The recent 2011 Christchurch Earthquake and Japan Earthquake‘s have created a lot of interest in earthquake prediction around the world. These stories have been some of our most popular blogs with much discussion and people putting forward various prediction techniques they have found on the net, and also sharing their personal intuition and feelings about what is happening on our planet.
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California is prone to earthquakes and many of our readers come from this densely populated state. The nuclear emergency in Japan has implications for California as there are two nuclear power stations operating in the state. The Diablo Canyon Power Plant is in a danger zone. “the Hosgri fault, had been discovered several miles offshore. This fault had a 7.1 magnitude quake 10 miles offshore on November 4, 1927″ [1]. The San Onofre Nuclear plant is further south, both are located directly on the coast. Given what we have seen in Japan, is that smart or dumb?
California Earthquake Prediction
I’ve put a dozen charts in my file from major earthquakes in California over the last 150 years. One thing I noticed is that on most occasions, there was an eclipse visible in California beforehand, mostly lunar eclipses. The map on the left is for the lunar eclipse before the 1906 earthquake. Another common link was conjunctions, squares and oppositions involving the outer planets. I compared the major quakes to the mundane horoscope of America, California, and San Francisco but didn’t find anything startling.
I did find a strong correlation between two of the strongest and deadliest earthquakes in California, and the degrees of the zodiac that were in common are going to be heavily triggered in late 2012 and into 2013. The two earthquakes were the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, magnitude 7.8 which killed over 3000 people. The other one was in the same region, the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, magnitude 6.9 which killed 63 people.
The charts for these earthquakes only show the major aspects of interest to keep it simple. The 1908 San Francisco earthquake had Uranus opposite Neptune. The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake had Saturn and Neptune opposite Jupiter, on the same Cancer/Capricorn axis, same degrees even.
There are two reasons I believe that these previous major earthquakes are important for predicting future earthquakes in the area. The first reason is because of eclipses. The lunar eclipse a couple of months before the 1906 earthquake was totally visible in California as you can see in the picture above. The lunar eclipse a couple of months before the 1989 earthquake was also visible, though it was not as close. Looking ahead, in May 2012, a solar eclipse spans the Pacific Ring of Fire. It starts in Japan and ends in Texas, passing just to the north of San Francisco.
The solar eclipse in May 2012 coincides with the beggining of some major planetary alignments aspecting both the 1906 and 1989 earthquake charts. The most important of these is from Uranus square Pluto, with Pluto around 9 Cancer. Another big influence comes from the December 2012 Jupiter Yod. At 8 Gemini, Jupiter will be conjunct Jupiter in the 1906 earthquake chart (just 21′ when counting for precession).
California Earthquake Prediction Dates
Looking at the transits to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the high risk periods would be:
July 2011, Solar Eclipse opposite Uranus, conjunct Neptune. South Node conjunct Pluto.
March 2012, Pluto square Mercury, Pluto opposite Neptune, Neptune conjunct Moon, Saturn opposite Sun, and South Node conjunct Jupiter.
May 2012, the Solar eclipse passing over northern California, Pluto square Mercury, Pluto opposite Neptune, Jupiter conjunct Mars.
December 2012 to January 2013, Pluto square Mercury, Pluto conjunct Uranus, Pluto opposite Neptune, Neptune conjunct Moon, South Node conjunct Mars, Jupiter Yod conjunct Jupiter.
April 2013, Uranus conjunct Mercury, Uranus square Uranus, Uranus square Neptune.
August 2013, Pluto square Mercury, Pluto opposite Neptune, Jupiter square Mercury, Jupiter opposite Uranus, Jupiter conjunct Neptune.
October – November 2013, Pluto square Mercury, Pluto conjunct Uranus, Pluto opposite Neptune, Uranus conjunct Mercury, Uranus square Uranus, Uranus square Neptune, Saturn opposite Venus.
The two highest risk periods look like August 2013 with the Jupiter Pluto opposition hitting the Cancer-Capricorn axis, and then October November 2013 with the Uranus Pluto square hitting that axis.
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_Canyon_Power_Plant#Safety
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Jamie…there is an increase of earthquakes over “3″ happening…just today:
11 August
Babuyan Islands, Philippines 5.4
Ascension Island 4.8
Near Coast Honshu, Japan 4.7
Sout of Fiji Islands 5.1
10 August
Ascension Island 5.7
Potosi, Bolivia 4.8
And on the internet somebody had compiled a list of how many earthquakes of “3″ or over California had had in the past week. Barb
Revised list of earthquakes for today, 11.8.2011…and the day has not yet ended:
Babuyan Island, Philippines 5.4
Ascension Island 4.8
Near East Coast Honshu, Japan 4.7
South of Fiji Islands 5.1
Northern Sumatra, Indonesia 4.4
Japan 4.7 (duplicate of above?)
Ascension Island 5.2
Southern Xinjiang, China 5.2
Now…I got this from http://www.world-eartquakes.com….says it is powered from USGS…but this is not on the USGS website, which I think is a government website…Barb PS Is this building up?…to the full moon 13 August???
Said the china earthquake had just happened.
Add to the list for August 11th:
Off coast of Guerreo, Mexico 4.2
Barb
Hi Barb – there have been mag 6 EQs somewhere in the world everyday (virtually) for a month now, a definite uptick – this site is good :
http://www.iris.edu/seismon/
Ta Rob…just checked the http://www.earthquakes.com site…10 earthquakes for 11 August now listed mag 4/5…maybe more will become listed for 11 August due to time difference (it’s 8am Friday 12th August in Melbourne)…
Can’t believe how many are happening…3 in Indonesia…will keep watching…Barb
Rob…in the past hour another earthquake added for 11th August!!…a “5″ for Northern Iran…
Are all these 4/5′s normal for one day?
