Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000100120013-0 EARTHQUAKES: THE SOLAR CONNECTION BY PATRICK HUYGHE ‘A maverick scientist is shaking up quake predictors by suggesting that solar flares trigger scismic activity. note: Much to the consternation of her colleagues, California scientist believes the sun may trigger such diverse ies as earthquakes, human illness and arson, Officials charged with earthyuake prediction have encouraged her even a5 i eo oF is she just another overcager soul who has misinterpreted ier data tof her pet theory? Here ls her story. After you have ted iy dle mhethr you lieve al, pats or mone of fe chick hearts factors in the geophysical environment t ing the final nudge that upsets the balance Once the study was completed, Adams cosmie radiation, several measures of geo {of frictional forces locking the edges of prepared to present her results to the magnetic and solar activity and a number ij the plates together American Heart Association, but just a of standard weather variables such as 4 Biologist Marsha Adams, 38, thinks few weeks belore she was to do 80, her baromietrie pressure, temperature and rel se may have found that key 9% milion results reversed themselves. Instead of ative humidity. She found that the bleed. {niles away from the Earth in the hot, tar- stimulation, the embryo chick hearts be- ing anomalies occurred following periods huulent atmosphere ofthe sun. Moreover, gan exhibiting depression, Assuming the of increased solar activity and preceding {Adams who is at SRI International. experimental scup was at fait, Adams largesmagnitude carting. i nonprofit Catifrnia tink tnk, Bas data dismantled the entire system and/changed "The cieal staat the Women's Com HF shay inte tat ceriin poop can the latin cles, the stock ofa. monty Cine San Jose where Ads somehow sense the forces thai trigger tions and the ait tanks. No matter what was then research director, wasn’t sur- ceuthquakes before they occur she did, she couldn't replicate her results, prised, she says, “They said they could a “I didn't start out as a sun freak,” says Soon after, though, lor no apparent have tokl me that because everything woe ¥ Adams candidly. “But P've come to real- reason, the experiment began 10 work haywire around there a few days hefove tue that almost all variations that occur in. again. Although they watched several of an earthquake. People in the recovery biological and physical processes may be these reversals, neither she nor hice super room showed an increase in emotional the result of fluctuations in solar activity. visor could explain what was happening disturbances and there was an increase in have to think very hard to come up with Having taken into account humidity, the number of people vomiting and react- one that isn't T suspect that geophysical temperature and all the other factors that ing to anesthetics. They didn't have 10 biologists usually control in their experi- Took at the data to tell when an earth~ quake was coming. Wien 1 challenged Biotogise Marsha Adams, sven standing on thei to prediet the next earthquake, they ‘he San Andreas Fault, links solar flares sid, and the bleeding data showed the ex- op) to health problems as wellas quakes. was profoundly iaflucneing biological pected anomalies. soar Wy Ropes Rea a ie Haga cy of NASA a Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000100120013-0Aware of the fact that certain animals seem: to act strangely just prior to ear quakes, Adams formalized a study that | used truman subjects 40 forecast them, She had moved to her present position at SRI International, and her only contact | with most of the 25 people who are now telephone. She has taken great pains, in the interest of scientific abjectivty, for them not to know one another. “Most of | them contacted me because they had themselves recognized that their flu-like symptoms seemed to precede carth: uakes,” says Adams. “Many of those who called would tell me the same story One said: “You are my last hope before seeing « psychiatrist.’ Another said: “I fel really weird about this, but you've heard about those | Chinese studies. with sponding to earthquakes, haven't you? Well, think maybe that happens with people, 00." They would then 0 on 10 describe the symptoms they felt before an earthquake, none of which their physicians could tie to specific ilnesses.” Twice each day, the 25 “re sponsives"” who reliably exhibit Physiological sensations prior to a ‘quake fill outa chart, noting the pres: ‘ice or absence of such symptoms as fax tigue, vertigo, chils,hcadiches, nausea, a ringing in the ears ora flushed sensation, ‘The form also provides spaces for depres sion and fights with a spouse or work: mates, ‘Once the symptoms reach 2 peak of in- tensity, the responsives call in on Adams's hot line and give name, date, time of day, the symptom and its strength. This has allowed her to establish a track record for each person that tells her how accurate he or she i with regard to large- oF small-maguitude quakes, 10 local versus distant quakes and (othe tin ing of the event. One person, she reports, has only called in four times, but he h ‘been 100 percent on the mark for e quakes over magnitude 7 on the Richter scale (8.5 is “devastating”). As a team, tthe responsives have been accurate be tween 70 and 80 percent of the time, } though Adams has made no attempt t0 forecast all of the more than 36 earth ‘quakes of a magnitude 6,5 or greater that Patrick Hugh, who writes forthe New York ‘Times and sience magosner worldwide, met with biologist Marsha Adams i San Francisca ‘occur around the world exch year, The forecasts she has made are recorded on a Burroughs computer at SRI that time- stamps each entry, they. " says Adams. “It's awesome to watch the system work, especially when twelve of the twenty-five people who hhaven’t contacted you for weeks call within a ewenty-four-hour period.” ‘She believes that whatever force is trig agering these human somatic sensations i probably also responsible for triggering earthquakes and for the wellsdocumented strange behavior of animals preceding those upheavals. Her data suggest that the agent responsible for this and other assorted mischief is an increase in solar activity February of this year. “She's be on target,” says Casper. “When Adams forecasts, the arsonist hits within 72 hours. She's got it down.” Solar flares, which Adanis thinks are the erucial factor in this catalog of dsas ters, are the most spectacular and power ful of all forms of solar activity. These mammoth tongue-shaped protuberaices slisplay temperatures in excess of 20 sil lion degrees Kelvin and release the energy equivalent of 10 t0 100 billion I-megaton H-bombs, enough power to supply the United States for thousands of years, Flares usually appear in stop with the sun-spot cycle, which reaches @ maxi ‘mum every 11” years. At times of solar ‘maximum, when the greatest number af spots appear on the stun, a many as two or three small ares may ap- pear every hour, and one iormous flare may a pear each month. But times of solar mini wom, weeks may Pass without any significant flares. Erupting flares. unas a tidal wave ‘An erupting solar flare sends shock waves rippling through the solar wind and pumps Sirearas of high-energy particles (two horizontal lines) outward. These collide withthe Earth’s magnetosphere (shaded arca), causing magnetic storms that may affect health ‘The list of factors Adams claims may be influenced by increases in solar netivity is a long one and, unbelievable as it may sound, includes not oaly earthquakes and periodic human illness but also freak weather conditions, arson, rots, political instability and erime waves. In fact, Ad= ams points out, the Falkland Islands were invaded soon after an increase in solar ac- livty. Railroad derailments and secidents involving airplanes, buses and ships ap- ‘pear on the list as well. All these events {end to occur in specific time slots within about a week of inereases in Solar activity Humans normally begin to react within the first few days after a flare, and the earthquakes in about four days. ‘Adanis has already provided several fire forecasts for Andrew Casper, chief of the San Prancisco fire department, who lags boen on the track of an arsonist re= spousible for more than 30 fires ‘of radiation, electrical and magnetic fields and high-energy particles into space, part ‘of which enhance what is known as the wind. When this solar debris smacks into the Earth's magnetic field, o magne tosphere, a wide vatiety of terrestrial of: fects oecur: aurora borealis, geomagnetic storms, electrical surges in power lines and even in the ground itself, During one such outburst in 1859, telegraph opera tots found that they could transinit and receive messages without batteries, “What has not been appreciated.” notes Adams, “is just how much biol cal responsiveness there is to solar activ ty. Unfortunately, studies on solar-terres (ial interactions do not show a ‘one-to-one correspondence, So one wort ders i there is not some other factor that ‘might actually be the mechanism that triggers this biological responsiveness ‘And there is another factor that cancies 14 Scmfapproved Por Release 2000/08/40.;,ClA-RDP96.00792R000400120043:0.....