Earthquakes:Natural or Man-Made?
By Jason Jeffrey
Source: New Dawn No. 57
http://www.newdawnmagazine.com.au/Articles/Earthquakes%20Natural%20or%20Man-made.html
But afterwards there
occurred violent earthquakes and floods; and in a single day and night of
misfortune all your warlike men in a body sank into the earth, and the island
of Atlantis in like manner disappeared in the depths of the sea.
- Plato in Timaeus
Two devastating
earth-quakes in the month of September 1999 again focused the world's attention
on one of nature's most terrifying and destructive forces. Earthquakes in
Turkey and Taiwan took the lives of thousands and left even more people
homeless and in fear of returning to their devastated communities.
The death and
devastation caused by major earthquakes around the world can only worsen in
years to come, as growing urban development and unprecedented population growth
compound the lethal effects of natural and, as some researchers claim, man-made
seismic hazards. With the world's population estimated to pass the 6 billion
mark this year, there are fewer unpopulated places for quakes to strike. And
with ever more people to accommodate, there is more multistoried construction
in vulnerable fault zones. As a result, destructive earthquakes "are the
wave of the future," seismic expert Kerry Sieh of the California Institute
of Technology says. "There are 40 cities of a million or more people
within 100 kilometres of a major plate boundary, and all those are good
candidates for a large event."1
What Are
Earthquakes?
Natural earthquakes
are caused by the movement of tectonic plates over the Earth's mantle.
Sandwiched between Earth's crust and molten outer core, the vast mantle accounts
for 83 percent of the planet's volume. It is filled with solid rock but, heated
by the core and by its own radioactive decay, it circulates like a pot of
impenetrable soup. That circulation is the driving force behind the surface
motion of tectonic plates, which builds mountains and causes earthquakes.
The destructive
power of an earthquake comes from the momentum gathered when two opposing
"faults" or tectonic plates, that may have been locked together for
decades, suddenly move apart. The result is that solid rock which normally
moves only with the passing of geological ages accelerates briefly to 5,000mph,
unleashing huge quantities of energy and creating a shaking movement of up to a
metre a second.
Most people consider
earthquakes to be natural in origin, but what if there was such a thing as
man-made earthquakes? Well, there are. There is the official version of what
constitutes a man-made earthquake, and then there is a body of suppressed
research pointing to a more insidious agenda.
Artificially-Induced
Earthquakes
Officially, there is
such an area of research devoted to man-made earthquakes. Geologists and
seismologists agree that humans can induce earthquakes in five major ways:
fluid injection into the Earth, fluid extraction from the Earth, mining or
quarrying, nuclear testing and through the construction of dams and reservoirs.
In fact, there are
officially recorded instances of earthquakes caused by human activity.
Geologists
discovered that disposal of waste fluids by means of injecting them deep into
the earth could trigger earthquakes after a series of earthquakes in the Denver
area occurred from 1962-1965; the periods and amounts of injected waste
coincided with the frequency and magnitude of earthquakes in the Denver area.
The earthquakes were triggered because the liquid, which was injected under
very high pressure, released stored strain energy in the rocks.2
Man-made earthquakes
may seem like something out of the X-Files, and it's probably only a matter of
time before the idea is picked up by Hollywood. This year, best-selling
thriller author Ken Follett released his latest book, Hammer of Eden, about a
terrorist group threatening to level San Francisco with a man-made earthquake.
When asked by Salon Magazine how real is the idea of a man-made earthquake,
Follett replied that "Some of the seismologists told me, 'There's no way
this could happen.' But others gave sad little shrugs and said, 'It's hard to
say. Who knows? Maybe. It's within the realm of possibly.'"
Suppressed Research:
Tesla Technologies
Born in Belgrade,
Yugoslavia, Nicola Tesla is one of this century's greatest scientists. A
prodigious inventor of electronic devices and pioneer of free energy, Tesla
never gained the recognition he deserved because his scientific breakthroughs
were deemed to 'sensitive' by the ruling corporate and government powers of the
day. Thus much of his research was suppressed and stolen.
