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11-01-06 - DREAM - I was living in a house I didn't recognize
with my family. the kids seemed to change ages by 10 years in the dream.
they were originally like 3 to 6 years old in the beginning and teenagers
by the end.
The hallway was so wide, the carpeting was a full size or larger
blanket and was hard to walk on because it was loose.
I got a phone call in my bedroom from a researcher in Seattle and he
wanted me to tell him my dream about Seattle. I told him, that was a
couple months ago, I'll have to look for it. So I got my big blue binder
and started paging backwards from November back through August.
(This current binder is red and starts in May of 06, so it had to
have been in 05. That binder is blue)
While I was looking for the dream, I went back to the phone and only
heard a dial tone, but figured I'd have the guy's phone number on my
telephone I.D. so I could call him back when I found the specific dream
about Seattle he was referring to.
It seemed a good idea to have all the phone numbers for researchers
in the northwest so we could contact each other if something seemed
imminent.
My kids were rearranging the furniture in the bedroom and making
more room for a white bookcase.
Just then a young woman came in and started making fun of me for
reading love letters and I explained to her that this was my dream journal
and it contained good information about things that were going to happen
in the future. Just in case: Here is the August dream from 06:
8-7-06 - THE TSUNAMI
I was managing a large apartment
building somewhere on the shore of an ocean.
From observing out the window, it seemed to be the spring of the
year. My neighbor stopped in to say Hi and express her joy at finding
a
new boyfriend. She only stayed a minute and then rushed down the hall to
her apartment.
Right after she left, I spotted some colored Calla Lilies in a
bouquet wrapped in florist paper. The odd thing about them was that they
had stems at least 10 feet long. They were just laying on the lawn. so I
rushed outside and moved them into the shade of the building
on the side
so they wouldn't dry out, hoping they could be rooted and planted. Then I
went back into my apartment.
As I was looking out the window, I saw someone on top of the roof of
the house across the street launch a long large canoe off the
roof the
house into the water next to their house.
Just then a large semi-truck rushed to the left between me and the
water also.
Just that quick, the canoe and all the water from the beach started
rolling out towards the sea.
The water, rushing out to sea all at once meant only one thing to
me... tsunami.
There was nothing else going on and I felt stupid doing it, but I
owed it to the people I was caring for and rushing out into my apartment
hallway, yelling as loud as I could - "Tsunami, Tsunami, Get upstairs."
We had a four story building and we were on the second floor. My
friend lived all the way down at the other end of the building and I
owed
it to her to tell her what I just saw, so I ran further down the hall,
yelling all the way, so loud my voice started to go hoarse -
"Tsunami,
Tsunami".
I didn't know how much time we had to get upstairs, so as doors
popped open, when people heard me yelling, I could look into their
doors
and see what they were doing.
Women, wearing cotton house dresses were cleaning and their children
were playing on the floor with their toys. Some had their
hair in curlers,
so they would look nice later in the day when they would do a quick comb
out before their husbands came home
from work.
I had alerted everyone on my floor, that all I could do, so I headed
for the elevator. While I was waiting nervously for the elevator,
the
young man across the hall, hearing the commotion in the hallway, opened
the door to see what was going on. Several other
young men were sitting on
the couch and in overstuffed chairs and I could see cigarette and cigar
smoke hanging in the air.
From hindsight, I remember that these guys were dressed like it was
the 1920's. One guy had knickers on.
I breathlessly said, "There's a tsunami coming - get upstairs!"
The guy in the knickers just laughed derisively. "That's just an old
wives tale. Nothing is going to happen. The others laughed
at his words."
I said, "I can't make you do anything you don't want to do." and hit
the elevator button a couple more times for good measure,
knowing that
wouldn't make the elevator go any faster.
A crowd of people had gathered behind me, also waiting for the
elevator. Finally the elevator door opened.
The elevator was so jammed with people, there was no possible way to
get one person on it.
Again, from hindsight, these people were all wearing heavy winter
coats, all dark grey tweed, some had hats on. I swear, from
the looks of
their grey faces, and the fear I saw in their eyes, they already looked
dead.
I said to them, "I'll catch the elevator on the way down," and as
the elevator door closed, I hit the down button and the 'up'
button for good
measure.
Then I changed my mind and said to the others behind me, "I'm not
waiting for the elevator, I'm taking the stairs!"
I rushed around the corner to the stairs and found it already
jam-packed with people coming up from the first floor. they were
all panic
stricken. There wasn't room to squeeze a single solitary more person on
the stairway either. As it was it was moving
so slowly, people were
yelling up the stairway to move faster.
I heard a woman say, "Someone has a baby on the stairs and it won't
go any faster." Other people were carrying their kids.
I didn't see even
one person go up even one step. It seemed like as high as they were, thats
as high as they were going to get.
I figured that the upper floor must
already be full of people and there just was no more room to stuff another
person into this
building. Considering how the people were dressed, these
people had come in off the street to get to a higher floor before the
tsunami came rushing in.
There was no point to standing there in the hallway, so went back
to my apartment to look out the window and some other
women from my floor
came with me.
We looked out the window at the scene outside. The ocean shore was
several blocks out from it had been and looked brown
and glassy on top.
There was a huge tree out on our front lawn and it looked fresh with
small green leaves all over it.
the sky was now grey and a sudden downpour of rain came. It was so
sudden, it scared us, but it only lasted a moment and
stopped again.
Then we could see a greenish white fog coming in from the sea. It
was very ominous looking.
The greenish fog enveloped the tree, and then started to dissipate
again.
We started seeing things dripping from the tree. Several people
commented, "Did you see that?" as we saw long white things
like worms or
large seed pods fall out of the tree from behind the leaves which were
developing rapidly.