___Approvéid FoOReledWe 2004/08/ : C@-RDI solar activity and that is EL." ELF is extremely low frequency elec. tromagnetic radiation @ to 30 hertz), in other words, very long radio waves. ELF 's produced naturally in two ways. The first is through solar activity. Whea the ‘sin bulk of particles shot from the sun \durig a solar Mare finally hits the Earth's magnetic field, it rattles the magneto- sphere the way a hungry chimp might sake a bread box, This Mapping of the magnetosphere generates ELF. ELF is ako produced indirectly through a sec- fond channel of propagation—weather THE ELF FACTOR Adium is currently testing the hypoth sis that ELF might be the geophysical variable responsible for triggering all kinds of biological and seismic processes. Unfortunately, relatively litle work has tocen done on wavelengths below 100 hertz, But biological processes are known to respond to several frequencies within this range. A. somewhat casual German, study of $3,000 subjects, for example, Secied to show that people take longer to resp to normal stimuli whea they are fn the vicinity of ELF waves. Biologists Mudying ELF have come up with alist of Symptoms remarkably similar 10 those ‘Adit responsives report Tris also known that the frequency of alpha brain waves (8 hertz) has a geotogi= cal parallel in what is called the Schu- ran Resonance, the frequency at whieh the length of a radio wave equals the cr. csumference of the Barth. This piece of in- Formation set Adams wondering whether ELF might not also help directly trigger carthquakes. Although she dossa't claim to know just how ELF provides the final ‘nudge that brings on the catastrophe, she dloes. speculate on 1w0 possitle mech isms: piezocletricity and magnetostric~ rolectrsity is a process by which clgctromagnetic energy is converted. to ‘echnical energy or vice versa occurs most notably in erystals, and ts the basis or the quastz watch, The quartz picks up the electromagnetic signal and converts it oa mechanical vibration that is hen am- plified. Perhaps the Earth's crust begins to vibrate trough such an effect, says ‘Adams, or through magnetestriction, « process by which certain magnetic mute Fials change shape when they are subject: fl to-a magnetic field, When subjected to fan oscillating field, such as ELF, a me- chanical motion, or vibration, is. pro- ‘duced. Might such a mechanical vibra- tion, set off by ELF at a frequency that resonates with a fault location that has ssceumulated the most strain, be sufficient Cortrigger an earthquake? Only farther re ‘Adams thinks that responsives act as biological transducers and are quicker at absorbing and integeating information than any current scientific instrument Eventually, however, she expects to be able to sepaeate che human variable from the forecasts. Within @ year or two, de pending on the availability of funds for proper equipment that will help er cre- Aten accurate model, she hopes 10 make daily forecasts of earthquake probabil ties, like a daily weather forecast, using ircet measurements of ELF and/or solar activity 10 supplement the human dats Certainly the most eye-opening aspect of Adams's current forecasting system is the finding that responsives need not be the vicinity of an earthquake in order fotecast it. Low-frequency radio waves travel around the world many times with aninimaim attenuation because the cavity between the Earth and the ionosphere ‘ets a8 a vast natural resonator for elec- tromagnetic energies of these wav effect allows responsives in (0 predict quakes anywhere the world strongly suspect,” says Adams, that the information that would allow us ‘A painful sunburn or skin cancer fare only the most obvious effects of sunlight on human health, The sun may also have the power to alter your ‘moods, your immune system and per hhaps even your fertility Evidence suggests that secretions of relatonin—-a hormone Tinked to re- productive function in some an Imals~ are regulated, in part, by