Biologist Marsha Adams, 38, thinks she may have found that key 93 million miles away from the Earth in the hot, turbulent atmosphere of the sun. Moreover,
Adams, who is at SRI International, a nonprofit California think tank, has data
she says indicate that certain people can somehow sense the forces that trigger
earthquakes before they occur.
“I didn't start out as a sun freak,” says Adams candidly. “But I’ve come to realize that almost all variations that occur in biological and physical processes may be
the result of fluctuations in solar activity.
SAN FRANCISCO -- A headache or crummy feeling may be a signal there's an earthquake around the corner, a biologist and statistical analyst says.
Marsha Adams is in touch with two dozen people who claim they can sense an earthquake before it comes. They get a little bit sick - headache, queasiness or just a run-down feeling, she sais.
One of her subjects has a batting average of 90 percent in forecasting earthquakes near and far, Ms. Adams said Monday.
'There is nothing weird, nothing supernatural, nothing psychic about this,' Ms. Adams told United Press International.
'Animals seem to respond to 'invisible weather' changes that occur before an earthquake.
'If animals have foreknowledge of earthquakes coming, why not people? People are talking animals. There is no law of nature that we are above or exempt from anything that influences the lower animals.
'The animal goes into a corner and howls. People can pick up a telephone and say 'I feel headachy. I feel nauseated.''
Ms. Adams of Los Altos, Calif., was a biology researcher for 18 years and then became a statistical analyst for SRI International, a research firm in Menlo Park. She has set up her own research firm to study human responses as a means of predicting earthquakes.
She has lined up 25 people who call in whenever they have a headache or other symptom that cannot be easily attributed to something else.
'I have worked out the statistics and computer programs to interpret these symptoms and keep a track record of each person in the study,' she said.
'The correlation works out very nicely. In fact, there is only one chance in 1,000 that I am wrong about this.'
Ms. Adams concedes she doesn't know exactly why some people get headaches before an earthquake. But she suspects it may have something to do with electromagnetic radiation, or gas released into the atmosphere when things underground are getting ready to move.
As a statistician, Ms. Adams knows there are a lot of headaches in the world every day, and earthquakes happen somewhere in the world every few days. Thus there is bound to be pretty good correlation.
But she says her calcualtions have taken all this into consideration and her findings remain statistically significant.
Most earthquake experts scoff at ideas like those of Ms. Adams. She explains this as the result of a 'schism of the sciences.'
Seismologists 'don't know anything about biological processes,' she said. 'I am trying to bring together various sciences.'
SAN FRANCISCO -- A man who suffers from 'earthquake sickness,' telephoned the Time Research Institute predicting an earthquake one hour before a 6.2 rumbler hit central California Tuesday, the Institute director said Saturday.
Eric Fleming, a clerk in San Francisco State University's admissions office, said he felt dizzy and itchy the night before the quake and again about an hour before it began.
Marsha Adams, president of the private Time Institute in Los Altos, Calif., confirmed that Fleming called her at 12:08 p.m. Tuesday to predict the quake that caused nearly $8 million damage in several communities just south of San Francisco.
Fleming had similar physiological reactions just before the May 1982 earthquake in Coalinga, Calif., Ms. Adams said.
'During the earthquake,' Fleming said, 'I blacked out and I heard my supervisor yelling for everyone to get away from the counter or the windows. It was hard to make out what he was saying.
'But I couldn't move at all. Later, the room started spinning and spinning and my heart felt like it was going to pop out,' he said.
Ms. Adams, whose research institute has for more than a decade been studying the possibility that some animals and people can sense when an earthquake is about to begin, said Fleming is one of abut 50 people who call her when quake sickness symptoms begin.
Most of them feel sick one to five days before a quake, she said.
Fifteen other people also called the Institute during the week before Tuesday's quake and reported quake sickness, she said.
Fleming reported that he recovered from his Monday night dizzyness and felt fine Tuesday morning until an hour before the quake.
'I was up and about Tuesday morning,' he said. 'Later I started getting sudden dizzy spells and felt like throwing up.'
After the quake hit, Fleming was unable to move around for about three hours, he said.
Adams said Fleming has been correct 80 percent of the time he has predicted seismic activity.
The predictions are not made public until after a quake, she said, because the warnings could cause panic.
In two surveys of headaches it was noted that their incidence had increased significantly within 48 h prior to earthquakes from an incidence of 17% to 58% in the first survey using correlated samples and from 20.4% to 44% in the second survey using independent samples. It is suggested that an increase in positive air ions from rock compression may trigger head pain via a decrease in brain levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin. The findings are presented as preliminary, with the hope of generating further research efforts in areas more prone to earthquakes.
