Scientist warns full moon could cause devastating mega quake to hit US as early as FRIDAY
A GEOLOGIST was warned that a devastating earthquake and tsunami could hit the United States, potentially threatening millions of lives, within the next 48 hours.
By JON AUSTIN
Express.co.uk
Wed, Apr 20, 2016
Jim Berkland, a former US Geological Survey scientist, who once famously predicted the Loma Prieta quake and claims he continues to forwarn of other ones, says mega quakes usually strike at a new moon or full moon, because of the gravitation effect on the Earth…and the next full moon due is on Friday.
The maverick, now retired, scientist spoke out after eight powerful earthquakes struck across south Asia and the pacific in the past 80 hours, claiming hundreds of lives in Japan and Ecuador.
Mr Berkland predicted on October 13, 1989, an earthquake of magnitude 3.5 to 6.0 would strike San Francisco within the next week.
Four days later on October 17 a magnitude 6.9 quake hit Loma Prieta.
He now says 20 of the world’s last 25 mega quakes have happened during new or full moons.
He is most concerned about the the San Andreas Fault through California and the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which is further north along the coast of Oregon and Washington State, as both areas are long over due a so-called “Big One” earthquake and would likely cause devastating tsunamis to surge over the west coast if it happened.
He said: “Beware the new and full moons.”
He says this causes “equinoctal tides,” which are extreme gravitational forces that cause solid earth to expand and contract, in the way ocean tides rise and fall.
Mr Berkland studied geology at the University of California, Berkeley.
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