Have Your Quake and Predict It, Too

Early on St. Patrick’s Day Morning, as The Atlantic reported, “Los Angeles suffered the strongest earthquake it had seen in 20 years.” The 4.4-magnitude earthquake shook people out of their beds but did very little damage.

Just minutes after the quake a YouTube video went viral showing the morning newscasters at KTLA stop their newscast to duck under the news desk as the ground began shaking.

The difference between this quake and the one that hit back in 1994 was there was no damage and, believe it or not, a warning was sent out just seconds before the quake hit.

Seismologists are calling this progress, and early warning systems have been installed in places like Japan since 2007. Places like California are still awaiting funding for these sensors that can get an early warning out about various earthquakes.

While Californians are used to quakes and have been waiting for the big one for some time, other places are still getting used to being active seismic hot spots.

TulsaWorld.com is reporting: “The U.S. Geological Survey reported three earthquakes in Oklahoma so far today [March 20, 2014].

At about 12:08 a.m., a 2.6 magnitude was recorded 21 miles south-southeast of Medford. Minutes later, a 3.1 magnitude was recorded in almost the same location.

At about 9:39 a.m., a 3.2 magnitude earthquakes was recorded about 2 miles south of Langston.

Then, at about 11:46 a.m., another 2.6 magnitude recorded about 3 miles south-southwest of Langston.

During the past seven days, Oklahoma recorded 29 earthquakes, including a 3.4 magnitude on Wednesday near Perkins, according to the USGS. During that same timeframe, Kansas recorded two earthquakes, while New Mexico, Missouri and Arkansas recorded one each.”

We all know that earthquakes are common; however, what is most peculiar is that there were increased levels of earthquake activity in the week dating March14th through the 20th compared to the previous seven days. According to the USGS, there were a recorded 1,543 recorded quakes that registered 4.0 or higher.

As DecodedScience.com reports: “Variation in the number of earthquakes is anything but unusual and at the larger end of the magnitude scale much of this week’s additional activity is accounted for by aftershocks associated with the week’s largest tremor, an M6.7 just off the coast of northern Chile.”

After that quake, the pattern remained constant around the Pacific Ocean and there were 50 of them in the western Pacific and Indonesia that registered 4.0 or greater.

The psychological impacts of earthquakes are fairly well-documented. People may not remember what they felt before or what they feel after a tremor, however it is becoming more of a statistical fact that most people do not even know that they sense an earthquake before it happens.

Many people experience lack of balance, headaches and even nausea before an earthquake. Many people who are sensitive to changes in the earth’s magnetic field get a sense of electric flutter. The flutter is believed to affect the Vagus nerve; this nerve has also been called the tenth cranial nerve, cranial nerve X.

As WiseGeek.com says: “The vagus nerve helps to regulate the heart beat, control muscle movement, keep a person breathing, and to transmit a variety of chemicals through the body. It is also responsible for keeping the digestive tract in working order, contracting the muscles of the stomach and intestines to help process food, and sending back information about what is being digested and what the body is getting out of it.”

If this wandering nerve is somehow disturbed or stimulated in the wrong way, the response can be deadly, heart rate can slow down or become erratic, breathing can slow down and some people can faint as a result or lapse into a coma. Some people feel like they are about to have a seizure.

Again, WiseGeek.com says: “Most of the time, you don’t notice the actions of the right and left vagus nerves, but you probably would notice if this nerve ceased to function as a result of disease or trauma, because the vagus nerve is one of the many vital nerves which keeps your body in working order. Without the functions of the vagus nerve, you would find it difficult to speak, breathe, or eat, and your heartbeat would become extremely irregular.”

These symptoms can also be present during magnetic changes brought on by sun storms and even close passes from meteors or asteroids.

During sun storms and geomagnetic activity, there is an increase in epileptic seizures and manic episodes in people with bi-polar disorder.

There have been scientific papers and peer-reviewed studies that are now indicating that, while animals seem to sense an impending quake and tsunami, human beings also are very aware of changes in the earth’s magnetic field and while much of what we experience is written off as common ailments there seems to be an increase in human discomfort and awkward behaviors during or before earthquakes, solar storms and meteor showers.

