Thursday, May 19, 2011

Japan Quake: File Under - Atmospheric Disturbance As Earthquake Predictor?

Atmosphere Above Japan Heated Rapidly Before M9 Earthquake  Wow..  From Technology Review, via Godlike Productions.    Excerpts:

Geologists have long puzzled over anecdotal reports of strange atmospheric phenomena in the days before big earthquakes. But good data to back up these stories has been hard to come by.

In recent years, however, various teams have set up atmospheric monitoring stations in earthquake zones and a number of satellites are capable of sending back data about the state of the upper atmosphere and the ionosphere during an earthquake.
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Today, Dimitar Ouzounov at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland and a few buddies present the data from the Great Tohoku earthquake which devastated Japan on 11 March. Their results, although preliminary, are eye-opening.

They say that before the M9 earthquake, the total electron content of the ionosphere increased dramatically over the epicentre, reaching a maximum three days before the quake struck.

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It certainly makes sense that the lithosphere, atmosphere and ionosphere are coupled in a way that can be measured when one of them is perturbed. The question is to what extent the new evidence backs up this idea.

Maybe "Earthquake Weather" is a reality?  Maybe also..  Might this be a limited hangout explanation obfuscating the influence of HAARP?  Note that none of these three phenomena preclude the other, and any combination of all three could be the closest to reality.

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