(Thanks, B. :)

I haven't been able to confirm that the source article was originally posted in 2011, but the disclaimer is certainly there:

DISCLAIMER: The above article is posted as an illustration of pseudo-scientific alarmism.

...and:

John O'Sullivan

March 6, 2019 at 12:17 pm | #

Regular readers will appreciate we post articles like this to mock faux science alarmism, not praise it.

That's at this location:

https://principia-scientific.org/putins-scientists-predict-mega-u-s-earthquake-in-two-weeks/

Reader Blue writes and sends us:

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Hi,

Pardon my intrusion... I cannot post into RMN but a fellow named Natural Wisdom posted an article about west coast earthquake on 20th March. Its a scam according to the comments below the article and it was originally posted for March 2011. See this comment by one of their posters:

Before you do that, and before the thing goes viral and gives Principia a bad name, note that the article is now eight years old. The two week period mentioned is for March, 2011. Look up “Institute Of Physics Of The Earth” and you’ll find the article from then. Notice how young Putin looks and also that he is called the Prime Minister. He was Prime Minister until 2012, when Medvedev took over the slot. And the scales of the planet masses and sizes to the earth are whacko. Jupiter, the largest planet, is 318 time as massive and has a diameter 11.2 times as large… not a grapefruit compared to a grain of pepper… not even a BB compared to a grain of pepper. We’re being scammed to send us out on screamers and possibly hurt Principia.

If you can post this under that earthquake article to let people know? With thanks, Blue

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