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Earthquakes:  It is a given truth that the effects of earthquakes on human society can often be catastrophic.  Future earthquakes could cause devastation and loss of life on a grand scale. Numerous efforts in recent history to localize the time and place of future events have produced results ranging from unsuccessful to mildly successful. Owing to the fact that earthquakes are mechanical events, most efforts to predetermine the location and time of future earthquakes have used information from the mechanical domain.

 

In recent years, scientists at Stanford, Lawrence Livermore Labs and a number of other US and international institutions have been investigating certain empirical connections between radio waves and earthquakes. Most of these efforts have been met with extreme skepticism from leading experts in the field of tectonic geology. Much of this skepticism is due at least in part to the limited understanding of radio physics by geologists and in turn the skepticism of many radio physicists who have limited understanding in such areas as plate tectonics.

 

And as it turns out, neither the geologists nor the radio physicists were equipped to solve this problem together or separately. What was missing was a fundamental understanding that would allow for a new predictive technology to be born. Several years ago a member of our working group discovered what may be the key to solving the riddle of earthquake prediction: a new type of radio wave. While normal radio waves are to a certain extent indicators of tectonic events, it is impossible to use these waves as accurate indicators of future earthquakes.

However, we believe this newly discovered type of radio wave does hold the key to significantly improve earthquake prediction. We have built prototypes of equipment designed to monitor these newly discovered waves, and we feel that by coupling this new data set with empirical, dynamic data from the sun and the moon and using our unique energetics model we can correlate our model with traditional seismic data. We have also developed new algorithms to evaluate all existing data sources to produce a global map indicating the probability of an earthquake occurring at a given time or place. Thus far we have obtained promising results in the quest to predetermine the location and time of future earthquakes.

While our current research has shown our methodology to be effective, we feel with a focused effort, we can determine with high probability the time and location of future earthquakes.  

We're citizen scientists, and we would like community support.  While we believe in and value our established scientific institutions, we think citizen scientists working outside the constraints of big corporations and universities often make incredible discoveries.  


We are based in Virginia and felt the August 2011 earthquake; if there had been any better measure of prediction, the Lake Anna nuclear plant could have shut down to be perfectly sure there were no accidents.  And of course, days, hours, even minutes of advance warning would have made an enormous difference in Japan, in Turkey, in New Zealand, in China, in Haiti – all locations of massive damage and death.

Our Earthquake Probability System has enormous humanitarian potential.

Earthquake Probability System