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"In the New Testament, we find Jesus on the Mount of Olives, foretelling a time when there would be many wars, famines, pestilence, and earthquakes. Such events would be the sign that this age was coming to a close. Of course, it is impossible to say whether he was referring to events two thousand years ahead or to some other time, but his descriptions are certainly relevant. The actual frequency of earthquakes may not have increased in recent times, but their impact on densely populated urban areas is much greater." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"He said he could forecast earthquakes and once claimed to have predicted six of the past seven major world quakes. He was quoted by Time magazine as saying, "I don't think that I will ever make a serious mistake in the stock market for the rest of my life," and he predicted that he would win the Nobel Prize in economics.9 The first Granville episode took place on Tuesday, April 22,1980. With the news that he had changed his recommendation from short to long, the Dow rose 30.72 points, or 4.05%. This was the biggest increase in the Dow since November 1,1978, a year and a half earlier." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"The pH scale for acid-alkaline is similar to the Richter scale for measuring the intensity of earthquakes; they are both measures of exponential change. Each one-point change in the scale results in a tenfold change in strength. For example, a reading of pH 6.0 indicates an effective acid strength of ten (10), while an acid at pH 5.0 would be ten times as strong again, with a strength of one hundred (10 X 10). A pH of 4.0 compared to a pH of 7.0 would have a strength of one thousand (10 X 10 X 10)." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"The actual frequency of earthquakes may not have increased in recent times, but their impact on densely populated urban areas is much greater. So too is the impact of war: napalm, land mines, anthrax, and nuclear weapons inflict far more damage on communities and on the environment than did bows and arrows and spears. Famines hit with increasing severity, exacerbated by the population explosion and the depletion of the soil. And the possibility of new pestilences strikes fear deep into the hearts of individuals and insurance companies alike." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.) "There may be unforeseen flips in the weather, unexpected changes in ecosystems, surprising responses by other species, or unpredicted earthquakes in significant locations. All we can say with certainty is that change will come —and more and more rapidly. The winds of change are brewing into a storm of change—perhaps a hurricane of change. How can we cope with such change? For me, trees provide a good lesson. If a tree is to withstand a storm, it must be flexible, able to bend with the winds. A rigid tree will soon blow down." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"The problem intensified during strong El Nifios, when dune formation could become overwhelming, especially after earthquakes had deposited masses of hillside debris in river valley floors. We know this because the space shuttle Challenger photographed a young beach ridge at the mouth of the Rio Santa region, eighty kilo- meters south of the Moche River, in 1983. NASA scientists digitized seven earlier aerial and satellite photographs of the same beach and were able to show that the new ridge formed between 1970 and 1975 as a result of two natural disasters. A 7." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"When Christmas morning rolled around, the group descended the mountain and bolted their doors, awaiting further instruction. Two earthquakes passed through the valley that week, rattling windows and dishes but causing no harm. Early in the New Year, word spread throughout the Okanagan Valley, and eventually to the news desks in Vancouver, that forty people, including schoolchildren, were holed up in a building waiting for the apocalypse. Journalists staked out the ranch, making much of the fact that the group wore red capes lined with gold satin and white shirts intended to repel atomic rays." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Aztec priests sacrificed human victims to the Sun God by tearing out their still-beating hearts with an obsidian knife, in the belief that such offerings would perpetuate their finite world, destined, according to legend, to end in a swarm of earthquakes. Ancient Egyptian pharaohs were the living personification of the Sun God on earth, shepherds of their people, masters of the life-giving Nile. They and their subjects lived according to ma'at, a spirit of harmony, justice, order, and peace." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Most New York State residents would be shocked to find that their state is near the top of the list for potential annual damage to buildings from earthquakes.14 Fig. 26.Think you're safe from earthquakes if you're not on the West Coast? Although earthquakes in the central and eastern United States are less frequent than in the west, they affect much larger areas.This is shown here with examples of two areas affected by earthquakes of similar magnitude: the 1895 Charleston, Missouri, earthquake and the 1994 Northridge, California, earthquake." - Douglas Mulhall, Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World (Get the book.)