The magnetic effects of the sun and earth can affect pulse, blood pressure and attitude. The earth responds in kind magnetically to abrupt changes in the sun and human beings also are affected by EMF changes prior to a major earthquake. Prior to earth changes, people that are sensitive to events get migraine headaches, stiff neck muscles, nausea and acid reflux.

Some people find themselves bumping into furniture, dropping things like keys. There also seems to be a craving for foods containing corn like popcorn, corn chips or cheese puffs right before or after an earthquake hits.

Others may crave chocolate because of a need for magnesium in the body.

Prior to the 2004 Malaysian/Indonesian sub-oceanic earthquake (2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami) that triggered one of the worst tsunamis ever recorded, signs were noticed up to two weeks in advance. While no one paid no mind at the time, it was later recorded by fishermen and others that certain fish were migrating into regions that they did not inhabit earlier.

This was peculiar. Many of these fishermen tried to warn people on land of the peculiar behavior but no one would listen. Days before the disaster, birds got restless. So did cats, dogs and elephants. May animals disappeared and elephants in particular were seen running to the hills. People though, went about their business as normal.

Then the disaster came and everyone noticed that the animals and birds were missing.

Today when I arrived at work, I was alerted to a very peculiar video that was shot near Yellowstone’s Mammoth Hot Springs and showed a herd of bison running down a paved road in the area known as the Yellowstone Caldera. A caldera is “a cauldron-like volcanic feature usually formed by the collapse of land following a volcanic eruption.”

While bison running free through Yellowstone is not something to be frightened of, there have been a few independent reports that the area has been plagued with helium gas releases and tremors and that the animals have been fleeing the areas in fear that the volcano may erupt.

This supervolcano was made famous in the movie ’2012′ and would be deadly if it erupts. This supervolcano is bubbling and pushing up earth every year. If it decides to blow it would wipe out everything with a 500 mile radius. It would send parts of the planet into a prolonged nuclear winter and would definitely push us closer to doomsday.

Japan has had its share of major earthquakes. Of course, the earthquake and tsunami that hit on March 11, 2011 has made us all aware of the dangers of nuclear power plants and the vulnerability of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. However, the many earthquakes that have happened there have now been revelatory with regard to how magnetic changes and surges affect human health.

As the Wall Street Journal reported in April 2011: “The frequency and force of the shaking has led to an epidemic of what’s known in Japanese as jishin-yoi, which literally means “earthquake drunk” in English. What it refers to is a medical condition in which people feel a sense of motion as if in an earthquake — even if there isn’t one.”

This can happen before a quake or days after a quake. Experts are weighing on this “earthquake sensitivity” and are narrowing it down to a possible condition that starts in the inner ear.

Doctors are saying that before and after a major earthquake there may be a neurological “mismatch” between the balance mechanism in the vestibular system of the inner ear and sensory signals from nerves in the eyes and feet.

This can trigger various symptoms of nausea, dizziness, and headaches that feel similar to migraine. In severe cases people experience clumsiness, falling and vomiting.

These types of symptoms are similar to the ones described by Charlotte King. Charlotte King actually is earthquake sensitive and can feel when a major earthquake is about to occur anywhere on the planet. She claims that before a major earthquake, people do sense that it will occur but they just don’t pay attention. Many common things like migraine, aches and pains, and even vertigo can be triggered by electromagnetic disturbances on the earth.

Charlotte also was able to hear what she claims was foghorn sounds or moaning sounds from the earth prior to an earthquake or volcanic eruption. These sounds are much like the sounds that people have been recording around the world that sound like ship horns or angel trumpets.

Most people pay no mind to certain symptoms that they feel are normal disruptions of life. Every symptom can be eliminated by a pill or rest. People normally pay no mind to the possibility that their body is telling them that there are changes happening within the earth or with the sun.

Perhaps the swarm of quakes that have been happening will make people aware of how they feel before and after seismic events. That way they can have their quake and predict it, too.