Barb
Sorry for going on & on…just got a really, really nervous feeling about the full moon 13th August…and possibly dates 14/15th August…thought the riots might increase, but that seems to be okay now…so when I saw the 4/5 mag earthquakes for 11th August thinking it might be another big earthquake coming up…just trying to sort out this nervous feeling am getting…might be Japan…they got 3 on 11 August…dunno…Barb
Rob…there were actually 20 earthquakes of 4/5 mag on 11th August…I should have gone to bottom of website page and clicked on “past day”.
East Coast of Honshu, Japan got 3: “5″ “5.9″ “5.2″
Barb
Hi there, I can see people are panicking about earthquakes and the full moon (we have a man here called the Moon Man, who likes to scare people with his predictions of the next quake. In fact there is no proof attached to the theory). Having survived two major quakes in Christchurch (and literally thousands of aftershocks) I would advise people that it’s best to be prepared – you need your kits and plenty of water and dried food. I became fixated on the earthquake websites BEFORE my first quake and and my worst fear was eventually realised. The fact is, earthquakes happen all the time. You can play to those fears but realise there is nothing you can do except prepare yourself. At the end of the day, you can survive them, it’s just the ground moving and there are worse things that can happen.
Hi Jacqui, thanks for the advice…I had already stocked up on bottled water / tinned food…and that’s because I saw people on tv in NZ queing for about 3 hours for water and I thought I can’t even stand queing for 10 minutes at Coles!!!..how would I be for 3 HOURS???
My ‘problem” was I didn’t know if all these earthquakes happening on 11th August was ‘normal” or not…hadn’t looked at those sites before…plus awful anxiety going thru me…anyway, now know, with all the blogging I came across today that it wasn’t “normal” activity on 11th August…..but at least gone back to “normal”.. Regards Barb
Just found this on internet:
“Despite the USGS stripping quakes from their database & dumbing down the magnitude, the sheer number of earthquakes has increased dramatically”
Nancy Lieder, 11th August, under heading “Earth changes & the Pole Shift”
Wonder why the earthquake figures are being played around with.
Barb
Yellowstone. It has had swarms of quakes. Can you imagine the panic if people knew it was getting excited…
We had enough trouble with emotions out of control in the UK this week… It would only need one nutter to start preaching the end of the world is NOW and the lowest common denominator would be out there stripping the malls and going mad.
Spiritually,
Perhaps better to go out NOT in an ape like frenzy…
Maybe?
They aren’t. The idiots who are screeching about coverups are missing a vital factor. The depth of the quake. mostly earthquakes don’t do much damage under mag 6.00 but the depth is crucial. 7.5 is big but if its 350 km below ground level it won’t have very much effect at all.
There are 6 and upwards eqs regularly around the Pacific ring of fire which go unremarked on.
Why on earth would anyone want to cover up an earthquake? If a humanitarian situation arises, as in Haiti, we all have to know about it. And we generally do.
If Libya had had an earthquake of 8.4 a few metres below ground we would all have known about it. It’s pretty hard to hide.
Or was the Asian tsunami in 2004 staged? It’s ridiculous to say there is a cover up. It serves nothing.
There is also another common denominator: Look at the dates… they all seem to be 11′s and 22′s.
I am a veteran of several major earthquakes. I can vouch that I too am always looking toward the “depth” of the quake as a means of gauging severity.
By the way… just curious, where is it already the 28th? I’m in California. Is this a UK website?
I’m in Australia (noon on the 28th), and Marina is in London. I think this blog is set for Universal Time which would be 1am in London.
Always check the depth of the quake, which you can do on iris seismic monitor if you search the recent quakes section. Mag 6 and thereabouts is common in the Pacific ring. 6.4 has potential for damage bit not if it is very deep.
It’s worth looking at the eclse paths to see where the zenith of the eclipse is.
The zenith of the eclipse in Turkey in 1999 was virtually over the area of the quake, which was a high risk area.
Hi Uberqueenofwands…just been on internet and bloggers going on about all the quakes that hit on 11th August, so I wasn’t the only one noticing it…and the bloggers mentioned that USGS have been not honest about the figures for the past week (US dept)..bloggers mentioned the Northern California quake figures were dumbed down for a week …& that the 5.8 quake that hit China on 11th August damaged 100′s homes and injured 31 people.
Least it is quiet now…and nothing “big” has happened on the full moon…I can get out from under the bed!!! Barb
Hi Uberqueenofwands…why is the depth important?
Figi Island region had:
11/8 511.40 depth
12/8 243.00 depth
14/8 491.60 depth
14/8 587.90 depth
14/8 553.00 depth
Any info much appreciated…Regards Barb
Because life is on the surface.
Just found more blogging that USGS are misleading the public on earthquake figures / averages over the years…been doing it a while ..one person claims it is because they are trying to hide the connection between oil drilling and earthquakes..something is being covered up..Barb
There is no cover up. What do you think caused all the EQs before the conspiracy theory?
No oil drilling is going to trigger an event such as the Japanese tsunami and EQ. It was brought on by the huge solar flare a few days before http://pesn.com/2011/03/12/9501786_Japans_Record_Quake_Corresponds_to_Sun_Flare/
We just had a big flare and were in direct line. A massive X2 shot out yesterday but we are not in direct line. However, the storm is around us so expect EQ activity to increase over the next week.