daily cycles of light and dark. MIT endocti- nologist Richare! Wurtman and his eo- workers have found that humans se- erete more melatonin between 11 v.Mt and 7 424. Further, Alfred Lewy, ane seareh psychiatrist at the Oregon Healt Sciences University, and his colleagues have recently shown that bright artificial light and sunlight turn ‘off this melatonin secretion. These re sponses are thought to be mediated by sible light (part of the sun's spec- tram), which acts on photoreceptors in the eye. Lewy has found that some blind poopie have different melatonin secrotion iythms than people with normal sight ‘Although in some animals metato- nin inhibits ovulation and causes adult lRonads to regress under certain condi tions, evidence for a link between light and fertility in hunvans lasso far been indirect. One Four-year study reported AMAZIN R00 to determine location cea be found in the symptoms themselves. What sosms t0 be happening is that even a person who has the same symptonis over and over may have additional symptoms that appear 10 be location dependent. For instance, T've noticed that the flushed sensation and chills seem 10 be prevalent for earth. quakes that are to oceur within a two- hhundred-mile radius of San Francisco ay. The timing of the calls may also pro- vide loeation clues, Looking at track re- cords, I've noticed that for some individ uals, if the quake doesn't occur within a diay of theie cal, the probability of the dis- turbance being local decreases.” The theory's potential applications probably played a large part in capturing the public's attention when news of her | work leaked to the press last September. California's Governor Jerry Brown was intrigued enough to call her, and subse ‘quently Adams vas invited to describe hher work before a hearing on earthquake prediction and preparedness held by the State's Assombly Committee on Govern ‘mental Operations, The committee gave her @ courtcous reception and wished to ‘Continued on page 108 that most women ia north Finland oneeived during the summers, when there are about 20 hours of sunlight a day. And an Taian study showed that in spring teenage girls had a 10 times igreater sceretion of a hormone that a fects the ovaries than they did in a tiumn—presumably in response to the influence of increasing versus decreas- ing daylight ‘Some people who suffer from manic depression, & mood disorder, are ab- ‘normally scasiive to light; Lewy and his co-workers discovered that some sufferers stop secreting melatonin at @ Jower-than-average light intensity. But ‘whether the hormone directly affects ‘mood or is just a marker for other bio chemical changes going on inside the body is not known, Other evidence indicates that the sun's ultraviolet light impairs the hu: ‘man immune system by causing ab- normalities, at least temporarily, in ‘white blood cells. Work with animal cells at Harvard. Medical School has ‘demonstrated that exposure to ultravi- bit rays prevents the proper function ing of cells involved in fighting infec tion and, at the same time, stimulates suppressor cells, which normally turn ‘ff the immune system Madeline Chinniet 81200130. |EARTPQUAKES:se 26INEOLKA.RDP 96-007 | Comin fom page 75 | be apy onas of Further progress in her re: | The US, Geological Survey's (USGS) | once of Earthquake Studies i Menlo | Park. California, also gave her sn oppor- tuts Co peesent er work, but the mao it ofits sientists apparently fel that the tsidanoe he presented was not persuash | enmigh to warrant funding by the USGS. | Coitarry Raleigh, a geophysicist with the USGS the time, however, indicates that they’ encouraged hee to pursue lice work. Dealing with a subjet of ck sop soles risks, and Adams's theory has | Seat its stare of ertciamy, mitch of i From asologists. “T never se pl to- sether the kind of criti evidence re- {red to make a hypothesis like that be von marginally aeeeptablec” says Re Ieigh, currently director of the Lamont Doherty Geological Observatory, whe huss been outspoken in his eritcsm of het swork "The dw is interesting, but 1 was Hol backed up to my satisfaction by an aicquate body of objective data that Sold allow you to decide if there was susihing 10 itor not, Probably the weak est Tink inher work is that thet i 90 ree Soable physical model that night ex plain the phenomenon. Bu there is Slows someting i thee hat has PREMATURE EXPOSURE Aum ogrels the premare