Then we could see long flowers developing, hanging downward from
their weight. They developed so fast, we were watching them
bloom in slow
motion.
One woman said, 'I've seen beautiful flowers on that tree before,
but not 5 different colors."
She was right, instead of just one color flower, the flowers hanging
down from the tree were 5 different colors.
All we could do now was wait for the water to come rushing in from
the sea and hope it didn't kill us.
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Here is the original posting
from
halfpasthuman.com
Note to the reading public:
Our work is based on
assigning emotional values in the form of numbers from a scale of
our own devising to quantities of conversations lifted from public
fora on the internet. We then look for "oddities, outliers, and
anomalies" of expression which may or may not occur within the
conversations being processed. Through an arcane, complex, and
complicated processing through software which we devised, the
changes in language around common subjects are extracted and
loaded into our modelspace {ed note: Intellicad, CAD program}.
Through further jiggery/pokery we tie these extracted bits of
language together and then produce forecasts of the emotional
outcomes of probable future events. From these emotional outcome
summations we attempt to trace back the flow to a cause or source
or trigger for the emotional summations received. Sometimes this
gets remarkably close to actual manifesting circumstances. But of
course, mostly it is wrong.
In reading the text below,
please note that the phrases in single quotes are those which
arise, in those words, from our processing.
Public Announcement:
Sure hate to do this. The
ramifications are not good for anyone. AT THE BEST, we are
incorrect, and nothing will occur. NOTE THAT- the best possible
outcome is that we are wrong yet again, and will, in 30/thirty
days time, slink off to mull over the foolishness of humans, and
the self-deceptive capability of the human mind.
However, the worst possible
case is that we are correct in our forecast as what we have is a
rising amount of 'emotional tension summations' around the idea of
a very large pan-Pacific plate earthquake which will involve
extensive volcanic activity. Yep. That's the problem. The most
recent processing of the 2/two report streams that we have open at
the moment are stating pretty clearly that the recent earthquake
activity in the Pacific basin is *not* over. Rather the
interpretation of our data suggests the reverse, and that the
Hawaii earthquake, the recent 'rising of land' near the island
nation of Tonga, and the Kuril Island 8.3 earthquakes are merely
the 'set up' for the next event in which an earthquake in the
Pacific plate induces {ed note: from the human perspective} both
volcanic activity, and propagated earthquakes on both sides of the
Pacific plate.
No, we do not get dates,
exact or vague. Our work does NOT involve prophecy. We do not get
messages from god or anything approximating that. So we do not get
dates for events. We base our emotive quantifiers on a time scale
of lunar months, and as the majority of the current indicators for
a pan-Pacific plate earthquake are coming from the immediacy value
set which has an emotional range of '3/three days out to 3/three
weeks' {more or less}, we are of the opinion that the potential
for the earthquake event is most likely within the next lunar
month or slightly less than 30 days, thus prior to December 17th,
2006.
Our interpretation of the
data set is going to a 'newly emerging mountain' as a result of or
cause of {ed note: who is to say which is the cause or effect} a
large, perhaps 9.5/nine-point-five earthquake in some 'great ocean
depth'. The modelspace interpretation suggests that this first
event will set off a series of very widely dispersed 'after
shocks' which will affect both the east and western edges of the
Pacific plate. We note that most of our geographic references are
for places north of the equator and thus the idea that this will
be a northern Pacific focused planetary change. There are some
indicators for volcanoes south to about 9/nine degrees latitude to
become active coincident with the 'plate quiver'.
The lexical clues which we
have suggest that 'isolation', and loss of both 'power' and 'food'
will result. Further there are 'aftermath' indicators for people
having to both 'leave/flee low lying areas' as well as 'camping
out {on} slippery/slick rocks'. This latter phrase comes from a
lexical grouping describing people 'fleeing rising waters' to more
height, even at the expense of what is described as 'necessary
foods/sustenance'. Further there are threads within this area
supporting the idea of 'food drops' to these unfortunates who are
having to live on 'weather exposed rocks' amidst 'sloshing waters'
long after the earth has 'subsided to relaxation of strain'. There
are other indicators that some coastal areas, especially very low
lying, now inhabited places which will be 'left to the waters' as
a result of this series of 'plate quivers'.
We have more data
interpretations, but the astute reader will grasp the general idea
from the above extracts. Please note that our reports in total are
expensive and we are NOT trying to elicit new subscriptions.
Please note that any additional data will NOT tell you anything
with surety about your personal safety.....let me repeat that for
those who have yet to have their coffee hit their commute dulled
brain cells. DO NOT THINK TO BUY OUR REPORTS on the idea that the
whole of the report will provide you with any more specific
details either timing, or geographic. Save your money or if so
inclined, use the funds to get prepared for potential future
events. What we have is condensed above. If anything appears
within the processing which warrants more discussion it will
likely be posted at Geo Ure's site, www.urbansurvival.com/week.htm
or posted here at Halfpasthuman in a publically available form.
Again, this is not a solicitation, rather is offered as a 'for
what it is worth'. Further discussions of the data set and any
additional information which may arrive prior to the end of
December will be posted on Geo. Ure's site should they be
meaningful.
What we have suggests that
if you are on the west coast of the north American continent, or
on the east coast of Asia, or on any Pacific plate based island,
that it is likely that you will be impacted to some degree by the
suggested events rising from our rather dubious processing and
software. What we have suggests that you pay attention now if you
are in the affected areas and see to the care and well being of
your personal situation so that you may be of assistance to those
who will be directly impacted by these earthquakes and subsequent
volcano activity.
Take heart from the fact
that we are frequently wrong. After all, no human has any clue
about what is really going on in the present, let alone the
future, and we are all just guessing our way through life,
universe, and everything.
