> I have never heard of an earthquake in the
> gulf of Mexico offshore of Louisiana. How
> very strange! I don't read "judgements
> of God" or anything into this. I just
> find it very odd.
That's true.
I wouldn't blame God either.
But odd things do happen.
Senator Claiborne Pell
10 October 1976
"We need a treaty now to prevent such actions -- before the military leaders of the world start directing storms, manipulating climates, and inducing earthquakes against their enemies. The basic idea of environmental warfare is simple -- if a nation can learn to trigger natural events it can inflict terrible damage on an enemy through rainfall, flooding, tidal waves, earthquakes, and even climate changes that could devastate an enemy nation's agriculture."
Civilian studies about how manmade electromagnetic pulses can induce earthquakes
One study
http://www.ingv.it/ing/ing712/INTAS99www/report/finalReport/annex1.htm
http://www.ingv.it/ing/ing712/INTAS99www/report/1year/annex2/IGannex.html
Field test.
...sounding with the aid of an magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) generator...
The MHD generator was loaded by a 4.5-km long electrical (grounded) dipole. During the experiments, a total 34 and 85 MHD runs were made, respectively.
Later, significant spatial and temporal variations of the seismic regime in the above areas were detected, the seismicity after the MHD runs being significantly higher than before the runs. Sharp activation of local activity took place between the 2nd and 7th day after the run and lasted several days. The total additional energy released by the weak shocks after all the runs was 5-6 orders of magnitude the total electromagnetic (EM) energy discharged.
Laboratory test:
The preliminary experiments, carried out in dry environment, show that strong EM-pulse (1200 V) induces acoustic emission and eventually, sliding of a sample of rock (granite, basalt, labradorite), placed on the supporting sample, which is inclined at the slope, close to, but less than the critical angle.
Another related study:
Project Summary:
... to determine physical nature of the induced seismicity under electromagnetic impact caused by the MHD generator...
Seismicity is ... highly sensitive to external impacts, both natural and technogenic. The induced seismicity is caused mainly by human technological activity.
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- Sharp activation of local earthquakes takes place on 2th-7th day after the MHD runs, its duration being within several days."
http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.net/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?noframes;read=18798
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The above civilian university studies noted a marked increase of seismic activity after the application of relatively small pulses of electromagnetic energy into the test area.
So what would happen in a military situation where much stronger impulses were applied?
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The June 5, 1977, New York Times described the great earthquake which destroyed Tangshan, China on July 28, 1976, and killed 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."
Sounds like an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) weapon doesn't it?
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Such weapons, (often called Scalar Weapons) do exist. And as shown in the studies above, electromagnetic pulse can induce earthquakes.