a saviour is here ?!?

["Komaragiri, Param (Param)** CTR **" <param@lucent.com>]

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Dear Members,

Here is an article that nerrates miraculous provess of one Great Person
named Nayar, about earthquake prediction methods ( scientific -- nothing
metaphysical !) .Many of us must have seen that, if any one missed it, I
thought, let me present here once again.

> http://www.rediff.com/news/2001/feb/02spec.htm
> 
It is TOO Good to be true. But the Great Man, who is frustrated that our
typical redtape, beauracracy hampered offcial acceptance of his methods of
prediction, I jope he should surely prove to be a saviour not only for
India, but for the rest of world, apart from adding an important chapter in
seismological sciences.Or will our wait till some body from overseas come to
garland him and discuss about his methods !

Parameswar


copy of article :
> Can earthquakes be predicted? Scientists and seismologists the world over
> say it is impossible. Eighty-year-old P N Nair, though, believes he has
> developed a scientific method that can predict both the general time frame
> and the location of an impending earthquake. Though science may dismiss
> him, thousands of Kutch residents will now find it difficult to forget
> him. Earlier, when he predicted a devastating earthquake would hit Gujarat
> by the end of January, people pooh-poohed him. Then, when he published his
> forecast in the Gujarat daily, Kutch Mitra, on January 8, the experts
> dismissed it. Nair even tried his best to impress on the Gujarat
> government the seriousness of his findings, but the authorities ignored
> his warnings. Which is why, today, Nair is a frustrated man. Though he is
> distraught that most of his friends and neighbours in Gandhidham have
> perished, he is relieved that his wife, two daughters, son and their
> children are safe; that his house there has escaped with only a few minor
> cracks. But, as he prepares to leave for Gandhidham where he has been
> living for the past 51 years, Nair is a hero among hundreds of villagers
> in the hilly area of Poonjar in Kerala's Kottayam district. The reason:
> when he landed there on January 24 to study the frequent tremors in
> Kerala's central districts, Nair predicted a major earthquake would hit
> Gujarat within seven days. K N Ramachandran, in whose house Nair made the
> prediction, is yet to recover from the shock of finding out his guest was
> right. "On the evening of January 24, Nair said he could sense thunderous
> sound from within the earth. He then explained to me and others in the
> village that an earthquake would soon hit Gujarat. When that disaster
> actually happened on Republic Day, we were awestruck." Ramachandran is a
> retired deputy director of education in Kerala. Nair denies any
> premonition about impending earthquakes. He adds that -- unlike what
> people are beginning to attribute to him -- he does not have any divine
> powers. "It is all scientific," he insists. "I can predict earthquakes
> scientifically. But I am sad that the authorities and the so-called
> seismological experts are unwilling to listen to me." When and how did
> earthquakes begin to fascinate him so much that he made it the focus of
> his life? Nair, who then worked for the Military Engineering Services, was
> transferred from Kerala to Kandla in 1949. Seven years later, an
> earthquake measuring seven on the Richter Scale hit Gujarat, killing over
> a hundred people and displacing hundreds. "I was a victim of the
> earthquake that hit Kutch in 1956," he says. "I was wounded and our home
> was partially damaged. It was then that I resolved I would study
> earthquakes." He began at night, standing barefoot on the land outside his
> house. And he would feel a sound, which he compares to that of a gunshot.
> Occasionally, he would even feel an electric shock go through his body. He
> read extensively on sound waves and the earth's movements. He researched
> the entire Kutch area. And then, in 1974, he announced what he called the
> Nair Effect Magnetic Field Theory. "There is a momentary lightening and
> thunder effect below the earth's crust when its plates collide. This
> produces a magnetic field, whose properties are different from the earth's
> geomagnetic field. "The earth's crust is formed of plates. When these
> plates collide, the electrons move and a process of ionization takes
> place, aided by the high temperature below the earth's crust. The
> electrons start moving almost 40 days prior to an earthquake. Due to the
> frequent collision of plates in an earthquake prone area, the amount of
> electrons emitted increases steadily as does the temperature under the
> ground. The emitted electrons form of a magnetic field in the area
> surrounding the plate. Finally, a force is experienced on the earth's
> surface -- we call it an earthquake." Nair says the traditional tectonic
> theory accepted by seismologists has many holes. "It does not explain the
> gap between the accumulation of pressure under the ground and the actual
> earthquake. Seismologists do not know what happens between these two
> processes. My theory fills this gap; it explains how a magnetic process
> takes place both inside and outside the earth before an earthquake
> actually happens." Nair claims that, seven days before an earthquake hits
> a region, one can scientifically spot the following indicators: A humming
> effect follows most sounds; swaying shock-waves; the rumbling sound of
> vehicles or falling objects; the audibility of distant sounds; echoes in
> the horizon; khar-khar sounds on the roads and flashes of light that move
> from right to left on television sets. Thunder-like sounds emanating from
> within the earth are the final signal that an earthquake is near. But how
> do these indicators help Nair decide the location of an earthquake? "The
> direction of these sounds can be scaled, depending upon their strength and
> force. Let me try to explain with a rough example. If you felt that these
> sounds were coming from, say one kilometre away, it is certain the
> earthquake would hit some 1,500 kilometers away." 
> How does he measure these sounds? Nair has created an harmonium-like
> instrument, powered by four batteries, that can feel the signals of an
> impending earthquake. So how many earthquakes has he predicted? "Many,"
> says Nair, opening a diary in which he has listed the times and the places
> of the earthquakes he has predicted. He said that, sitting in Kutch which
> was 3,000 kilometres away, he predicted the earthquake that hit Iran and
> Iraq two days before it happened. The quake registered five on the Richter
> Scale. He says he also predicted the 1992 Tokyo earthquake three days
> before it happened. In the seventies, Nair wrote to then prime minister
> Indira Gandhi about his ability to predict earthquakes. She forwarded his
> request to the Indian Meteorological Department and other earthquake
> research centres. "But I did not get any response from them. Everyone
> thinks I am a prankster. If the government spends half the money it wastes
> on the countless number of scientists and seismologists who do no work
> across the country, I can develop a world-class research centre for
> earthquakes in India." But neither the government nor the experts have
> approved his theory. 
> Nair, though, has the support of the people of Kerala. In 1993, during one
> of his visits to the state, Nair said Kerala was earthquake-prone. On
> December 2, 2000, he predicted an earthquake would hit the states; a
> prediction was dismissed by the people of Kerala. On December 12 -- just
> 10 days after Nair's prediction -- an earthquake measuring 5.2 on the
> Richter Scale hit Kerala for the first time. Since then, the Malayalam
> vernacular press has dubbed him Earthquake chettan (brother). In the last
> two months, Nair has held three press conferences. He has addressed a
> number of public meetings where he answers people's queries on
> earthquakes. He has received a handful of invitations from various
> cultural societies to talk about earthquake predictions. Nair, though, is
> preparing to return to Gandhidham. To take stock of the earthquake's
> aftermath. And to spread his theory about the future shocks that we can
> expect from the planet we call home. 
> Design: Dominic Xavier 
> 
> 
> 


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