Author
and Geologist’s
Role
October 17, 2006 marked the seventeenth anniversary of the 7.1 major “World
Series Quake,” which rumbled through the San Francisco Bay
Area. There is one man behind this cataclysm that is often celebrated
for his uncanny prediction of this unforgettable event. The Cat-aclysm of ‘89
On October 13, 1989—just four days before the quake—the
Gilroy Dispatch published an article that it was a “perfect” time
for a tremor to hit. The article read: “. . . A county geologist
is predicting an earthquake to the Bay Area anytime from tomorrow
to the 21st of October. It will be the ‘World Series Quake,’ according
to Santa Clara County geologist Jim Berkland.” He predicted
the shaker could be a 3.5-to-6.0 on the Richter scale, basing his
prediction on the unusual gravitational pull of the Moon, Earth,
and missing pets in a Bay Area newspaper’s lost and found column.
What led this California geologist to stick his neck out this way?
Cats and dogs. While Berkland relies on full and new moons and tides
before pets, this time was different. Three weeks before he phoned
the Gilroy Dispatch, there were 27 missing cats, a record high compared
to an average of four or five. There were also 57 dogs missing in
late September, again a record high except for the usual Fourth of
July fireworks scares.
Four days after he notified the newspaper, at 5:04 p.m., just as
the third game of the 1989 World Series was about to begin, the ground
shook violently for 15 seconds along the San Andreas fault. It was
the deadliest earthquake to jolt Northern California since the San
Francisco quake of 1906.
Berkland wasn’t surprised. While most experts could pin down
the next California quake within a 30-year span, Berkland was right
to week! And the geologist’s Pacific Coast predictions still
rock on. . . October’s Predicted Pacific Shakers
Berkland’s October 5-12 seismic window--the 8-day period associated
with the monthly highest tidal forces based on the alignment of the
Sun-Moon-Earth (syzygy) and the monthly closest approach of the Moon
(perigee)—delivered two major Pacific earthquakes.
Japan: Author-“earthquake
sensitive” Cal Orey follows the “shaky ground specialist’s
earthquake methods” and puts her own uncanny sixth sense to
work. She tunes in to her own dreams, visions, seismically sensitive
pets, and ear tones. Her sensing and predicting on Berkland’s
website www.sygyzyjob.com, has led to accurate “hits” in
both Northern and Southern California, and even Japan.
In October, she posted
a prediction on Berkland’s website, she wrote
"Message: Left ear tone, faint earlier this a.m.
Date: 10/09/2006
From: COrey39184
To: Corey39184
5.0+ Japan on or offshore within 48 hours; second potential place
offshore NoCA near Eureka or Crescent City within 48 hours, 4.0+.
On Wednesday, October 11, 2006 at 9:58 a.m. a 5.8 moderate earthquake
hit off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan. It was upgraded to a strong
6.0 quake. But that’s not all. . .
Hawaii: Berkland’s October 2006 predictions included these
words: “7.0+ major quake globally within the Pacific Ring of
Fire where about 80% of the strongest quakes occur each year."
On October 15, an earthquake hit Hawaii at 7:07 a.m. local time 10
miles north-northwest of Kailua Kona, a town on the west coast of
the Big Island. The Pacific Tsunami Center reported a 6.5, while
the United States Geological Survey gave it a 6.6.
While Hawaii is not exactly in the Pacific Ring of Fire, Berkland’s
seismic windows do apply worldwide—and to the weekend Hawaii
quake. Thus, his seismic window for October 5-12 means that the strong
quake hit three days after providing the man who predicts earthquakes
a 70% successful hit.
What’s more, on October 15, Berkland told Orey that the earthquake
had to be a 6.7 not the 6.6, reported by the USGS to get credit in
his system. Because of the destruction and intensity of the earthquake
he predicted that the original magnitude would be upgraded to a 6.7--and
he was right on the money.
Bracing for the West Coast Vibrations
Meanwhile, the geologist still gives the odds of a 6.0 quake
to hit Southern California at 70% for this year. It is based on a
variety of factors, from the lapse in the time since the last 6.0
plus hit, which normally occurs about every 5 years to the near-record
rainfall in 2004-2005 which almost topped the all-time high for L.A.,
which came after a near-record drought of 2001.Berkland says March,
April, and October, are the big earthquake months.
Orey’s book, The Man Who Predicts Earthquakes:
Jim Berkland, Maverick Geologist—How His Quake Warnings Can
Save Lives (Sentient
Publications, 2006), is full of cutting-edge advice about do-it-yourself
quake warnings and earthquake preparedness. This book’s publication
is timely for Southern Californians and anyone living or visiting
regions on shaky ground around the globe who await the long overdue
Big One.
The Big Wave
Many of Geologist Jim Berkland’s theories—based on
tides, full and new moons, disoriented animals—were factors
in the Great Indian Ocean quake-tsunami on December 26, 2004. On
the day of the Full Moon, a 9.3 great earthquake, according to
the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, hit off the west coast of Northern
Sumatra, and the big wave of destruction followed.
In Sri Lanka, an island south of India, wildlife officials reported
that at the Yala National park, near the area of mass destruction,
elephants, leopards, and deer survived. Unlike humans, few animal
carcasses were found after the killer tsunami hit the wildlife
sanctuary.
Berkland is not surprised by the post-tsunami disaster reports
of the animals and their “sixth sense.” After all,
he has been creating a buzz worldwide about our amazing seismic
sentries for decades..
Author Cal Orey, and her canine companion, Simon, a Brittany who
is seismically sensitive, have predicted accurate earthquake “hits” in
both Northern and Southern California, and even Japan. Cal Orey is the “Woman Who Predicts Earthquakes”.
Check out her website at: www.calorey.com
The Cat-aclysm of ‘89