Yes, we have hopes of being
very foolishly wrong. However we note with real sadness that our
approach to this work actually did catch the pan-global emotional
wave which resulted from the Sept. 11 attacks on the USofA, and we
caught it in June of 2001. It is this past history which prompts
this posting.
Still, here is hoping we are
wrong.
Clif
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Table 4t. Tsunami Death Table
| Date
|
Time
|
Lat.
|
Lon.
|
Dep.
|
Mag.
|
Country
|
Sum
|
1
|
2
|
3
|
4
|
5
|
6
|
1755
1101
|
9:20
~40
|
38
|
-9
|
|
8.6~9
|
Lisbon, Portugal
|
100,000 etf
|
Lisbon 90,000
|
Morocco 10,000
|
|
|
|
|
1946
0401
|
12:29
|
52.8
|
-163.5
|
25
|
8.3~8.6
|
Aleutian, USA
|
165t
|
Aleutian 5
|
Hawaii 159
|
|
|
|
|
1960
0522
|
19:10
|
-38.05
|
-73.34
|
10
|
9.5
|
Concepcion, Chile
|
2,231
|
Chile 2,000
|
Hawaii 61
|
Japan 138
|
Philip-
pines 32
|
|
|
1964
0327
|
3:36
|
61.6
|
-147.5
|
22
|
9.2
|
Alaska,
USA
|
9e,122t
|
Alaska 9e,106t
|
Oregon 4
|
CA
12
|
|
|
|
2004
1226
|
0:58
|
3.3
|
95.78
|
10
|
9.0
|
Sumatra, Indonesia
|
155,000 et
|
Indonesia 79,900et
|
Sri Lanka 41,000
|
India 10,000
|
Thai-
land 4,000
|
Somalia 120
|
Myanmar 90
Maldives 46
Malaysia 66
|
2006
0717
|
8:19
|
-9.22
|
107.32
|
34
|
7.7(7.2 before)
|
Java,
Indonesia
|
650
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Table 4. Devastating Earthquakes
| Date
|
Time
|
Lat.
|
Lon.
|
Dep.
|
Mb
|
Mag.
|
Country
|
Killed
|
Injured
|
missing
|
A.Homeless B.HouseDes. L.Livestock
|
Precursor
|
1990
0620
|
21:00
|
36.957
|
49.409
|
18
|
6.4
|
7.7Mw
|
N Iran
|
50,000
|
320,000
|
|
|
6/20/1990 3:00
|
1994
0117
|
12:30
|
34.213
|
-118.537
|
18
|
6.4
|
6.7Mw
|
Northridge, California USA
|
61
|
|
|
|
P.11/8/1994
|
1998
0204
|
14:33
|
37.075
|
70.089
|
33
|
5.6
|
6.1Ms
|
Rustaq, Afghanistan
|
4,000
|
16,000
|
|
|
P.1
1/1/1998
|
1999
0125
|
18:19
|
4.461
|
-75.724
|
17
|
5.9
|
6.4Me
|
Colombia
|
1,185
|
4,750
|
700
|
A.250,000
|
|
1999
0615
|
20:42
|
18.386
|
-97.436
|
70
|
6.4
|
7.0Mw
|
Puebla,
Mexico
|
20
|
>250
|
|
A.15,000
|
P.1
5/16/1999
|
1999
0817
|
1:39
|
40.748
|
29.864
|
17
|
6.3
|
7.7Me
|
Izmit,
Turkey
|
17,000
|
50,000
|
$3~6.5 billion
|
A.600,000
|
P.1
7/16/1999
|
1999
0920
|
17:47
|
23.772
|
120.982
|
|
6.5
|
7.7Mw
|
ChiChi,
Taiwan
|
2,400
|
8,700
|
$14 billion
|
A.600,000
|
|
1999
1112
|
16:57
|
40.79
|
31.11
|
33
|
6.3
|
7.2Mw
|
Turkey
|
894
|
5,108
|
|
B.15,389
|
P.1
9/26/1999
|
2000
0504
|
4:21
|
-1.105
|
123.573
|
26
|
6.7
|
7.5Mw
|
Sulawesi, Indonesia
|
46
|
264
|
|
|
|
2000
0604
|
16:28
|
-4.721
|
102.087
|
33
|
6.8
|
8Ms
|
Sumatera, Indonesia |
103
|
2,174
|
|
|
P.3
5/14/2000
|
2000
1125
|
18:11
|
40.167
|
49.954
|
33
|
6.2
|
6.3Mw
|
Caucasus, Russia
|
31
|
439
|
|
|
P.5
10/1/2000
|
2001
0113
|
17:33
|
13.049
|
-88.66
|
60
|
6.4
|
7.8Ms
|
El
Salvador |
844
|
4,723
|
|
B.108,226
|
P.5
1/10/2001
|
2001
0126
|
3:16
|
23.419
|
70.232
|
16
|
6.9
|
8Ms
|
Gujarat,
India
|
20,023
|
166,836
|
$6.5 billion
|
B.339,000
|
P.5
11/9/2000
|
2001
0213
|
14:22
|
13.671
|
-88.938
|
10
|
5.5
|
6.6Mw
|
El Salvador |
315
|
3.399
|
|
|
P.5
1/27/2001
|
2001
0623
|
20:33
|
-16.265
|
-73.641
|
33
|
6.7
|
8.4Mw
|
Peru
|
74
|
2,687
|
64
|
B.17,510
|
P.7
4/30/2001
|
2002
0203
|
7:11
|
38.573
|
31.271
|
5
|
5.7
|
6.5Mw
|
Turkey
|
44
|
318
|
|
B.622
|
|
2002
0303
|
12:08
|
36.502
|
70.482
|
226
|
6.6
|
7.4Mw
|
Hindu
Kush Afganistan
|
150
|
several
|
|
B.400
|
P.9
2/8/2002
|
2002
0325
|
14:57
|
36.062
|
69.315
|
8
|
5.9
|
6.1Mw
|
Hindu
Kush Afganistan |
1,000
|
several
|
|
B.1,500
|
|
2002
0622
|
2:58
|
36.626
|
49.047
|
10
|
6.2
|
6.5Mw
|
W Iran
|
261
|
1,300
|
|
|
P.9
4/20,
21/2002
|
2002
1031