In a book entitled
Tesla - The Lost Inventions, a section is titled "Man-Made
Earthquake". It discloses Tesla's fascination with the power of resonance
and he experimented with it not only electrically but on the mechanical plane
as well. In his Manhattan, USA lab, Tesla built mechanical vibrators and tested
their powers. One experiment got out of hand.
Tesla attached a
powerful little vibrator driven by compressed air to a steel pillar. Leaving it
there, he went about his business. Meanwhile, down the street, a violent
quaking built up, shaking down plaster, bursting plumbing, cracking windows,
and breaking heavy machinery off its anchorages.
Tesla's vibrator had
found the resonant frequency of a deep sandy layer of subsoil beneath his
building, setting off a small earthquake. Soon Tesla's own building began to
quake. It is reported that just as the police broke into his lab, Tesla was
seen smashing the device with a sledge hammer, the only way he could promptly
stop it.
In a similar
experiment, on an evening walk through the city, Tesla attached a battery
powered vibrator, described as being the size of an alarm clock, to the steel
framework of a building under construction. He adjusted it to a suitable
frequency and set the structure into resonant vibration. The structure shook,
and so did the earth under his feet. Tesla later boasted he could shake down the
Empire State Building with such a device. If this claim was not extravagant
enough, he went on to say a large-scale resonant vibration was capable of
splitting the earth in half.
An article from the
11 July, 1935 issue of the New York American entitled 'Tesla's Controlled
Earthquakes', stated Tesla's "experiments in transmitting mechanical
vibrations through the earth - called by him 'the art of telegeodynamics' -
were roughly described by the scientists as a sort of controlled
earthquake."
The article quotes
Tesla as stating:
The rhythmical
vibrations pass through the earth with almost no loss of energy. It becomes
possible to convey mechanical effects to the greatest terrestrial distances and
produce all kinds of unique effects. The invention could be used with
destructive effect in war.
Mysterious Lights
Several UFO
researchers speculate many UFO sightings might actually be "earthquake
lights" caused by 'piezoelectric' phenomena. Piezoelectricity is believed
to be caused by crystals found in certain rocks giving off a flow of
electricity when subjected to high pressure, as in an earthquake. Lights
leaping away from mountain peaks have been seen and recorded since ancient
times. Reports coming out of Turkey during the recent 17 August earthquake mention
mysterious lights over the west of the country. The following intriguing
eyewitness report was forwarded to Mutual UFO Network Eastern USA from Turkey:
They are incredibly
clear, circular or triangular in shape, white, yellow, red and blue coloured, remain
visible in the sky for 5 to 20 minutes, following a
materialising-dematerialising pattern. The funny thing is it became a routine
thing as they have been showing up two or three times a week. They became an
inevitable component of the TV news and media. Furthermore, just before the
quake, the bottom of the sea in Izmit went red and the sea temperature went up
to 40-45 degrees C. However, there are no underwater volcanos in the Sea of
Marmara! Starting two days before the quake, hundreds of fish, crabs and other
sea life forms died and not naturally! Somehow, they were burned! The fish nets
of the fishermen were burned and we have several rock and stone samples from
the sea, which went black in colour. TUVPO (Turkish UFO and Paranormal
Organisation) is cooperating with the Smithsonian Institute and a few
universities in the US. We already sent them some rock and burned fishnet
samples, upon their request. Folks at TUVPO will hopefully run a spectrum
analysis on the video tapes. Some fishermen are also saying that they witnessed
an explosion under the sea. Fireballs, strange lights, sightings never ended in
Turkey.3
Compare this
information with what happened in the destructive 1977 earthquake that hit
China. The 5 June, 1977 New York Times described the great earthquake which
destroyed Tangshan, China on July 28, 1976, killing over 650,000 people:
Just before the
first tremor at 3:42 am, the sky lit up like daylight. The multi-hued lights,
mainly white and red, were seen up to 200 miles away. Leaves on many trees were
burned to a crisp and growing vegetables were scorched on one side, as if by a
fireball.
