EARTHQUAKE CLOUDS AND
SHORT TERM PREDICTION

A Human Tragedy (response about the Haiti tragedy)

- January 28, 2010 -

Response to the webmaster of Dundee Univ. about the Haiti shock

Hello,

Thank you for concerning my health. I have gotten better after chemotherapy, but Mantle Cell Lymphoma has no way to cure completely.

I have investigated all earthquakes of magnitude 7 and above in 2003 and 2004, and found all their clouds. No exception, have I found the Haiti cloud, too.

I agree that the Haiti devastation is a tragedy, but a little likely a human tragedy. On 8 April 2005, an officer____ of UN OCHA, requested me to offer him predictions to prevent UN workers in the Indonesia tsunami countries. I gave him seven predictions all correctly. I also gave him article “Bam Earthquake Prediction & Space Technology” (Bam Paper), published by the UN (1). He claimed to read it carefully on 13 April. However, he claimed, “After reading quite a few articles on the web about earthquake prediction, I found out that it is commonly admitted that prediction is impossible” to reject my request to solve satellite data problems, described in the article, on 26 October.

In the Bam Paper, I show two facts for the reliability of my theory in practice. One is my Bam prediction. The M6.8 Bam, Iran earthquake announced my success by the only one in my predicted magnitude and location in history. The other is my 50 independent predictions, verified by the USGS.  Supposing data of the USGS without error and an earthquake at a point without radius (called American "Peer on"), 34 predictions are all correct in time, area and magnitude. Even if blaming all 16 misses on the vapor precursor theory, Monte Carlo simulation shows that a random guesser has a probability of 1 in 5,000 to be as successful as or more successful than the same set of earthquakes, although all the 16 misses were in fact due to problems of satellite data, earthquake data, and Shou’s experience as a pioneer (1, 2). The Brelsford–Jones’s score method gives a probability of 1 in 16,000. Namely, my predictions are on statistic significance and without false warning. Therefore, I wonder about why this officer of UN believes in neither the two facts, nor UN’s yearbook, but “a few articles on the web.

On 24-26 April 2006, I appealed governments to use 0.01% of their budgets on prediction to solve satellite data problems and earthquake data problems to save people while introducing my work to scientists in Beijing three times. I also published this appeal later (3). I also introduced the Bam Paper to the director of the Chinese Seismological Bureau (CSB) and requested him to solve those data problems. However, he ignored. I also wrote the U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, but my letter was returned due to “wrong address”. Thus, I, myself, went to the UN in New York to deliver, but the doormen neither let me enter, nor delivered my letter.

In the USA, Dr. Alan Jones, referee of Seismological Research Letter of the USGS, put his “Review” out to attack me in front of many witnesses, but became speechless after my defense (4).  Three doctors urged Dr. ____, editor in chief, to publish my paper. She claimed, “I am not longer the editor of the journal” on 8 September 2007. However, when she requested my permit to reprint my Northridge earthquake cloud photograph in her book, she might forget her claim and was going to do such a ‘fair’ introduction: “The familiar question of whether Shou’s predictions have done better than random chance”.

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There were too many such authorities to save people with my theory. On the other hand, the authorities have spent billion dollars a year budgets without a reliable prediction. For instance, a team of NASA’s JPL and the USGS predicted a major quake in Los Angeles by geodetic with most modern technology to the Public on 3 August 1999. After getting three key words (bold, brown above), I predicted its failure in one second. To reply panic people, I predicted the next major quake in one of two hot places, including Landers by essay “California Earthquake Situation Analysis” in my web site on 10 August (5). Although the Los Angeles prediction cost multimillion dollars, the M7.0 Hector Mine Earthquake proclaimed my success by exactly in a hot place near Landers on 16 October. Those wasted money should have been enough to solve the satellite data problems.

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After a long observation, I found an earthquake of magnitude 7 or above in Sichuan near the arrowed place of the satellite image on 18 January 2007, attached (6). I was monitoring when the cloud would erupt to predict the time until early April 2008 when I got serious stomachache and lost weight of 11.4 kg (Doctors told me that was cancer in September). On 12 May, the M8 Sichuan earthquake killed 87587 people and caused a loss of $86 billion, surprisingly at my estimated place. If OCHA, USGS or CSB had given me an assistant to continue my monitor, this tragedy would have reduced. In addition, I got a 3-day delay to download images of the Bam cloud due to an Internet problem. If I had gotten a tiny support to prevent the link of my computer to the Internet from blocking, many victims might have gotten enough time from my Bam prediction to survive.

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After the Sichuan earthquake, the CSB predicted an M6-7 aftershock on 19-20 May, but failed. Many people requested me for prediction. In spite of sick, I predicted two large earthquakes to them and the both predictions were all correct. However, our web site was blocked in China soon. We set up a new web site, but it was blocked in China, too. Meanwhile, Chinese medium widely spread impossible to predict earthquakes.

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On 1 June 2009, the Air France crash caught my attention. Unable to solve social problems, did I change my work and write a draft to explain the cause of this crash. Encouraged by Prof. Giles Foody, editor-in-chief of International Journal of Remote Sensing and Remote Sensing Letters, I and my coauthors submitted a manuscript: “Using the earthquake vapour theory to explain the French airbus crash” where we acknowledge both Dundee Univ. and you. Lacking time due to disease, I finished the rebuttal and the revision in hospital. This paper has been accepted and will be published by Remote Sensing Letters soon. I also wrote a comment to Nature to explain problems of its news report of “Tsunami watch” on 23 December 2009 (7), and the moderator claims that Nature will not hide it.

After the Indonesia tragedy, the Sichuan tragedy happened. After the Sichuan tragedy, the Haiti tragedy happened. OCHA and governments have aided the victims from Indonesia to China, and then from China to Haiti. It should be a human tragedy because officers would rather aid victims after a tragedy than to solve the data problems with much less money to save their lives before a tragedy.

I deeply sympathize with Haiti victims and hope to end such tragedy. Therefore, I hope to know whether or not you or somebody you know who own power to solve the satellite data problems and the earthquake data problems. 

Sincerely,

Zhonghao

 

References

  1. Darrell Harrington & Zhonghao Shou. Bam Prediction & Space Technology Seminars of the United Nations Programme on Space Applications 16 39-63 (2005).
  2. Zhonghao Shou. Earthquake Vapor, a reliable precursor Earthquake Prediction21-51. (ed. Mukherjee Saumitra. Brill Academic Publisher, Leiden-Boston, 2006).
  3. Zhonghao Shou. Precursor of the Largest Earthquake in the Last Forty Years New Concepts in Global Tectonics 41 6-15 (2006).
  4. Zhonghao Shou. Alan Jones' "Fair Review" 21 August 2007
  5. Zhonghao Shou. California Earthquake Situation Analysis 10 August 1999
  6. M8 precursor on January 18, 2007
  7. Zhonghao Shou. Comment for "Tsunami watch" Nature 23 December 2009. 23 January 2010

 

 

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