|
10:33
|
41.73
|
14.89
|
10
|
5.9
|
|
Italy
|
29
|
some
|
a number
|
|
|
2002
1120
|
21:32
|
35.53
|
74.53
|
33
|
6.4
|
|
Kashmir
|
19
|
40
|
|
B1,256
|
P.12
11/6/2002
|
2003
0122
|
2:06
|
18.84
|
-103.82
|
24
|
7.8
|
|
Mexico
|
29
|
300
|
|
A10,000
|
P.12
12/2/2002
|
2003
0224
|
2:03
|
39.61
|
77.24
|
11
|
6.4
|
|
XinJiang,
China
|
263
|
4,000
|
|
L: 38,259
|
P.13
2/16/2003
|
2003
0501
|
0:27
|
39.0
|
40.44
|
10
|
6.4
|
|
Bingol,
Turkey
|
158
|
520
|
|
B: 82 gone completely
|
P.133/29/2003
|
2003
0521
|
18:44
|
36.88
|
3.73
|
10
|
6.8
|
|
near
Algiers, Algeria
|
1,467
|
7,000
|
|
|
P.13
3/9,4/8/2003
|
2003
0721
|
15:16
|
25.96
|
101.19
|
10
|
6.0
|
|
Yunnan,
China
|
16
|
584
|
$602,000
|
B: 24,000. L: 1,508
|
P.13
4/16/2003
|
2003
0816
|
10:58
|
43.81
|
119.57
|
24
|
5.7
|
|
Nei
Mongol, China
|
2
|
56
|
|
Collapsed:2,602, Damaged:24,483
|
P.14
7/29/2003
|
2003
1025
|
12:41
|
38.35
|
100.96
|
10
|
5.8
|
|
Gansu, China
|
9
|
43
|
|
B:10,000
|
P.15
10/22/2003
|
2003
1222
|
19:15
|
35.71
|
-121.1
|
7
|
6.5
|
|
San
Simeon, California
|
2
|
about 40
|
|
|
P.16
10/5/2003
|
2003
1226
|
1:56
|
28.99
|
58.29
|
10
|
6.8Ms (6.5Mb)
|
|
Bam,
Iran
|
25,000
|
50,000
|
|
|
P.16
12/21/2003 0:00
|
2004
0214
|
10:30, 11:56
|
34.83, 34.81
|
73.26, 73.19
|
10, 10
|
5.5, 5.4
|
|
Batgram, Pakistan
|
20
|
several
|
|
|
P.16
12/15/2003 15:00
|
2004
0224
|
2:27
|
35.22
|
-3.95
|
1
|
6.4
|
|
Morocco
|
226
|
120
|
|
|
P.17
2/14/2004 8:30
|
2004
0528
|
12:38
|
36.28
|
51.57
|
28.3
|
6.3
|
|
Baladeh,
Iran
|
6
|
8
|
|
|
P.17
2/26/2004 8:00
|
2004
0810
|
10:26
|
27.2
|
103.74
|
10
|
5.2 (5.6 China)
|
|
Yunnan,
China
|
4
|
594
|
|
B 10,000
|
P.19
6/19/2004 6:00
|
2004
1023
|
8:56
|
37.2
|
138.81
|
15.8
|
6.9
|
|
Niigata,
Japan
|
23
|
over 2,000
|
|
B 1,400 by *7
|
P.20
7/13/2004 0:00
|
2004
1126
|
2:25
|
-3.58
|
135.3
|
10
|
7.0
|
|
Papua,
Indonesia
|
17
|
130
|
|
B 328
|
P.20
8/18/2004 0:00
|
2004
1226
|
0:58, 4:21
|
3.3, 6.9
|
95.78, 92.95
|
10, 10
|
9.0, 7.3
|
|
Sumatra, Indonesia
Nicobar,
India
|
135,236
|
|
|
|
P.22
12/13/2004 6:00
|
2005
0222
|
2:22
|
30.73
|
56.82
|
10
|
6.4
|
|
Kerman,
Iran
|
400
|
950
|
|
|
P.22
12/15/2004 9:00
|
2005
0328
|
16:09
|
2.06
|
97.01
|
30
|
8.7
|
|
Nias,
Sumatra, Indonesia
|
1,303
|
>340
|
|
B 300
|
P.24
1/6/2005 18:00
|
2005
1008
|
3:50
|
34.43
|
73.54
|
26
|
7.6
|
|
Pakistan
|
47,700 Central (79,000 Local) 9,10
|
41,188 7
|
|
|
P.28
9/28/2005 8:00
|
2005
1126
|
0:49
|
29.69
|
115.68
|
10
|
5.4
|
|
Jiangxi,China
|
14
|
370
|
|
|
P.29
10/22/2005 6:00
|
2006
0331
|
1:17
|
33.5
|
48.78
|
7
|
6.1
|
|
W Iran
|
66
|
1,200
|
|
|
P.29
2/16/2006 19:30
|
2006
0526
|
22:53
|
-7.97
|
110.45
|
10
|
6.3
|
|
Java, Indonesia
|
443
|
2,.800
|
|
|
P.29
2/18/2006 21:00
|
2006
0717
|
8:19
|
-9.22
|
107.32
|
34
|
7.7(7.2 before)
|
|
Java,
Indonesia
|
650 (tsunami)
|
|
100
|
|
P.29
5/17/2006 0:00
|
2006
0722
|
1:10
|
27.97
|
104.07
|
66
|
5.2
|
|
Yunnan,
China
|
19
|
106
|
|
|
P.29
7/12/2006 6:00
|
|

FROM: http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/bulletins.htm
See:
http://www.greatdreams.com/japan_quake_nov_2006.htm
Quakes in this area occur on a daily basis -
|
Dec 8, 2006 9:38 pm US/Pacific
UC Davis: Formula May Predict Earthquakes
Some Experts Are Skeptical
(CBS) DAVIS, Calif. Since 1910, there has
been a magnitude six earthquake in northern California about
every five years, on average. The most recent was in
Parkfield in 2004.But UC Davis Physics Professor John Rundle
believes the period between large quakes has shrunk. "The
chances for having a large earthquake for magnitude six and
above in any three to four year period is very high,” said
Rundle.
