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If this is crookie at work i sure wish they woulda sent me an email yesterday letting me know
This is freakin ridiculous,,every stock i own red,,shoulda quit and took thw rest of the week off after the DYTK run
Buck,,here's $5
RTK dropping
Magic,,so you'll be here and there? just asking,,if you're not gonna stay with WC i won't renew my sub with WC
But that will be wayyyyy cool with BSS chat room,,keep the penny scalpers from crashing the party
Deac turns in beer can collection and buys IED
Shopping time?? loan me your gold card,,mine is maxed out
Another day of watching paint dry
Holy EarthQuake BatMan,,glad i live in the midwest
Expert warns California to brace for big quake by September
Thu Apr 15,10:20 AM ET Add U.S. National - AFP to My Yahoo!
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - A US geophysicist has set the scientific world ablaze by claiming to have cracked a holy grail: accurate earthquake prediction, and warning that a big one will soon hit southern California.
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Russian-born University of California at Los Angeles professor Vladimir Keilis-Borok says he can foresee major quakes by tracking minor temblors and historical patterns in seismic hotspots that could indicate more violent shaking is on the way.
And he has made a chilling prediction that a quake measuring at least 6.4 magnitude on the Richter scale will hit a 31,200-square-kilometer (12,000-square-mile) area of southern California by September 5.
The team at UCLA's Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics accurately predicted a 6.5-magnitude quake in central California last December as well as an 8.1-magnitude temblor that struck the Japanese island of Hokkaido in September.
"Earthquake prediction is called the Holy Grail of earthquake science, and has been considered impossible by many scientists," said Keilis-Borok, 82. "It is not impossible.
"We have made a major breakthrough, discovering the possibility of making predictions months ahead of time, instead of years, as in previously known methods."
If accurate, the prediction method would be critical in an area like California, which is criss-crossed by fault lines that have spawned devastating quakes over the years including ones which ravaged San Francisco in 1989 and Los Angeles in 1994.
That has given credence to his research, which was endorsed by a state panel, the California Earthquake Prediction Evaluation Council, earlier this month.
"Even two years back it was practically a dirty word to say earthquake prediction," said Nancy Sauer, an organiser of the annual conference of the Seismological Society of America which began Wednesday in Palm Springs.
The UCLA team -- made up of US, Japanese, Canadian, European and Russian experts in pattern recognition, geodynamics, seismology, chaos theory, statistical physics and public safety -- says it has developed algorithms to detect earthquake patterns.
The experts predicted in June an earthquake measuring 6.4 or higher would strike within nine months in a 496-kilometer (310-mile) region of central California, including San Simeon, where a 6.5-magnitude temblor struck December 22, killing two people.
In July, they said they predicted a magnitude 7.0 or higher quake in a region that included Hokkaido by December 28. The September 25 quake fell within that period.
Now they predict a major quake will hit an area that stretches across desert regions to the east of Los Angeles, home to around nine million people, including the Mojave desert and the resort town of Palm Springs, which lies near the notorious San Andreas fault.
That is where experts began gathering for the Seismological Society of America conference that looks sure to be dominated by passionate discussion of Keilis-Borok's prediction method.
"There is something going on," Sauer told the Desert Sun newspaper in Palm Springs. "People are at least willing to entertain the idea. It is not seen so much as junk science now."
Another seismic expert, University of Oregon professor Ray Weldon, was scheduled to present findings to the conference that appear to support Keilis-Borok's research by saying the San Andreas fault is about to enter a new and violent period of shaking.
The data, according to the Desert Sun, was gathered over 18 years around the famed fault, showing it is under high levels of stress.
"You could consider that support (for Keilis-Borok's research)," Weldon was quoted as saying. "But I dont lend any insight or support to a window of time."
But researchers still point to the fact that the science of earthquake prediction has been notoriously inaccurate and the geographic area targeted by the UCLA team for an imminent quake is very large.
"It is not specific," said Susan Hough, a seismologist for the US Geological Survey based in Pasadena, near Los Angeles. "Theyve made three predictions and two of them have been borne out."
Keilis-Borok himself acknowledged the caution expressed by some of his colleagues. "Application of non-linear dynamics and chaos theory is often counter-intuitive, so acceptance by some research teams will take time."
But if his latest prediction that the earth will move in the area around Los Angeles within the next five months proves accurate, his research could end up saving lives and transforming seismology.
Hot sector?? hmm insurance maybe?? what do i win
I'm with Tag,,but i've been doing enough scooping my back hurts
My screen is doing it's best impression of a Wild Kingdom show,,everything on the list looks like a babboons @$$,,RED
Yep,,if they leave the rate where it is everyone freaks that the economy is crap and if they raise the rates everyone freaks about that,
Magic,,U scared me for sec,,thought your last post was about ADST and ANCC,,yikes
Dang Bush,,go walk that dog again
EAG jmho but looked like crookie was buying,,but just a guess on my part
Stoogie,,that's funny,,the wording you used,,not that it's halted
EAG,,well this sucks
Bush,,ANCC,,with those dog results i'm thinking of heading to the yard myself
EAG up in pm,,hope it continues
Poker Night: first you have to download the PartyPoker.com site and then make sure you have some $$$ transfered to your account,,after that it takes 10 seconds to set up a private table with 10 seats
GV: not in yet but about to be,,i think
GROW moving up,,cool
hmm,,i'll just sit on the bench and watch,,leave all this tradin stuff to the pro's
$20???
looks like bird shoulda whispered earlier to let the little chicks in .50 ago,,hehe
Tag did cnbc mention GROW?
Curmudgeon,,just a friendly response to your last post.
as to your message,,"I bet it's also not a coincidence that he's in a postiion of power here at WC."
I think the only reason i'm an asst. here is because Magic and Flutie feel sorry for me,,you know kinda a big brother thing,,My string of bad luck over the last few years,,err losing most all my $$$ to RAD-my x wife-mom and dad taking the dirt nap ect ect,,sorta like the Sopranos,,guess that makes me Christopher,,now which one is Tony and who is Uncle June,,hmm
Bush,,i'm just a small time player,,but anytime you want to play some poker let me know,,just as soon as i get Flutie or Magic to bankroll me im in
In ANCC,,funny had 5K order at the ask and it took forever to get filled even though MM had more than my order size posted
I have a feeling RTK is gonna run 1 of these days
Between Magic-Flutie and Tag,,I need more $$$ so i can keep up buying all these alerts,,woulda had it if I hadn't sold DYTK too early yesterday
GROW needs some volume
I was talking about,,
riding the bus to visit g-ma,,always like to sit in the middle,,i get sick when riding in the front and back,,,get yer mind outta the gutter,,,hehe
wide spread?? hmmm
well get a visual of my once a year favorite activity and you want to be right in the middle
but i also think it means no one wants to sell
Flutie,,nice bounce from lod on #1 channel play
Hey Magic,,i started playing cards at PokerStars.com last week (also @PartyPoker) nothing big, just the .50-1.00 limit hold em table and was looking at all the different tables they have and saw 2 that are $100-$200 limit tables,,un freakin real to watch,,pots average 2-3K and most of the people playing had minimum of 10K in front of them,,if only i hadn't "folded" on DYTK today,,,rats
ford guy,,me make something up?? i'm not a used car salesman,,but in the words of Bill Clinton,,i can not lie,,Yep i made it up
DYTK: maybe this is the reason for the run,,I guess since i was holding this since 1/22 of this year they considered me a long term shareholder, so i went to the post office just now and in my mail box was a copy of the Annual Report for 2003,,not sure what it says but must be good
Hey my g-ma's proctologist drives a ford probe,,go figure