According to a guest on Coast to Coast -- the Lunar Eclipse will bring earthquakes. (As I was typing the subject line, I had the thought that the earthquake wasn't going to be in the earth, it was going to be in the financial market. I am NOT psychic! This is just what I was thinking as I typed.)

Earthquake Prediction Online

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On January 9th there will be a perfect syzygy, with a total eclipse of the Moon. Just 12 hours later the Moon will be as close as 221,920 miles, its closest perigee since last July. This combination creates an excellent perigean spring tide of 8.9 feet on January 9 and 10 at San Francisco and Los Angeles, and a potent 16.7 feet in Puget Sound. Such ranges have not been matched since Dec 19-26, 1991 and that window contained a 7.5M quake in the Kurile Islands and one of 7.0M in the South Sandwich Islands. (It is quite unusual to see two major quakes in the same week.)

Keeping in mind that such ranges in tidal heights occur within six hours, and that each foot of water over a square mile totals nearly one million tons, it is easy to visualize a tremendous change in water load over broad coastal areas. Such a shift in stress over fault lines often triggers seismic activity, and this window should be no exception. I predict with 80% confidence that between January 8-15, 2001 there will be:

a quake of 3.5-6.0M within 2-degrees (140 miles) of Mt. Diablo

a quake of 3.5-6.0M within 140 miles of Los Angeles

a quake of 3.0-6.0M in Oregon or Washington

a major global quake of 7.0+M, most likely within the Pacific Ring of Fire.

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