Rundle is predicting a large quake in northern California in
less than two years. He bases his prediction on a math
formula he and other researchers developed in 2002 to
forecast the likely locations of major earthquakes. At the
time, they identified several hotspots.
Rundle's team then plotted the significant earthquakes,
shown by blue circles that hit after the original map was
completed. They claim almost all were on the hotspots. But
other scientists say the hotspots are where quakes occur in
California anyway, and the forecast is too vague to be
useful.
"The whole area of northern California coastal ranges is
likely to have an earthquake in our lifetime. Next two
years, it's a small probability. 30 years, we get up to the
20 to 30 percent per fault. So, no, it wouldn't surprise me
at all,” said David Oppenheimer of the USGS.
Oppenheimer is a member of the state's Earthquake Prediction
Evaluation Council. The council evaluated Rundle's quake
forecast method two years ago. The conclusion? Rundle's
results were nothing special. "There was no basis for any
public policy activity because they didn't think the authors
had demonstrated at that time significant results,” said
Oppenheimer.
"We're not actually in the business of trying to warn people
at the moment. What we're trying to do is do the basic
research and basic science that leads up to operational
forecasts and I think we're making progress in that
direction,” said Rundle.
Despite many promising leads the USGS says there is still no
verifiable way of predicting earthquakes.
(© MMVI, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All
Rights Reserved
|
|
12-11-06 Dee, I just read your dreams at greatdreams.com and
to recap -- your two tsunami dreams were in August, 2006 and
11/1/06. I just got out
the newspaper I saved after we had a tsunami in November to look up
the date -- it was November 15, 2006. So hopefully at least the
first tsunami is past.
Our newspaper reporter researched tsunamis and there have been a lot
of them -- not just the one in 1964 that was 15 feet high and killed
11 people that went out of their houses to start cleaning up after
the first wave.
The worst one was in 1700 and washed over the Sierra Nevada
mountains
and created the Great Salt Lake in Utah probably. But there were two
in the 1940s, three in the 1950s, six in the 1960s, two in the
1970s,
one in the 1980s, and two in the 1990s (both after quakes at
Mendocino.)
The tsunami on November 15, 2006 was about 5 feet high and destroyed
1000 feet of docks and 35 boat slips. It was caused by a magnitude
8.1 to 8.3 earthquake off the shore of the Kuril Islands near
Alaska.
The tsunami siren was not sounded this time. One investigation
showed that the reason for that was that the warning was called to
the wrong county headquarters. But in my personal observation --
there was a tsunami warning siren after an offshore earthquake last
year in 2005 (your blue notebook in the August dream) and people
panicked and drove crazy and got into a few accidents. They didn't
know where to go and some went a lot further up the mountains -- not
just to the fairgrounds or middle school to slightly higher ground.
And the mountains have people hemmed in so that you can't really get
to higher ground very easily except on narrow two-lane roads with
hairpin turns around and around the mountain.
So now they printed the instructions -- to walk to higher ground and
don't cause traffic jams that keep emergency vehicles from getting
through. But when have you ever seen an American walk when they
could
take their car?
This is a small town of 5,000 people and the panic here almost
caused
a lot of car accidents. People were driving past our house honking
their horns furiously, squealing their brakes, and shouting at each
other. We stayed put because we live on higher ground already --
though not high enough for a 60 foot wave. That was summer and good
weather. It rained for 37 days -- including the entire month of
November and the day of the tsunami on November 15th so the
evacuation, if it had occurred, would have been even worse than in
summer on slick rain-wet roads and people would have been in winter
coats like your dream of August 2006.
Steve and I went out when it stopped raining for a bit and people
were in shock even a couple of days after the tsunami. Even public
officials like some of the bus drivers were in shock and wandering
around with vacant looks on their faces.
I dreamed about a tsunami washing Steve and me all the way back to
the mountains before we moved here on September 9, 1976. We floated
on the wave. But the water was warm and turquoise in color and the
sand white like in Florida or Indonesia for that matter.
Sheila
NOTE: It was said on the radio that the people who got
the tsunami warning actually drove to the beach to watch it come in.
IDIOTS!!!
| Powerful quake strikes off Taiwan
Story Published: Dec 26, 2006 at 7:03 AM PST
By Associated Press
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - A powerful earthquake struck off
southwestern Taiwan on Tuesday, briefly prompting fears of a
tsunami on the second anniversary of the quake and deadly
waves that killed thousands in south Asia.
Taiwanese media reported one person died and three were
injured when their home collapsed in the southern city of
Pintung. Other reports said city streets had cracked and a
major bridge was damaged. They said fires were burning out
in the area, apparently caused by downed power cables.