Electromagnetic (EM) signals in the frequency range below 1,000 Hz have been monitored since 1981 for the purpose of earthquake forecasting. Signal strength increased more than 7 standard deviations above the mean prior to 3 major California Earthquakes; Coalinga (1983), Whittier Narrows (1987), and Lorna Prieta (1989). The signal increases occurred 10 days to one month prior to the earthquakes. They were continuously elevated until after each earthquake occurred.
An effort to forecast time and location of smaller earthquakes in the magnitude 2-4 range is underway. Expert system software has been developed to interpret the EM signals in near real time. The expert system makes forecasts on a daily basis for selected areas in California. A preliminary statistical analysis of recent forecasts appears promising, yielding probabilities of p 1*10-4 or better.
On August 7, 1990 another series of strong signals began. They have continued for an unprecedented length of time and are still present at the time of submission of this paper on October 16, 1990.
Several observations were made of Very Low Frequency (VLF) emissions apparently associated with earthquakes, which were recorded independently at ground-based stations and on satellites. The observations at the Kerguelen station (49"26'S, 70°25'E) were made using magnetic antennae, on April 24 and 25, 1980, during a period when three earthquakes with magnitude Ms > 4.7 took place near the station. Several increases of electromagnetic waves at the time of earthquakes were recorded on the polar-orbiting satellite AUREOL-3. The observations on the geostationary GEOS-2 satellite were made using magnetic and electric antennae during the period 1977- 198 1. Data were analysed for those cases when both intense (M, > 5) earthquakes occurred in the region close to the satellite longitude and the satellite was operating in the VLF mode. A statistical analysis, based on the
enhancement of wave intensity at the time of earthquakes and using GEOS-2 data, seems to indicate that there is a (possibly indirect) association between seismic activity and some of the VLF emissions observed at the satellite. Ionospheric measurements made from the ground also showed an increase of the critical frequencyfoE, of the sporadic layer Es when earthquakes occurred nearby. Some aspects of the relation between the VLF emissions and the seismic activity are discussed.
Marsha Adams, at the Time Research Institute in San Francisco, developed sensors that measure low-frequency electromagnetic signals, which, she says, allow her to predict earthquakes with over 90% accuracy. Adams set up a network of electromagnetic sensors along some of the major faultlines in California, and from the input she receives--which Is analyzed by specialized computer software--she issues weekly earthquake forecasts. Adams suspects that low-frequency electromagnetic signals-created by the fracturing of crystalline rock deep In the earth along fault lines can have biological consequences, and that her instruments are picking up the same signals that sensitive animals do.
Inspired by a 1985 talk on “earthquake lights” by USGS scientist John Derr, QuakeFinder founder Tom Bleier embarked on a search for electromagnetic signals associated with earthquakes. Starting with a tree as an antenna, and progressing to a 20-foot copper coil on the wall of his house, he looked for anything in the data that might provide an explanation for the lights or as reported in scientific papers, the radio interference before earthquakes in Chile and Japan.
A Report on Research Activities Carried Out in 2000 for the National Reconnaissance Office
Submitted by The Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS), Northeastern University
Most people seem to have no perception of earthquakes. However, a scientist in California, USA, has shown through studies that humans can also exhibit anomalies like some animals during a brief period before an earthquake. For example, in the San Francisco Bay Area in the United States, residents there may experience signs of irritability, irritability, dizziness, headache, nausea within 72 hours before the earthquake. In addition, the U.S. biologist Martha Adams also analyzed human anomalies before the earthquake and found that the accuracy of the prediction can reach 80% within 8 days.
These weird luminaries are often studied by UFO enthusiasts as UFO, but more studies show that these luminaries are closely related to earthquakes, and earthquakes occur in the area shortly after the UFO was frequently reported somewhere.
Sense of Danger explores the previously unexplained phenomenon of how animals around the world use their innate senses to predict approaching disasters. This film produces evidence from looking at major worldwide disasters, including the tsunami in Thailand and earthquakes in San Francisco and Turkey. It also looks at the 1975 earthquake in China, the only major earthquake in history predicted by animal instinct – which saved 200,000 lives.
Do our animal friends possess a special sense, well beyond human ability, that serves as an efficient early warning system in times of danger? The film pursues this question through firsthand accounts of wildlife specialists and interviews with experts, many of whom are beginning to understand what animal lovers always suspected. The film is not without controversy, pitting "animal listeners" against skeptics who believe this work belongs in the realm of fairy tales. The challenge is to discover where the truth lies and if the animals truly “knew” something that we didn’t.
Tom Bleier, CEO of Quakefinder, whose company joined forces with Stanford University and Lockheed Martin Corp to launch Quakesat 1, said yesterday he applauded China's latest effort.