"Electromagnetic and geomagnetic phenomena resulting from the Earth's shifting plates, from earthquakes, or from unusually high rainfall levels—even electromagnetic "luminosities," or lights in the sky?can all stimulate certain portions of the brain that produce hallucinations. Between 1968 and 1971, more than 100,000 people reported observing visions of an apparition of the Virgin Mary above a church in Zeitoun, Egypt. When Persinger examined the seismic activity in the area over the same time period, he discovered an unprecedented peak in earthquake activity." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"These beautiful and varied landscapes can also be subject to nature's immense fury, as earthquakes, mud slides, hurricanes, and tsunamis destroy crops, roads, warehouses, and lives. The economic situation of coffee communities is varied, as well. The price paid to coffee farmers has little to do with the cost of growing and processing the crop. Nor does the price include a reasonable profit for the farmers to maintain or improve their lives. Rather, coffee prices are dictated largely by the forecasts of financial speculators, banks, and multinational corporations in New York and London." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.) "The shock waves reached up into the Bukit Barisan in the form of earthquakes, shattering buildings, water supply systems, roads, andfields. Fortunately, only two members of PPKGO lost their lives, but a deeper tragedy was to unfold. As there were few high schools and no colleges in the mountains of the Gayo region, many farmers sent their kids to Banda Aceh, the capital, for schooling. In the weeks that followed the tsunami, Salim searched desperately for two of his daughters, eventually finding them safe from physical harm." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.)

"When Stanford geophysicist Anthony Fraser-Smith wanted to create a distributed network of sensors that might give advanced warning of earthquakes, he learned quickly that not all interested and enthusiastic individuals could be relied upon as citizen scientists. On the other hand, some volunteers impressed him immensely. In the face of deficient government funding, he found that enlisting amateurs was indispensable in achieving his research goals. This productive and collaborative side to amateur science is only going to grow in the years to come." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"When Vata goes out of balance in nature, it causes earthquakes, droughts, hurricanes, and tornadoes. Disturbed Pitta generates heat waves and great destruction through fires. Irritated Kapha leads to excessive cold, rain and flooding. In the body, an unbalanced Vata dosha causes gas, pressure, pain, dryness, shaking and nervousness. If Pitta dosha is disturbed, the body overheats, acidifies or suffers from inflammatory diseases." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"Most buildings are designed to withstand the sporadic big bangs of winds and rain, earthquakes, and the like. However, most buildings are not designed to resist synchronized sympathetic vibrations that can be achieved through the big bloom. Buildings are top heavy. Furthermore, they are built in pieces. Hence, if gentle sympathetic vibrations are consistently added through positive feedback for weeks and weeks, it's statistically possible that certain buildings could collapse." - Gary E. Schwartz and Linda G. S. Russek, The Living Energy Universe (Get the book.)

"This area was prone to earthquakes. The site of the Simi Valley quake was land in geological motion, no smooth hills, everything angled dramatically, up and down, agitated, glittery, as sharp as glass shards. Jagged outcrops pointed like spears at the sky. This was harsh, terrible land. Not many folks lived there. You had to like sharp things to live there. But, soon, the harsh, jagged peaks disappeared." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"But one day even this Sun is to be annihilated, this time by monstrous earthquakes, and all living things will again perish in the final cataclysm. Given such a powerful myth, the Aztecs were of necessity a nation of pessimists. Regarding their own origins during the epoch of the Fifth Sun, their beliefs belonged to the "born in a log cabin" school: like early United States politicians, and later ones too, the Aztecs liked to boast about their humble beginnings and their subsequent rise to eminence and power through their own mighty efforts." - Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe, The True History of Chocolate (Get the book.)

"But many places also have their predictably recurrent natural disasters: wildfires, Hoods, hurricanes, typhoons, earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions. These catastrophes are every bit as native to the places we live as the birds and trees. To truly know our home places, we have to know not only how they flourish, but also how they break. The extent to which catastrophes disrupt human lives often depends on whether the infrastructure of settlement has taken predictable catastrophes into account, or denied their existence." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"EARTHQUAKE DETECTORS China has always been plagued by earthquakes. The dynastic histories detail numerous earthquakes over the centuries, such as the great disaster of February 2, 1556, in which more than 800,000 people died. Chinese emperors were deeply concerned about major earthquakes, since they frequently sparked social unrest in the form of food riots or even rebellions. To maintain control, the government needed to send both food and troops to the suffering region as quickly as possible. Some form of advance warning would therefore have been of great value." - Peter James, Nick Thorpe, Ancient Inventions (Get the book.)

"Diseases, in the old-fashioned, literal sense of the term, occur naturally—like avalanches or earthquakes; whereas diagnoses are man-made artifacts or constructs—like books or bridges. Which raises the question: Why do we make diagnoses? We have several reasons for doing so: 1. Scientific: to identify the organs or tissues affected and perhaps the cause of the illness. 2. Professional: to enlarge the scope, and thus the power and prestige of a state-protected medical monopoly and the income of its practitioners. 3." - Thomas Szasz, The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays (Get the book.)