The quake was felt throughout Taiwan. The U.S. Geological
Survey estimated its magnitude at 7.1, while Taiwan's
Central Weather Bureau measured it at 6.7. It was followed
eight minutes later by 7.0 magnitude aftershock, the USGS
said.
Two hours later, an official at Japan's Meteorological
Agency said there was no longer any danger of a destructive
tsunami headed for the Philippines, as had been predicted.
"The danger has passed," said Hiroshi Koide of the agency's
earthquake section. "We predicted tsunami based on the depth
and magnitude of the earthquake. But ultimately, it appears
no large tsunami were triggered."
Phone lines were cut in the southern cities of Kaohsiung
and Pingtung, possibly hindering reports of damage by
residents, the CTI Cable News reported. Several high-rise
hotels swayed violently in Kaohsiung, it said.
Liao Ching-ling, a 30-year-old manager at Kaohsiung's
Ambassador Hotel, said she had never before felt such a
strong quake: "The building swayed so badly that many
panicky guests ran out of their rooms and into the streets."
The initial tremor was centered at sea about 13 miles
southwest of Hengchun on the southern tip of Taiwan, the
bureau said. Hengchun is about 260 miles south of Taipei.
Quakes frequently shake Taiwan, which is part of the
Pacific's "Ring of Fire," an arc of volcanos and fault lines
encircling the Pacific Basin. Most are minor and cause
little or no damage, but a 7.6-magnitude earthquake in
central Taiwan in September 1999 killed more than 2,300
people.
A 9.1-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Indonesia on
Dec. 26, 2004 caused a tsunami that killed at least 230,000
people in 11 countries. Those waves reached as high as 33
feet.
~~~~~
TAIPEI - A powerful earthquake struck off southwestern Taiwan on
Tuesday, triggering a tsunami warning on the second anniversary of
the waves that killed more than 200,000 in southern Asia.
Two hours later, seismologists lifted the warning, saying the
threat of destructive waves had passed.
Taiwanese media reported one person was killed and three
injured in the southern city of Pingtung when their four-story home
collapsed. Three other members of the family were trapped in the
rubble and firefighters were working to free them, the reports said.
One member of the family - an 89-year old man - escaped from
the building unharmed. Initial reports said all the people in the
collapsed building had been freed, but these turned out to be
unfounded.
Elsewhere in Pingtung, 20 other people were injured, media
reports said.
They added that many streets in the city were cracked and a
major bridge was damaged. Several fires broke out in the area,
apparently caused by downed electric power cables.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake, which hit at 8:26 p.m.
(1226 GMT), registered magnitude 7.1, while Taiwan's Central Weather
Bureau measured it at 6.7. It was followed eight minutes later by an
aftershock registering 7.0, the USGS said.
Japan's Meteorological Bureau said a one-meter (3.3-foot) tsunami
might be headed toward the eastern coast of the Philippines, but
later lifted the warning."The expected waves did not materialize ...
the danger has passed," said Hiroshi Koide of the agency's
earthquake section. "We predicted a tsunami based on the depth and
magnitude of the earthquake. But ultimately, it appears no large
tsunami was triggered."
According to China Seismological Bureau, two earthquakes --
the first measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale and the second
measuring 6.7 -- hit the South China Sea on Tuesday. The epicenter
was located at 21.9 degrees north latitude and 120.6 degrees east
longitude, about 350 kilometers from the Chinese mainland and 15
kilometers from Taiwan.
Philippine police said coastal areas had been alerted.
The warning underscored the higher level of caution about
tsunami waves in the region since a massive earthquake off Indonesia
exactly two years earlier triggered a powerful tsunami in the Indian
Ocean that killed 230,000 people in a dozen countries.
Tuesday's quake was felt throughout Taiwan. It swayed buildings and
knocked objects off the shelves in the city of Taipei, in the
northern part of the island. Phone lines were cut in the southern
cities of Kaohsiung and Pingtung, possibly hindering reports of
damage by residents, the CTI Cable News reported. Several high-rise
hotels swayed violently in Kaohsiung, it said.Liao Ching-ling, a
manager at Kaohsiung's Ambassador Hotel, said the quake was the
strongest she had ever felt.
"The building swayed so badly that many guests panicked and
ran out of their rooms and into the streets," she said.
The tremor was centered at sea about 23 kilometers (13 miles)
southwest of Hengchun on the southern tip of Taiwan, the bureau
said. Hengchun is about 450 kilometers (260 miles) south of
Taipei.Quakes frequently shake Taiwan, which is part of the
Pacific's "Ring of Fire," an arc of volcanos and fault lines
encircling the Pacific Basin. Most are minor and cause little or no
damage. However, a 7.6-magnitude earthquake in central Taiwan in
September 1999 killed more than 2,300 people.
Thousands of people in residents along Japan's eastern coast
fled to higher ground after an 8.2 magnitude earthquake
triggered tsunami warnings Saturday in parts of the Pacific
region, including Hawaii and Alaska.
The warnings rattled coastal residents more than two
years after giant waves spawned by an Indian Ocean earthquake
killed at least 230,000.
But the largest wave reported by late Saturday was a
16-inch tidal surge along the shores of Chichi-jima, a Pacific
island 620 miles south of Tokyo, more than three hours after
the quake.
Earlier, a tidal swell of about 4 inches was recorded
in Japan's northeastern coastal town of Nemuro, and a higher
tide also was observed in other coastal towns, including
Kushiro, Abashiri and Otaru, Japan's Meteorological Agency
said.
The quake struck around 1:24 p.m. local time about
310 miles east of Etorofu, the largest of a disputed
four-island chain known as the Northern Territories in Japan
and the Kuril islands in Russia.
