7. Science Catches Up With Astrology: Planets Cause
Quakes, Says New Study
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A study by Jeganathan Chockalingam of the Birla Institute of Technology at Mesra in Ranchi and two co- authors ...
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Predicting earthquakes has always been an iffy science but a group of Indian experts claims to have found a possible way out.
They have come up with a list of “earthquake-sensitive” days for
2016 and even claim that their predicted quake dates for January
have been validated. A study by JeganathanChockalingam of
the Birla Institute of Technology at Mesra in Ranchi and two
co-authors found that there is very clear evidence of planetary
configurations creating orbital perturbations on the earth,
which finally results in an earthquake. Motivated by astrology,
Chockalingam and his team wanted to test whether there is any
possible link between earthquakes and planets. They started
their observations seriously after the 2004 tsunami which
killed thousands of people in India, Indonesia and Sri Lanka to
understand planetary configurations and major earthquakes. The
study says gravitational interactions among the bigger planets
such as Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune create invisible
resultant gravity vectors (IRGV) that act as an imperceptible
planetary force when an inner planet crosses them. “Whenever
our Earth crossed these IRGVs, there invariably were major
earthquakes. Other inner planetary crossings showed similar
results as well,” says the study published in the latest issue of
the International Journal of Advances in Remote Sensing, GIS
and Geography.
Even simple two-planetary alignments were checked out
for their contribution to earthquakes, the study said, adding
that the researchers consistently identified a link between a
particular planetary configuration and earthquakes. “Overall,
the explanation capabilities of each possible configuration were
critically crosschecked and we hope that the study will give a
new dimension to the field of earthquakes, gravity anomalies
and their prediction. Finally, the study predicted the sensitive
days for 2016 and researchers may validate our concepts and
results based on actual ground shaking,” said Chockalingam.
The authors visualised the solar system as a gravity lake having
a lot of gravity waves (big and minor just like ocean), and that
every planet travels across these waves during its orbit round
the sun just like a ship travelling in the ocean. According to
their assumption, these gravity waves can increase and decrease spatially and temporally. “All spatial locations of resultant
gravity vectors (RGVs) resulting from all combinations of major
planets were identified. The study revealed that whenever
a planetary vector crosses those RGVs, a gravity ripple is
created and it perturbs the earth’s orbital path and hence alters
the movement pattern on the surface of the earth as well as
underground,” the study said.