"Last but not least, proper planning should also anticipate a range of potential disasters, whether natural, like earthquakes and hurricanes, or human-made. Files should be backed up, using off-site storage if possible, while important documents, account numbers, medical information, insurance photos and inventories, and the like should be kept in secure, readily accessible locations. The period ahead will be a time of profound change and constant turmoil, and survival will depend on staying informed, being prepared, and planning accordingly." - Michael J. Panzner, Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes (Get the book.)

"Think you're safe from earthquakes if you're not on the West Coast? Although earthquakes in the central and eastern United States are less frequent than in the west, they affect much larger areas.This is shown here with examples of two areas affected by earthquakes of similar magnitude: the 1895 Charleston, Missouri, earthquake and the 1994 Northridge, California, earthquake. Inner zone indicates minor to major damage to buildings and their contents. Outer zone indicates shaking felt, but little or no damage." - Douglas Mulhall, Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World (Get the book.)

"The speed of glacial advance right around the edges of the ice sheet is even observable through an increase in glacial earthquakes, seismic shocks that propagate through the Earth as the glaciers slip and slide towards the sea. The number of these 'glacialquakes' has doubled in the last five years, and the majority of them strike in the summer, when warm meltwater penetrates to the ice sheet's bed. The rapid response to warming shows that large ice sheets like Greenland are less inert than previously assumed." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"Your genetic traits make you more or less predisposed to health-related windstorms, snowstorms, earthquakes, and hurricanes. But just as you can modify cities to adjust to natural geography and natural occurrences, you can also protect yourself from abnormalities in your genes if you're unhappy with how you've been genetically programmed. When it comes to your body, here's what we know, primarily through studies of identical twins: Your longevity is based one-quarter on your genetics and three-quarters on your behaviors and lifestyle choices." - Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D., You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty (Get the book.)

"El Nino, which caused them to move their capital far upstream to maximize floodwaters and crop yields. There they minimized water loss in drought years. But they could not withstand a later El Nino or series of ENSO events. A combination of rigid governance, drought, social stress, and El Ninos toppled centuries of prosperous rule. The same pattern of rapid rise, efflorescence, and sudden collapse epitomized many other preindustrial civilizations, among them the Classic Maya, whose lords were as exploitative and myopic as the Moche warrior-priests." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"The flooding, earthquakes, and hurricanes that ravage Central America annually moved the land mines around the countryside, presenting new dangers every season to the farmers in the fields and the children on the roads to school. The vegetation and erratic movement have made the job of finding the mines for removal nearly impossible. The mines in Nicaragua came from the United States, Russia, China, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, and another dozen countries, off-loaded in foreign aid programs or purchased on the open market." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.)

"Geologically, the planet has become less restless and destructive. earthquakes are mild and limited in scope. Volcanoes may explode, but they are infrequent and provide plenty of warning, allowing residents to re-locate. Geologic pressure is released, but more naturally, over long lengths of time and less violently. Thus, tsunamis are also practically unknown. Natural resources and natural treasures are abundant, loved, protected and enjoyed without exploitation. Man and nature are blending seamlessly into one loving consciousness. Revel in those emotions of being in this healed world." - Jackie Lapin, The Art of Conscious Creation: How You Can Transform the World (Get the book.)

"Earthquakes are particularly likely where such plates are sliding past each other, as in the San Andreas Fault, fa earthquakes cannot be accurately predicted, although the likelihood of a region's suffering an earthquake can be estimated. erosion A type of weathering in which surface soil and rock are worn away through the action of glaciers, water, and wind. estuary A wide body of water formed where a large river meets the sea. It contains both fresh and salt water. eye of a hurricane The region at the center of a hurricane about which the winds rotate, but which is itself relatively calm." - E. D. Hirsch, The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy (Get the book.)

"The Soviet Union and the United States have at least fourteen 100-megawatt ELF transmitters bombarding othercountries with invisible waves' warfare, that can cause planetary weather changes, earthquakes, and can bounce frequencies off other planets back into the Sun, with possible devastation. Garlic irradiated with low-level Microwaves caused abnormal chromosomes in the young shoots. It has been reported that the Brain is responsive and changes Brain waves (neural electrical resonance) from radio waves and microwaves a billionth of a microwatt." - Joseph E. Mario, Anti-Aging Manual: The Encyclopedia of Natural Health (Get the book.)

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