The Japanese agency initially estimated the magnitude
as 8.3 but later reduced that to 8.2, the same strength
recorded by the U. S. Geological Survey. The quake struck 19
miles below the seabed, the agency said.
There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage
from the quake, but the agency warned that higher than usual
waves could hit the northeastern coast of Japan's main island
of Hokkaido.
Hokkaido officials responded by issuing evacuation
orders to 85,000 people in 22 coastal towns.
Disaster prevention official Haruyuki Komachi said
thousands of people heeded the orders and gathered at
community centers. Police closed off roads to the coast and
train operators suspended some services as a precaution.
The warnings were later downgraded to advisories,
then canceled them altogether on the northwestern coast of
Hokkaido, leading some municipalities to lift evacuation
orders. Advisories in other parts of Hokkaido and towns facing
the Pacific coast were still in effect late Saturday.
"The tidal change so far seems rather small, but a
bigger one may come hours later," Komachi said. "So we have to
stay vigilant into the night in case a second or a third ones
come in bigger waves."
A tsunami warning also was issued for Alaska's
western Aleutian islands, and a tsunami watch was issued for
Hawaii. Both were later canceled, but not before dozens of
people sought refuge in underground shelters on two Aleutian
islands.
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and
Seismology advised residents along that nation's eastern
seaboard to observe changes in the sea level. About 4,000
people in the northern province of Isabela were evacuated.
Tsunami warnings are issued due to the imminent
threat of a tsunami. Tsunami watches are issued as an advance
alert to areas that could be impacted by a tsunami.
Temblors of magnitude 7 are generally classified as
major earthquakes, capable of widespread, heavy damage.
The Japanese meteorological agency also issued
warnings last November following a magnitude 7.9 quake in a
similar area, but most areas saw waves of only about 7.8
inches.
Seismologists, however, warned that this time the
quake was stronger and cautioned residents to remain vigilant.
Tokyo University seismologist Yoshinobu Tsuji warned
that high waves may still hit the region, hours after a
tsunami warning. "I urge everyone to stay alert," he said.
December 26, 2004, a magnitude-9.0 earthquake off
Indonesia's Sumatra island unleashed giant waves that fanned
out across the Indian Ocean at jetliner speeds, leaving at
least 230,000 dead and millions of homeless in its wake.
Tsunami warning for Hawaii and Alaska
The Courier Mail, Brisbane
From correspondents in Honolulu
January 13, 2007 04:18pm
Article from: Agence France-Presse
THE Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre issued a tsunami watch for Hawaii
and Alaska's western Aleutian islands after a 8.3-magnitude
earthquake in the northern Pacific.
The centre said today the waves could reach Hawaii's shores just
after midnight local time (9pm AEDT). It was expected to hit
Alaska's Dutch Harbor about an hour earlier (8pm AEDT).
The West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Centre said it was not
immediately known if a tsunami was generated.
Japan's Meteorological Agency issued tsunami warnings following the
quake. The agency said waves as high as 1 metre could hit the
northeastern coast of Japan's northern island of Hokkaido.
Officials in towns along Japan's Pacific coast issued evacuation
orders to flee to higher ground.
The United States issued a tsunami warning for Russia, Japan and
Markus Island in the Pacific Ocean following the quake.
The quake struck about 500km east of the Etorofu islands between
northern Japan and Russia, the agency said.
There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage from the
quake.
Tsunami waves - generated by earthquakes - are often barely
noticeable in the ocean but can rise to great heights once they
arrive at shore.
The Tsunami
Warning and Watch are canceled for British Columbia and Alaska.
A tsunami has been observed at the following sites:
Hanasaki Japan 0.1m/0.3ft
Kushiro Japan 0.1 m/0.3ft
Ofunato Japan 0.06m/0.2 ft
Kamaishi Japan 0.07m/0.2ft
Miyako Japan 0.08m/ 0.26ft
Shemya Alaska .32m/1.0 ft
Wave observations are the amplitude above sea level.
No destructive tsunami threat exists
for Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and California. However,
some areas may experience observable effects which could include strong
currents in harbors and bays dangerous to those in or near the water.
These effects are expected to begin at approximately 0440AM PST in the
Pacific Northwest ranging to 0600AM PST in southern California and could
continue for several hours after initial arrival. As local conditions can
cause a wide variation in tsunami wave activity, the all clear
determinations must be made by local authorities. At 8:24 PM Pacific
Standard Time on January 12, an
earthquake
with preliminary magnitude 8.2
occurred east of the Kuril
Islands, Russia.
The
Pacific Tsunami Warning Center
in Ewa Beach, Hawaii will issue a final tsunami message for Hawaii and
other areas of the Pacific outside California, Oregon, Washington, British
Columbia and Alaska. This will be the last West Coast/Alaska Tsunami
Warning Center message issued for this event.
To repeat, NO tsunami watch or warning is in effect for
the U.S. West coast states, Alaska, and British Columbia. See the
WCATWC
web site for basic
tsunami information,
safety rules,
and a
tsunami travel time map
and
table.
(NOTE: Travel time maps and tables indicate predicted
times only, not that a wave was generated.)
Japan Quake Leaves 1 Dead, 170 Injured

By SHIZUO KANBAYASHI
AP
KANAZAWA, Japan (March 25) - A powerful earthquake struck
central Japan on Sunday, killing at least one person and
injuring 170 others as it toppled buildings, triggered
landslides and generated a small tsunami along the coast.
The quake was followed throughout the day by aftershocks.
The magnitude-6.9 quake struck at 9:42 a.m. off the north
coast of Ishikawa, Japan's Meteorological Agency said. The
agency issued a tsunami warning urging people near the sea
to move to higher land.