You see a light in the sky. Is it a star, an airplane, a military flare, or a bona fide UFO? Marsha Adams, president of the International Earthlight Alliance, will show you methods to determine if your sighting is truly anomalous. Adams has done field research for more than a decade taking photographs and geophysical measurements in areas where “earthlights” occur, at sacred sites in the American Southwest, Norway, Scotland and England. (Earthlights are balls of light that arise spontaneously over the ground. Earthlights are often mistakenly classified as craft).
This magnetic oddity got a closer look Thursday at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco as scientists debated whether it was just an instrument error or an actual phenomenon that could potentially be used to warn of future quakes hours — or weeks — ahead of time.
Marsha Adams, president of an educational nonprofit organization, the International Earthlight Alliance, does scientific investigations of interesting ancient lore and anomalies to attract the interest of students and the public to science. IEA seeks the truth, separating science from pseudoscience.
IEA is a multipurpose organization that seeks to efficiently combine research and education using state of the art technology to investigate a genuine scientific mystery. IEA endeavors to demonstrate ways that science and research can become more creative and attractive to students by inviting public participation.
Marsha Adams investigates influences of the measurable geophysical environment on biological processes. She has examined databases of tens of thousands of cases of biological data correlating them with solar-terrestrial activity. She goes on world wide expeditions to measure sacred sites, earthlight sites, effigy mounds, Mexican pyramids, geopathic zones, and even crop circles. She has assembled a geophysical observatory in Sedona, AZ to study earthlights and other anomalies that exist in the area.
Scientists in Japan are investigating whether the behaviour of animals, including cats, fish and snakes, could be monitored to predict when an earthquake is about to happen. They believe there is evidence to suggest animals can sense changes in the atmosphere when the ground is about to shake, although some experts in the field have questioned their claim.
Adams is also internationally known for pioneering the idea that earthquakes may be forecast using extremely low frequency electromagnetic radiation and this radiation may be responsible for animal anomalies reported prior to earthquakes. She views humans as "talking animals" who are not exempt from the same influences. She will comment on the symptoms that people may experience prior to earthquakes. Dowsers may be particularly sensitive to these signals.
Earthquake Lights (EQLs) seem to be old phenomena. Irish engineer and amateur seismologist Robert Mallet published a catalogue in 1851-1855, where he dated back EQLs to Biblical times, interpreting descriptions of fire-columns in the Bible as early observations of EQLs. The Italian priest and naturalist Ignazio Galli published in 1910 a first classification scheme of EQLs. In his book Raccolta e classificazione dei fenomeni luminosi osservati nei terremoti (Collection and Classification of luminous phenomena observed during earthquakes) he recognized four types: short-lasting (just a few seconds) and long-lasting (for minutes or hours) diffuse lights, flares and luminescent clouds and finally moving orbs of light.
Marsha Adams, a researcher with the International Earthlight Alliance, describes a “sacred site signal” she picks up with her magnetometer at Native American sacred sites, at Sedona, and in crop circles. The sacred site signal is similar to the signal recorded by Lonetree. This signal, “starts out small and grows in size while oscillating more and more slowly, stops then reverses to faster oscillations”. Is the signal man-made, she asks? Not likely, as these recordings are done in remote areas.
Scientists have long thought that earthquake prediction is impossible, but Stanford alum Celeste Ford, MS ’75, Aeronautics & Astronautics, takes another view.
It is Michael Persinger who coined the phrase "Anomalous Luminous Phenomena" to avoid having to use the term UFO, with its negative connotations. The Tectonic Strain Theory that he posits with Gyslaine Lafrenière states that ALP are "natural events, generated by stresses and strains within the earth's crust", and goes on to submit that the magnetic disturbances associated with the strains can mar the observational integrity of witnesses to the events. Their work predates Devereux by several years, but Devereux devoted as much work to singling out and identifying the phenomenon as he did in offering possible explanations for the mechanism behind it.
On 3rd November 1996, the British science show Equinox aired a program called Identified Flying Objects mainly featuring Paul Devereux, but also containing interviews with Derr, Persinger, Akers, and some of the other personalities involved in earth light research (this is how my attention was drawn to the phenomenon). Here's how the show was described at the time: "Using extraordinary earthlight footage and expert opinion, tonight Equinox travels to Marfa, and to other earthlight spots in Mexico, Norway, and the Australian Outback, to witness these investigations that may take science into a new era - the era of Identified Flying Objects." Accompanying the show was a booklet produced by the Broadcasting Support Services.
In 2003, Dr. Marsha Adams along with some other prominent researchers including Prof. Erling Strand started the IEA, the International Earthlights Alliance, a research organisation devoted to the study of earth lights.