Tesla Effect
Some investigators
believe these electrical effects were associated with electromagnetic plasma
and ball lightning and the strange array of flashes that result from
Tesla-style technology. Was this brilliant flash of coloured light what Tesla
talked about in 1935 when he mentioned "all kinds of unique effects"?
Was this earthquake an early test of the system, conducted on the unsuspecting
people of China? It certainly does not appear it was a natural earthquake. Was
the same technology tried out on Turkey?
Andrija Puharich,
MD, LL.D. in January 1978, issued a detailed research paper titled,
"Global Magnetic Warfare - A Layman's View of Certain Artificially Induced
Unusual Effects on the Planet Earth During 1976 and 1977". He was
primarily looking into Soviet experiments with Tesla technology and believed
controlled earthquakes were part and parcel of that work. Of them he wrote: "Of
the many great earthquakes of 1976, there is one that demands special attention
- the July 28, 1976 Tangshan, China eartthquake."
The January 1978
edition of Specula magazine ran an article describing an incredibly profound
phenomenon that could be produced within the Earth by what is called the 'Tesla
Effect.' According to the article, electromagnetic signals of certain
frequencies can be transmitted through the Earth to form standing waves in the
Earth itself. In certain cases, coherence to this standing wave can be induced
wherein a fraction of the vast, surging electromagnetic current of the Earth
itself feeds into and augments the induced standing wave. In other words,
"much more energy is now present in the standing wave than the ...amount
being fed in from the Earth's surface." By interferometer techniques,
giant standing waves can be combined to produce a focused beam of very great
energy. This can then be used to produce earthquakes induced at distant aiming
points.
Tesla expressed
grave concerns about the effects of this technology because it is exactly the
type of thing that could easily get out of control once it begins vibrating
within the Earth - and it could actually cause the Earth to vibrate to pieces.
Could the use of this technique have been responsible for the great earthquake
in Tangshan, China in 1976?
Another leading
Tesla researcher and nuclear engineer, Lt. Col. Thomas Bearden, lecturing at a
Symposium of the US Psychotronics Association (USPA) in 1981 stated:
Tesla found that he
could set up standing waves. in the earth (the molten core), or, just set it up
through the rocks - the telluric activity in the rocks would furnish activity
into these waves and one would get more potential energy in those waves than he
put in. He called the concept the Tesla Magnifying Transmitter (TMT).
Bearden goes on to
explain how TMTs worked:
They will go through
anything. What you do is that you set up a standing wave through the earth and
the molten core of the earth begins to feed that wave (we are talking Tesla
now). When you have that standing wave, you have set up a triode. What you've
done is that the molten core of the earth is feeding the energy and it's like
your signal - that you are putting in - is gating the grid of a triode. Then
what you do is that you change the frequency. If you change the frequency one
way (start to dephase it), you dump the energy up in the atmosphere beyond the
point on the other side of the earth that you focused upon. You start ionising
the air, you can change the weather flow patterns (jet streams etc) - you can
change all that - if you dump it gradually, real gradually - you influence the
heck out of the weather. It's a great weather machine. If you dump it sharply,
you don't get little ionisation like that. You will get flashes and fireballs
(plasma) that will come down on the surfaces of the earth. you can cause
enormous weather changes over entire regions by playing that thing back and
forth.
HAARP: The
Pentagon's Ultimate Weapon
In an Arctic
compound 450 kilometres east of Anchorage, Alaska, the Pentagon has erected a
powerful transmitter designed to beam more than a gigawatt of energy into the
upper reaches of the atmosphere. Known as Project HAARP (High-frequency Active
Auroral Research Program), the $30 million experiment involves the world's
largest "ionospheric heater," a prototype device designed to zap the
skies hundreds of kilometres above the earth with high-frequency radio waves.
Why irradiate the
charged particles of the ionosphere (which when energised by natural processes
make up the lovely and famous phenomenon known as the Northern Lights)?
According to the US Navy and Air Force, co-sponsors of the project, "to
observe the complex natural variations of Alaska's ionosphere." As well,
admit the Pentagon, to develop new forms of communications and surveillance
technologies to enable the military to send signals to nuclear submarines and
to peer deep underground.
