EARTHQUAKE CLOUDS AND
SHORT TERM PREDICTION

The Jakarta Cloud & Shiraki’s Clouds

- May 25, 2007 -

 

Many Indonesia people sent me two photos, one for a Kobe earthquake cloud, and the other for the Jakarta cloud, taken on March 11, 2007 [1], from newspaper, and asked me about if it was an earthquake cloud and if a large earthquake would be in Jakarta. I told them that my friends had already showed me two “Kobe earthquake clouds” in Japanese newspapers. This was the third one. How many clouds did the Kobe earthquake have? What is evidence to support this cloud as “Kobe cloud”?  The Jakarta cloud looks like an airplane cloud for its dim edge, while an earthquake cloud looks clear usually [2] because the latter has a diameter of 4~20km, much bigger than the former, so wind scatters the latter much harder than the former. However, I forgot to tell them to care two earthquake clouds  http://quake.exit.com/images2007/200702280000xIndoneCL.jpg http://quake.exit.com/images2007/200703212100jIndoneCL.jpg  Lacking necessary data, I could not pinpoint out their epicenters and magnitudes, and mistakes are possible (68% accuracy in general [2]).

Recently, Mr. Taeko Shiraki informed me about his book, “Hi,  Japane's EARTHQUAKE CLOUDS 2001year  2007year
http://plaza.rakuten.co.jp/soragazou/
http://sora.ishikami.jp/index.html

Taeko Shiraki              
The Sky and Stars Published Company
20-12-2-8Jyo Nishino  Nishiku
Saporoshi  Hokkaidou Japan
+81-11-666-2856  e mail,  kayoko@ishikami.jp” on May 7, 2007.

After reviewing the photos in the former link, I wrote him, “You'd better prove your ability to distinguish earthquake clouds from weather clouds at first. Otherwise, false earthquake clouds will make panic and kill people” on May 8.

On May 9, he explained, “We take pictures if a strange cloud appears” and then “We came to turn consciousness to a message from space. The message says earthquake may be generated”.  He showed me a set of ten earthquake clouds for only one earthquake by the following link http://sora.ishikami.jp/image_earth/index.php?id=20070509132806  Then, he warned me, “If you think that you can announce an earthquake previously, you never understand a message from the universe.”

On May 11, I asked him about whom "the consciousness from space" was, and he replied, “I receive information from the universe for 8 years. I can't tell you the thing easily.” 

On May 17, I suggested, “You'd better learn scientific methods to prove your clouds as earthquake clouds. You'd better ask meteorologists about your clouds” and he replied, “Unfortunately.
A meteorologist doesn't admit a relation between cloud and an earthquake.” I asked him, “So, you admit that no meteorologist agrees with ‘your earthquake clouds’, don't you?” He told me that many earthquake cloud sites in Japan were like his, “They can't explain the difference in the forms of the various earthquakes, either.” 

On May 18, he wrote, “I'm sorry. I can't understand English. I'm writing a mail by a translation software.
I don't know the meaning of your question.” I knew his lie, but told him that was a tag question to make sure. He wrote, “I can't understand English” again. I suggested asking an English teacher. He could not reply my tag question, but could make email delivery failed permanently. Therefore, I have to show the above discussion to the public, so people will be able to judge if his book is scientific or not. I faithfully hope Mr. Shiraki and many others with various methods to prove their works more than to publish something. Otherwise, people may be confused for their false works.  

 

 

References

1.      Jakarta cloud on March 11, 2007

2.      Darrell Harrington & Zhonghao Shou Bam Earthquake Prediction & Space Technology Seminars of the United Nations Programme on Space Applications16, 39-63 (2005).

 


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