From: rwd4f@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Rob Dobson)
Subject: Long but bizarre--read if you have time and like psuedo-scientific rants
Keywords: ELF Monitoring, Earthquake Forecasting, Magnetic Fluctuations
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 12:37:57 GMT

>Send e-mail if you need this article in one piece or are missing any
>of its parts to: "lockhart@uci.edu".
>
>DISCLAIMER -- This article is NOT sanctioned or approved by any agency
>or scientific body, it is being distributed simply as a public test of
>one individuals predictive methods and/or theory.  This submission
>soley represents the opinion of the author David K. Youmans.
>
>
>                "THE TRUE CAUSE AND ORIGIN OF EARTHQUAKES"
>
>                         AND THEIR PREDICTION)
>
>
>                         BY: DAVID K. YOUMANS
>                        SEISMIC RESEARCH ASSN.
>                             P.O. BOX #163
>                        NEWPORT, INDIANA 47966
>
>                                             BY: DAVID K. YOUMANS
>
>                                                 (MARCH 1990)
>
>Part 1/3
>
>     The subject of earthquakes is as old as the Earth itself, and is
>nothing new to any of us.  They have always assumed a mystical
>position, both in history and in terms of scientific understanding,
>where they are still considered an inscrutable part of the Earth's
>behavior.  Despite all the theory advanced by seismologists today
>pertaining to plate tectonics, etc., scientists are still without any
>consistent or logical means of predicting them.  While these
>scientists proficiently claim they "understand" the physics of the
>Earth, the subject of earthquakes and their predictions cast more than
>a reasonable doubt on such claims.  It is highly unlikely that anyone
>understands anything until a predictable base of knowledge is
>established to bring about results that are consistent with the
>phenomenon in the REAL WORLD.  Theory can never pass into the realm of
>actual KNOWLEDGE until it passes such test, and very little, if any,
>deductive application can be drawn from it until one can use such
>theory or "assumptions" to validate physical facts already in
>existence and to distill ACTUAL and PREDICTABLE RESULTS out of them.
>
>     Seismologists claim that earthquakes are the by-product of so-
>called "crustal plates" or divisions of the Earth's crust which are
>continuously jostled about and collide with each other and create
>frictional "pressures" in the process.  As the story goes, these
>pressures accumulate so-called "stain" and eventually cause the rocks
>to fracture, resulting in an "earthquake."  These plates are
>supposedly moved about by theoretically-conceived "convection-like
>currents" similar to the agitator action inside an automatic clothes
>washer.  According to this THEORY, the Earth isn't actually much
>different than your Maytag, a prospect which is highly unlikely.  If
>you want the REAL TRUTH, the seismologists haven't a clue as to what
>causes an earthquake, and have even less knowledge about how to
>predict them, both of which are entirely consistent with the facts.
>
>     Earthquakes, instead, are caused by an interaction of forces
>inside the Earth which are electromagnetic in origin and are
>controlled by the Sun and the Moon.  Earthquakes basically have little
>or nothing to do with the rocks themselves, other than the fact the
>rocks get in the way, or impede the natural flow or pathway of the
>electromagnetic waves which are generated by this process.  When these
>high-velocity electromagnetic waves or energy collides with the rocks
>in the Earth's crust, in a lazer-like action, it causes the ground to
>undulate or vibrate against this powerful thrust, as though a large
>stone were hurled against it from underneath its surface.  Near the
>actual epicenter of an earthquake the ground motion is perceived as
>vertical (up and down) movements, while the farther away one travels
>from the epicentral focus point, the more lateral or horizontal the
>ground-motion becomes, which causes the typical swaying motion to
>occur.  The ground is acting like water in a pond, where a stone has
>been thrown, to dampen or absorb the energy or force being thrust
>against it.
>
>     A massive amount of misunderstanding exists surrounding the
>subject of earthquakes, and most of this confusion has been created
>out of the misguided logic and theory of present-day scientists and
>investigators.  Assuming that earthquakes are the result of previously
>existing geological formations, the geologist and seismologist
>erroneously conclude the entire phenomenon is a RANDOM one and
>incapable of being understood except through statistical analysis, a
>technique which may be useful to the insurance industry and the
>advertising business, but of no value in the study of earthquakes,
>which must depend upon a more solid connection to cause-effect in the
>real world.  By erroneously conceding earthquakes to be a byproduct of
>rock formations, the seismologists not only error in their
>interpretation of what is actually taking place, but they also exclude
>themselves from the possibility of investigating the phenomenon from a
>more accurate and all-inclusive perspective.