publicity sc hinrecived I ha fora he 0 re. | Sent her work hough the mati, without isting the ees peste is fe jurnal und. even more important Slot et having completed oro sal ofall her dat iver i is formative Aslan i clearly ented by the theory Tere iva variable that we ae not nvare cf sn! yet fe preset and fauencing ll she sy "think everyone sy’ ansitve oto some degree It's int that people are not aware of what to Tk for. Ite matter of expostre recap ion ad aeirenesUnfonacy T Ahk ha right now we ate culturally bi snc aga thts particular variable Winle many of Adam's cllegucs sain skeptical about her work ber notion | char the sun bas profound effect on our | lives would certainly have come as no sur- yr to Unele Joe Cannon the venerable Spier ofthe US. House of Represent snes between 1903 snd 191. During | cicte on appropriations for solar ro Starch, it yar Uncle Joc Sho argued: | iverpthing hangs apo the sun, ste and | it ong toe investigated =| ge, however, Do sou want to kinwe more abwt how the suo affects us? See next month's Sei Digest tory about the exeting search on the salar wind's role in the aurara boreal ‘antinued from page 88 ffect—the character ofthe original gene pool. If the first acestors did ot have a furticular genetic disease, then it is ut Mkely (0 anne in their descends living laboratories of what can happen from gencrations of inbreeding,” says Dr Martin Greenberg, head of pediatrics at 9 hospital near the Ridge. Alchough no one has done any clinical studies om the Ridge, such as those that hive been done ton the Amis (See page 87), the Families there reveal and talk abo problems th Greenberg says may be hereditary. From what T have seen and what ain aware of, there are some abnormalities that seen tobe related to disorders of the boone, connective tissues and joints, Also apparent in sane of the families isan in creased incidence of neurological prob lems, ranging from sicokes and seizures to 28 oF tena retardation, FEAR OF INBREEDING The severity of the punishments often given t0 those who have violated taboos against incest wont seem wo reflect a very profound fenr of inbrosding. It is hardly surprising that the sporadie and often suulden appearance of physical or mental illness anming childeen of consanguineous | ‘maeriages is seized on asthe ultimate jus {ification for such taboos. ‘The problematic history of incest and the simultaneous fragility and strength of aman evolution are only few nf the di femmas one fies in trying to nnderstand Ridge. How van you separate the socia and medical effects. of snbreeding? In Judging the modieal elects of inbreeding, how certain can we be about the wature of the original gene pool? Tow cin we decide which society #s more advan: the eanimunity that tol ‘erates andl cares forthe sick and the olin the normal run of family fife oF the one ‘hat puts them away i institations? Greonber Had Histone for years to tales of violence and mental disturbance fon the Rigs. Finally, he went up to see for himself "What is striking abo these people," he says. “is ot so miueh their Beni problems, Rather, is the whole re of soci interaction, their lolerance land caring, the interdependence, the a= feeptance, the charity, the openness a thei loves and ihcir hates In spite of iis anarchies and contradic. tions, ceasional ugliness sand the laby. 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It will bea five-story build- ing in downtown Baltimore, { ‘The Space Telescope Scienoe Institute | | (STSD, now being built at Johns Hopkins University, will be the final destinstion for data transmitted from the Space Tele scop2, an orbiting observatory that pro | cet scientists say Will see objects $0 times fainter and 7 times further away than cas bbe detected by the largest Earih-based the Space Telescope is placed inte | orbit by the space shuttle and bogins i ‘observations, a crew about 80 strong will ‘operate the STSI around the clock As | ‘ne scientist's experiment ends, another's; will begin, and by the end of one year it ‘estimated that the facility will have aos ced. more “than 150 visiting astronomers from around the world Data and pictures from he Space Tele scope will rst be (ransmitted ¢0 NASA'S Goddard Space Fight Center in Greer belt, Maryland, where the craft's ground systeins are located, and then relayed (0 | the STST's on-line observation arcs. 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