http://tucsoncitizen.com/wryheat/2011/05/19/local-atmospheric-changes-may-foretell-large-earthquakes/ by Jonathan DuHamel Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://tucsoncitizen.com/wryheat/2011/05/19/local-atmospheric-changes-may-foretell-large-earthquakes/comment-page-1/#comment-8539 Brookside Institute Fri, 20 May 2011 19:34:07 +0000 http://tucsoncitizen.com/wryheat/?p=714#comment-8539 According to the of a study undertaken by American and Russian scientists the atmosphere directly above the fault zone from which Japans devastating 9.0 magnitude earthquake emanated in March heated up substantially in the days leading up to the quake and saw a rapid increase of emitted infrared radiation on March 8 three days before the earthquake struck. The thinking is that in the days before an earthquake the great stresses in a fault as it is about to give cause the releases large amounts of radon..The radioactivity from this gas ionises the air on a large scale and this has a number of knock on effects. But the process of condensation also releases heat and it is this that causes infrared emissions..Even if the research teams preliminary numbers holds up a big question remains Will similar data be useful in predicting future earthquakes before they happen potentially minimizing the loss of human life?

]]>