It's Earthquake Season - Huge Temblor Predicted by Sept. 5
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Okay - maybe he's just the scientific equivalent of the wild-eyed geezer roaming Broadway with a "The End Is Nigh" sign - and maybe he's right.
UCLA geophysicist Vladimir Kellis-Borok and his research team have gone out on a limb that's notably devoid of their colleagues, to predict that a 6.4-magnitude earthquake will hit Southern California by Sept. 5. Mark your calendars.
The scary thing is, they've been right twice before ...
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 ... [Kellis-Borok's research] was endorsed by a state panel, the California Earthquake Prediction Evaluation Council, earlier this month.
Feel qualified to judge whether he's right or not? Or are you one of those people who considers themselves properly prepared for earthquakes with a jug of water, a flashlight, a first aid kit and a crate of beans in their car trunks?
Maybe I'll just do what I did the last time I ignored advice to prepare for an earthquake:
Dodge the furniture that was dancing all over my Sherman Oaks bedroom on 1/17/94 (5 miles from the epicenter)
Shovel up the stew of ketchup, jello, sour cream and shattered glass that the fridge barfed all over the kitchen floor
Wander out to marvel at the strange luck that protected me from horrific injury or property damage when buildings just a block away were nearly flattened
Eat cold, canned food by candlelight for four nights and thank the Powers That Be that we didn't lose water pressure, too.
