tens of thousands of people. I tried to work in the EMERCOM of Russia, and they were very interested in my methods. As soon as they grasped the idea of my work, they immediately turned my services down and started working alone, forecasting earthquakes. Their work was not successful, though," the scientist said.... Not less than ten earthquakes occur in the world on a daily basis. Viktor Bokov predicts them several days before they rock the ground. Specialists from Japan and Russia's Far East use the scientist's forecasts regularly to avoid any victims in seismically dangerous areas... Alleged predictions of Turkish and Algerian quakes deleted ...Viktor Bokov's method is based on observations of daily weather changes. Each part of the globe is characterized with its certain peculiarities that may cause an earthquake. "The Antarctic Institute receives the data from the European weather forecasts center every day. It is enough for me just to have a look at it to realize where a quake is likely to occur. The sun and the atmospheric pressure have the largest influence on the seismological situation on our planet. The Earth's atmosphere weighs 512 trillion tons. This mass of air has a permanent enormous pressure on Earth, making landscape hills and plains. As soon as the atmosphere increases, the tectonic activity grows too; the ground starts shaking when the tension in tectonic plates reaches its peak. Forecasts of the St. Petersburg scientist are more precise than any other seismological forecasts. When airplanes land in St.Petersburg's Pulkovo airport, seismographs register slight quakes measured 2.0 on the Richter scale. Human beings do not sense the ground vibrations. Viktor Bokov says that a strong earthquake will rock the city by 2024. "It will not be a 9.0 quake on the Richter Scale, but a 6-7 magnitude is rather possible. A 6.0-magnitude quake can be compared to an explosion of a hundred of A-bombs," the scientist warned. Seismologists often deal with versions, which say that earthquakes may have an artificial origin sometimes as well. It is particularly said that they occur as a result of tectonic weapon tests, supposedly conducted by Russia and the USA. And this is where the sleight of hand occurs... "Weapon tests can cause an earthquake indeed, but they take place on a very small territory. Such local earthquakes cannot shake the ground thousands of kilometers around," the scientist explained. "When a powerful earthquake rocked Georgia, they said that it occurred over the use of the tectonic weapon. I even had several consultations with Georgian specialists - they wanted to know if the earthquake had been predicted. A similar situation occurred in Iraq - it was said that the US forces used a secret weapon in the country. I carefully studied the results of the seismological analysis, and I can assure you that it was an absolutely natural earthquake," Viktor Bokov said. So now the Russians are talking about the Tectonic Weapon. I suspect this whole thing got started when someone read about seismometers being used to monitor nuclear tests and became confused. |
| Posted by:Phil Fraering |
| #8 Earthquake weather is closely related to eclipse seasons. |
| Posted by: R Foxx 2005-03-02 2:39:30 PM |
| #7 Cool website, Sobiesky. For a minute there, as I scrolled down, I thought I was going to see the order form for the Time Machine as seen in "Napoleon Dynamite." |
| Posted by: nada 2005-03-02 1:11:55 PM |
| #6 The information about the forthcoming disaster in Southeast Asia, which killed 215,000 people, appeared on the website of the Arctic and Antarctic Institute (on which Bokov’s forecasts are regularly published) two days before the tsunami hit the Asian shores. Fat lot of good that did. |
| Posted by: eLarson 2005-03-02 11:08:43 AM |
| #5 Californian |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-03-02 9:58:22 AM |
| #4 Viktor Bokov’s method is based on observations of daily weather changes. Each part of the globe is characterized with its certain peculiarities that may cause an earthquake I actually find this interesting. Californians often refer to "earthquake weather". As a born/bred Califonian (no longer living there) - I assure you - we all know exactly what that means. |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-03-02 9:55:13 AM |
| #3 My old friend, Tesla. Yeeesssssss... He invented radio, you know. |
| Posted by: Chuck Simmins 2005-03-02 9:47:40 AM |
| #2 The vast seething ocean of energy of the vacuum, the longitudinal scalar EM waves of the time domain, can now be tapped and "transduced" into ordinary (transverse) EM energy in our 3-Space world. LOL! Good stuff Sobiesky, that sites a keeper. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-03-02 6:38:09 AM |
| #1 Phil, I think they have scalar weapons on mind. |
| Posted by: Sobiesky 2005-03-02 12:44:09 AM |