Dear Community,

Hope you are all earthquake ready; this full moon (and the days just before and after) may be dangerous for the West Coast, and even non-earthquake prone areas.

Great gift giving idea: emergency preparedness supplies. Has your family reviewed your emergency plan recently? Check for a CERT (Community Emergency Response Teams) course training in your town; or ask your local officials to sponsor them.

Wishing you happy & safe holidays,

Colleen Fernald

Cool video:
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTlrSYbCbHE

Quake Updates:

First hour guest, geologist Jim Berkland spoke about earthquakes. There's an 85% probability of seismic activity during the window of Dec. 12 -13th, 2008, due to a full moon and very high tides, he said. Normally active areas such as the West Coast would be the likeliest locations for earthquakes during this time.
https://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2008/11/20.html

https://www.syzygyjob.com/

Quake Watch, Continues, New Trade Figs.
Thanks to George Noory, who was kind enough to have my on Coast to Coast AM for a few minutes last night. As I told him, Cliff at www.halfpasthuman.com and I hope Cliff's linguistic projections of a major earthquake are wrong, but since the technology has accurately given good lead times on other events, it wouldn't be surprising to see 'breaking news' about a major earthquake on the news channels & news crawlers in the next day or three.

By the way, the full moon of tomorrow is the biggest and brightest of the year - good piece on the 'super moon' on the NASA web site here.

Meantime, we understand there's some discussion out of Singapore about putting a similar predictive linguistics project together. Oh, not similar in funding - instead of a garage/part-time project by a couple of nutjobs, theirs is government monied and of a larger scale. We understand it will be called DiANE - a digital analysis network environment - and may give Singaporean government types a heads up on big 'emotional shocks' in the future. We're waiting for a copy of the working paper (in Chinese).

Unfortunately, the lifespan of a project like this could be limited by the new 'political correctness' software that may change words being displayed off discussion groups and such to reduce the sometimes inflammatory (and yeah, maybe even the odd terrorism discussion) on the 'net. Seems you can't get it both ways in the digital world...
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Several readers have asked 'could the linguistics be pointing toward a New Madrid' event? I suppose...and yeah, I caught that out of the ordinary 2.0 in Southeast Missouri... Two dead in a 5.0 quake in China today (latitude was 32.26.126 North, BTW) but likely not big enough to count. I'm holding out that to get the kind of visibility implied, it would need to be near the May China quake in size & coverage.

Web Bot Warning

George Ure, who spots future events using a Web Bot technology that tracks language shifts on the Internet, appeared during the first half-hour. We are now in an earthquake window from Dec. 10 – Dec. 15th, he declared, adding that he expects two quakes during this period, one with a magnitude 8 that will cause disruptions.