>
>     For a wider field of view with respect to the seismic phenomenon,
>we have to start from some very basic considerations.  First of all,
>we have to view the earthquakes as a generalized condition on the
>Earth, since they occur in a wide variety of geological and geographic
>settings, and have no specific restriction as to what time of day or
>year they occur.  While there seems to be a greater frequency in some
>parts of the world than others, evidence pretty well concludes they
>have occurred in many diversified regions of the world at one time or
>another.  Secondly, we should consider that a force of some kind, in
>this case an earthquake, is responsible for the observable fissures in
>the ground we term "fault-lines," and not the reverse.  To conclude an
>earthquake to be only a function of inert rocks slipping and sliding
>around at random admits of no real possibility to investigate the
>phenomenon according to the known laws of physics which have been
>established over time to evaluate such events mathematically vis a vis
>time-spatial analysis.
>
>     Seismologists are so busy digging into the ground in search of
>gremlins that they fail to remember their seismographic records so
>diligently collected contain the most valuable information of all,
>that which can be used to cast an earthquake in its proper role, as an
>"actor" in the cause-effect world of time and space, whereby it can be
>understood fundamental component or variant of motion principles.  But
>who would ever "dream" the world could be so logical?  Basically,
>there is nothing supernatural about anything.  We either understand
>something, or we have "yet" to discover the answer to the question.
>As we build ourselves progressively higher plateaus of knowledge, we
>can reach to the next one and so forth, but we cannot, as in the case
>of earthquakes, omit essential cause-effect sequences of reality, and
>hope to achieve such new plateaus.  When we INVENT logic to explain
>circumstance, we may escape the consequences in a human court of law,
>but in the case of NATURE....we either UNDERSTAND IT FULLY, or we
>don't graduate from ignorance.
>
>     The seismograph is a simple instrument, refined by modern and
>technical advancements to RECORD ground motion of earthquakes AFTER
>they have already occurred.  They are incapable of predicting anything
>and were not designed for such function.  They are meant to record the
>time, location, and the magnitude of earthquakes, as best as possible.
>Many seismograph networks now exist around the world, and through
>cooperative efforts, seismologists work diligently to collect useful
>data about when and where they occur.  This information is then
>recorded in permanent records, to be evaluated by researchers and
>historians as well as for use by government officials and media
>personnel.  The seismographic records compute both the exact time of
>the earthquakes and their position in latitude and longitude of Earth
>surface, or geographic position.  Since it contains both the exact
>time and place of the event, the seismographic recording is the
>beginning raw material for any future scientific investigation, that
>is, if one is to conclude earthquakes as a true function of time and
>space, and not just movement of rocks.
>
>     The movement of the Earth around the Sun forms the basis of time,
>as we know it, here on the Earth, and is responsible for the seasons.
>The influence of both the Sun and the Moon with respect to events and
>phenomena of the Earth are almost too infinite to elaborate on,
>operating notably to create the tides, the magnetic field of the
>Earth, and effecting a wide assortment of other things.  To reason or
>assume that earthquakes are created or influenced by positions of the
>Sun and the Moon is not a difficult thing for most people to grasp, as
>these parent celestial bodies play so many important and diverse roles
>with respect to indigenous phenomena of the Earth.  While some studies
>performed by scientists show no visible connection between positions
>of Sun-Moon phases and earthquake activity, the studies themselves are
>faulty, and too superficial to admit of results.  Additionally, these
>studies were only intent on trying to establish the influence of the
>Sun and Moon as a secondary factor or "tidal force" thought to be
>related to such notions of "stress" along fault-lines.
>
>     These two side-by-side misconceptions only serve to lead to
>further logical error and dead-end analysis. Such notion as "stress"
>is only theoretical and is, in reality, non-existent, and is based
>upon unsubstantiated reasoning.  Compounding the error, is the
>ill-conceived notion that the Sun and Moon are ONLY influences on such
>fictitious conditions.  In reality, as I have been able to concretely
>establish and document, the Sun and Moon are MORE than just an
>INFLUENCE.  THEY GOVERN THE ENTIRE PROCESS and ACTIVATE IT ALL.
>
>                            (to be continued)
>
>


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Rob Dobson              University of Virginia Music Library
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