A small tsunami measuring 6 inches hit the shore 36 minutes
later, the agency said.
The morning quake toppled buildings, triggered landslides,
cut power, interfered with phone service, broke water mains
and snarled public transportation. At least one person was
killed and 170 others were hurt along the country's Sea of
Japan coast, according to the Fire and Disaster Management
Agency.
Television footage of the quake showed buildings shaking
violently for about 30 seconds. Other shots showed collapsed
buildings and shops with shattered windows, streets
cluttered with roof tiles and roads with cracked pavement.
"We felt violent shaking. My colleagues say the insides of
their houses are a mess, with everything smashed on the
floor," Wataru Matsumoto, deputy mayor of the town of
Anamizu, near the epicenter, told NHK.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa Shiozaki confirmed the
death of a 52-year-old woman. NHK said she was crushed by a
falling stone lantern.
"We are doing our best to rescue the victims," he said. "We
are also doing our best to assess the extent of the damage."
The quake knocked down at least 39 homes in Ishikawa and
damaged another 143, the FDMA said. Most of the injuries and
damage were concentrated in the city of Wajima, it added,
about 193 miles northwest of Tokyo.
Takeshi Hachimine, seismology and tsunami section chief at
the Meteorological Agency, said the affected area was not
considered earthquake-prone. The last major quake to cause
casualties there was in 1933, when three people died.
"After the powerful earthquake, aftershocks will continue,"
Hachimine said.
Japan sits atop four tectonic plates and is one of the
world's most earthquake-prone countries. The last major
quake to hit the capital, Tokyo, killed some 142,000 people
in 1923, and experts say the capital has a 90 percent chance
of suffering a major quake in the next 50 years.
In October 2004, a magnitude-6.8 earthquake hit northern
Japan, killing 40 people and damaging more than 6,000 homes.
It was the deadliest to hit Japan since 1995, when a
magnitude-7.2 quake killed 6,433 people in the western city
of Kobe.
Powerful quakes in 1703, 1782, 1812 and 1855 also caused
vast damage in the capital.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the epicenter of
Sunday's quake was 225 miles northwest of Tokyo. The USGS
measured its magnitude at 6.7.
Associated Press writers Hans Greimel, Carl Freire and
Mari Yamaguchi contributed to this story.
Strong earthquake strikes Japan
A strong earthquake rocked
Japan on Sunday, killing at least one person
and injuring 150 others. The quake caused
serious damage to many buildings and triggered a
small
tsunami along the coast, officials and media
reports said.
The
magnitude-6.9 quake struck at
9:42 a.m. (0042 GMT) off the
north coast of Ishikawa
prefecture (state), Japan's
Meteorological Agency said. The
agency issued a tsunami warning
urging people near the sea to
move to higher land.
A small
tsunami measuring 10 centimeters
(6 inches) hit the shore 36
minutes later, the agency said.
The warning was lifted after
about an hour.
The quake
toppled buildings, triggered
landslides, cut power,
interfered with phone service,
broke water mains and snarled
public transportation. At
least one person was killed and
150 others were hurt along the
country's Sea of Japan coast,
media reports said.
Fear of
aftershocks and more landslides
caused by the loosening of soil
waterlogged by overnight rains
continued to plague the quake
zone.
Television
footage of the quake showed
buildings shaking violently for
about 30 seconds. Other shots
showed collapsed buildings and
shops with shattered windows,
streets cluttered with roof
tiles and roads with cracked
pavement.
In Ishikawa,
at least 24 people were injured,
six severely, according to
prefectural official Kosaku
Ueno. In neighboring Toyama, at
least two people were injured,
fire official Nobuyuki Shima
said.
Many of the
injured people suffered burns or
were hurt by falling objects and
broken glass, media reports
said.
Chief Cabinet
Secretary Yasuhisa Shiozaki
confirmed the death of a
52-year-old woman. Public
broadcaster NHK said she was
crushed by a falling stone
lantern.
"We are doing
our best to rescue the victims,"
he said. "We are also doing our
best to assess the extent of the
damage."
Kyodo
News agency reported about
30 soldiers had arrived to help
with disaster relief, and
military aircraft were examining
the damage.
Takeshi
Hachimine, seismology and
tsunami section chief at the
Meteorological Agency, said the
affected area was not considered
earthquake-prone. The last major
quake to cause casualties there
was in 1933, when three people
died.
He warned of
likely aftershocks.
"After the
powerful earthquake, aftershocks
will continue," Hachimine said.
"All residents, especially those
who are near the hardest-hit
areas, are advised to use extra
caution. Aftershocks could
further damage what's already
fragile."
Train service
in Ishikawa and nearby Toyama
prefecture was suspended and All
Nippon Airways flights between
Ishikawa and
Tokyo were delayed, Kyodo
said.
Nuclear power
plants owned by Tokyo Electric
Power Co. and Kansai Electric
Power Co. were operating
normally in Niigata and Fukui
prefectures, Kyodo said.
Hokuriku
Electric Power Co. said at least
340 households in the area were
without electrical power.
Japan sits
atop four tectonic plates and is
one of the world's most
earthquake-prone countries. The
last major quake to hit the
capital, Tokyo, killed some
142,000 people in 1923, and
experts say the capital has a 90
percent chance of suffering a
major quake in the next 50
years, the AP said.
In October
2004, a magnitude-6.8 earthquake
hit northern Japan, killing 40
people and damaging more than
6,000 homes. It was the
deadliest to hit Japan since
1995, when a magnitude-7.2 quake
killed 6,433 people in the
western city of Kobe.
Powerful
quakes in 1703, 1782, 1812 and
1855 also caused vast damage in
the capital.
Japan's
Meteorological Agency assigned
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