Ever since the
existence of HAARP became public, a number of independent researchers have
warned the operation has a secret agenda including weather modification, mind
control, hi-tech military experiments, and the triggering of earthquakes.
Alarmingly, HAARP technology appears well suited to enforce a host of the
oppressive goals and agendas of the New World Order.
HAARP transmissions
may also be used for the detection and monitoring of electromagnetic or
"plasma" phenomena, precursors of seismic activity and tectonic
movement. Researchers believe HAARP transmissions are actually being used to
activate or trigger exactly the same electromagnetic conditions that can cause
tectonic movement.
Jerry Smith in his
book HAARP: The Ultimate Weapon of the Conspiracy, warns many atmospheric
scientists working on the secretive military project might be unaware of
HAARP's grave potential to wreak havoc on the earth. He writes:
If HAARP is a TMT
[Tesla Magnifying Transmitter], and these researchers correctly understand
Tesla's work, we could be in a lot of trouble. It is quite possible that the
scientists working on HAARP do not know that they are playing with. Beyond that
their ignorance might be compounded if HAARP is indeed a secretive black-ops
military project. The military has devised a way of keeping secrets called
'compartmentalisation' where each unit knows only what it needs to know. Only
the control group knows what's going on. If there is a control group familiar
with TMTs directing the actions of scientists unschooled in Tesla technology,
those lower level operatives could be directed to wreak havoc with created
weather or manufactured earthquakes..
Vast Amounts of
Energy
In 1966, Professor
Gordon J. F. MacDonald was associate director of the Institute of Geophysics
and Planetary Physics at the University of California, Los Angeles, a member of
the US President's Science Advisory Committee, and later a member of the US
President's Council on Environmental Quality.
He published papers
on the use of environmental-control technologies for military purposes.
MacDonald made a revealing comment: "The key to geophysical warfare is the
identification of environmental instabilities to which the addition of a small
amount of energy would release vastly greater amounts of energy. "
World-renowned
scientist MacDonald developed ideas for using the environment as a weapon
system and he contributed to what was, at the time, only in the wildest dream
of a futurist. When he wrote his chapter, "How To Wreck The
Environment," for the book Unless Peace Comes, he was not kidding around.
In it he describes the use of weather manipulation, climate modification, polar
ice cap melting or destabilisation, ozone depletion techniques, earthquake
engineering, ocean wave control and brain wave manipulation using the planet's
energy fields.
He speculated these
types of weapons would be developed and, when used, would be virtually
undetectable by their victims. Is HAARP one such weapon?
Cohen's Admission
In 1997 the US
Secretary of Defense, William Cohen, delivered a speech on terrorism at the
University of Georgia. Reuters quoted him as saying, "Precautions against
unconventional arms must be intensified as potential terrorists develop
chemical and biological weapons and electromagnetic methods that could create
holes in the ozone layer or trigger earthquakes or volcanoes."
Cohen's admission
reveals he has direct knowledge of such potential weapons. But it's hard to
conceive of "terrorists developing the capacity to "trigger
earthquakes". Hardly, when one considers the Pentagon's HAARP project. A
more likely explanation is that Cohen was warning against allowing such
technology to spread to other countries.
Outback Mystery
The weapons used in
World War III will make the atomic and hydrogen bombs look like toys. At
present, the centerpiece of the Russian arsenal is called the star-reflector
cannon. The United States has the Strategic Defense Initiative, and the
extension of this is 'microplasma.' - Shoko Asahara, 19 April, 1993, leader of
Aum Shinrikyo
A mysterious
incident in the outback of Western Australia, reported in New Dawn No. 41
(March-April 1997), directly relates to the subject of man-made earthquakes.
Late on the evening
of May 28, 1993, something radiated shock waves outward across hundreds of
miles of scrub and desert. Around the same time, truck drivers crossing the
region and gold prospectors camping nearby saw the dark sky illuminated by
bright flashes, and they as well as other people heard the distant rumble of
loud explosions.
