Earthquakes: Natural or Man-Made? Source: New Dawn No. 57 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. 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 earthquake."
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.
Footnotes
1. Los Angeles Times, 21 September
2.
http://www.wittenberg.edu/academics/geol/progcrs/geol220/finneart/inde
x.shtml
3. From HAKAN, konac@pop3.ada.net.tr
By Jason Jeffrey
http://www.newdawnmagazine.com.au/Articles/Earthquakes%20Natural%20or%
20Man-made.html
- Plato in Timaeus