--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote: > > Are conflicts in the Middle East > and disasters in Japan preventable? > > Technologies of the ancient Vedic science of consciousness > can reduce violence in society, imbalances in nature > > As predicted nearly 5 years ago, a large group of meditation experts in Iowa > produces dramatic fall in US violent crime rates, number of destructive > hurricanes >
"I invite all well-wishers of peace to fully investigate the scientific principles and the research which underlie these technologies and then, if your questions are answered, to partner with us in promoting a world of permanent peace." Dr. John Hagelin > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > Earthquakes are interesting. There is very little that shakes your > > belief in Reality As You Know It as everything shaking under your feet. > > The very term "terra firma" comes into question. > > > > I've been in a few. The biggest was in Agadir, Morocco in 1960. Years > > later, working in a tall office building in downtown L.A., I experienced > > another one. It rattled windows and we could feel the whole building > > swaying, but it passed without damage, and we all stood around for a few > > minutes talking about it, and pretending that we hadn't just seen our > > lives flash before our eyes. :-) > > > > Talk gravitated to the other 'quakes we'd experienced. One of the > > programmers I'd been working on the same floor as for some time > > mentioned Agadir, and I was surprised so I took him aside and followed > > up on it. Turns out he was originally Moroccan, forced to leave in the > > Jewish diaspora several years later, and now living and working in the > > US. As we chatted, we realized in a moment of mutual shock that many, > > many years earlier we had sat in the same room together. It was during a > > showing of the film "Exodus" on the Air Force base my parents lived at. > > A lot of Jewish residents of nearby Marrakesh had gotten permission to > > visit the base so that they could see the movie, which was naturally > > banned from local theaters. So it turned out that this fellow and I had > > been sitting in the same movie theater. Go figure. > > > > When I moved from California to New York, one of the things in the back > > of my mind was, "Well, at least I won't have to worry about earthquakes > > any more." So what happens during my first week of work on the 40th > > floor of a NY office building? An earthquake. We were later told that > > the building was measured swaying four feet back and forth; I can > > certainly assure you that this is exactly what it felt like, from the > > 40th floor. :-) > > > > The thing is, the earthquake itself was in Nova Scotia. As was explained > > on the News in the days that followed, the East coast of the US is even > > more susceptible to damage from a major earthquake than the West coast > > is. The basic infrastructure of West coast, because of the constant > > grinding against each other of the tectonic plates, is more fractured. > > The waves of an earthquake thus don't tend to travel very far, the > > energy being dissipated to some extent in the fractured ground. But on > > the East coast, the ground is more solid, so the effects of a large > > earthquake can travel much further -- hundreds of miles. So Washington, > > D.C. was lucky. This one seems to have been localized, and in an area > > that confined its effects to a small area. In Agadir, a 'quake one point > > lower than this one on the Richter scale destroyed a third of the city. > > > > And just to give our California dwellers pause, the Richter scale is not > > the only measure. It is logarithmic, and thus illusory -- a 6.8 is 100 > > times more powerful than a 5.8, and a 7.8 is 1000 times more powerful. > > But earthquakes, where this can be measured, are also rated by the > > distance that the fault line itself has shifted. For example, during the > > San Francisco quake that burned down major portions of the city, the > > fault line in question only shifted a few inches. > > > > When contemplating what the term "The Big One" could potentially mean > > for California, bear in mind that they are predictable. They occur in > > 150 to 200 year cycles. The last one was back during the Civil War. > > During that one, the entire San Andreas fault line shifted something > > like eight feet. According to historical records, it knocked almost > > every existing building in California off its foundation. > > > > Weird facts like this make me happy that I live in the Netherlands > > rather than California. We're pretty earthquake-free here. And it's not > > as if a nation that is largely below sea level has anything to fear from > > climate change and rising ocean levels. :-) > > >