The mysterious event
might have been lost to history except for the interest of investigators in
Australia and the United States, who eventually came to speculate if the
upheaval was the work of the Japanese Aum Shinrikyo group accused of the
poison-gas attack on Tokyo subways in 1995. At the time Aum had set up an
advanced laboratory on a 500,000-acre property near the puzzling upheaval. The
disturbance shook the earth on May 28, 1993, but it was not until after the
Tokyo attack of March 1995, that an Australian geologist, Harry Mason, brought
the seismic upset to the attention of Australian Federal Police and later to US
investigators.
Seismic
observatories in Australia tracked the event to a location 28.47 degrees south
latitude, 121.73 degrees east longitude, a remote area near the group's
property.
Mason's 19-page
report summarised interviews he had conducted with people who were in the
remote area on that clear moonless night. They saw the sky ablaze, heard loud
explosions and felt the ground shake, in one case knocking beer cans off a
table. Mason noted that earthquakes were very rare in the region and that
mining explosions were illegal at night.
Mason now believes
the explosion was caused by "a very advanced electromagnetic weapons
system." He also thinks that the red dome witnessed on the night of 28
May, 1993 was a Tesla Shield, a device that theoretically can disable nuclear
weapons.
Eventually, the
US-based Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) calculated
the event was 170 times bigger than the largest mining explosion ever recorded
in the Australian region, thus ruling out that possibility. The disturbance was
calculated as having the force of a small nuclear explosion, perhaps equal to
up to 2,000 tons of high explosives. But the signature of the disturbance
seemed to be more that of an earthquake than a nuclear explosion.
No mention of the
seismic riddle was made in well-publicised hearings the US Senator Nunn ran in
late 1995 on Aum Shinrikyo. On 15 December, 1995, Nunn wrote to IRIS, stating
that their scientific work helped Senate investigators "rule out certain
terrorist activities."
Still, one remote
possibility remained. Aum Shinrikyo had apparently studied seismic warfare and
the means of artificially triggering earthquakes.
The group apparently
sent a party of its own top scientists to the former Yugoslavia to study the
work of Nicola Tesla. At the Tesla Museum in Belgrade, the members reviewed
Tesla's thesis and other research papers discussing such weapons.
In New Dawn No. 39,
a report on the work of Aum Shinrikyo's Science and Technology Minister, Hideo
Murai, revealed that the group was interested in advanced weapons, including
"laser-powered seismic weapons." On 7 April, 1995 Murai responded in
a press conference to a question about a rumoured 'earthquake machine'. He
remarked there was a strong possibility the Kobe earthquake was activated using
"electromagnetic power," or that somebody used a device that
"applied force inside the earth."
Shortly after this
press conference, a lone assassin stabbed Hideo Murai to death in full view of
the Japanese media. Was Murai murdered to silence him? He was one of Aum's most
visible figures with fluent English and a pleasant demeanour that made him an
international spokesman.
An Aum Shinrikyo
book, Disaster Approaches the Land of the Rising Sun, devotes considerable
space on how to guard against radiation, electromagnetic pulses, biological and
chemical weapons, as well as more exotic laser, microwave and plasma weaponry.
It can be assumed
the Aum Shinrikyo group actively researched and even possibly tested advanced
weapons from a defensive point of view. Aum leaders were convinced the United
States had already used such weapons against their personnel and property, and
this may have driven the group's leaders into a paranoid frame of mind. Future
War Often we are told technological research in the military field is ten or
more years ahead of what we see today.
Frightening and
controversial projects like HAARP, with applications ranging from superbeam
weapon to worldwide mind control, should be of great concern to us all. And
most worrying is mounting evidence that the US military now has the ability to
create earthquakes - the ultimate weapon of war.
Could the recent
earthquakes in Turkey, Tiawan, Greece and Mexico be experimental test runs? If
so, how many more earthquakes will it take before this technology can be
directed at a chosen 'enemy'? It's a disturbing thought and one we all should
consider as the forces of the New World Order gather pace in their quest for
global control.