Cal Orey
"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood.
I'd type a little faster."
                                   
                                    --Isaac Asimov
Cal Orey is an accomplished author and journalist who holds a master's degree in English (Creative Writing) from San Francisco State University. Over the past 15 years, she has written hundreds of health-related articles for national magazines and websites, specializing in topics as diverse as health, nutrition, and sexual health. Her articles have appeared in The Writer, Woman's World, Woman's Day, Men's Fitness, Let's Live, as well as Complete Woman, for which she is a contributing editor. Ms. Orey is also the author of the best-selling book The Healing Powers of Vinegar, and Doctors' Order: What 101 Doctors Do to Stay Healthy. Get her new book:

The Man Who Predicts Earthquakes.


New research shows Geologist Jim Berkland was right on the money, as always. . .  On the back cover of The Man Who Predicts Earthquakes, author Cal Orey wrote:

"Many of Berkland's theories were factors in the great Indian Ocean quake-tsunami disaster on December 26, 2004."  See in Part Four: The Big Wave

Moon and rain could mean quakes
25 October 2006
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A full moon may have triggered the Indian Ocean earthquake that caused the tsunami on 26 December 2004, a new study concludes.

Between October 2004 and August 2005 Robin Crockett from the University of Northampton, UK, and his colleagues monitored tremors and collected tidal data along the Java/Sumatra trench. They found that major quakes were 86 per cent more likely around new and full moons, when tides are at their greatest.

"At new and full moons the biggest mass of water is being loaded and unloaded at the plate boundary," Crockett says. That might be the final push that initiates a quake.

Meanwhile Sebastian Hainzl from the University of Potsdam, Germany, and his colleagues have noticed that rain can also trigger quakes. In 2002 they monitored tremors, rainfall and groundwater pressure in south-east Germany.

They found that water from a heavy rainstorm can reach spots underground where masses of rock are trying to move past each other but are stuck together by friction. The water can ease the friction, releasing pent-up tension so that the rocks jerk past each other and initiate tremors as deep as 4 kilometres underground (Geophysical Research Letters, DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027074 and 10.1029/2006GL027642).

From issue 2574 of New Scientist magazine, 25 October 2006, page 17

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19225745.100-moon-and-rain-could-mean-quakes.html





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