with any short-term accuracy at all. This is a gullibility test… or an attempt to spook the masses.
Several years back a rumor went viral on the Big Island of Hawaii. Somebody told somebody that “civil defense said…” there would be a 9.0 earthquake at 9pm that night on the island. It went viral via telephone & text on the island, and then the neighbor islands too. It was so pervasive that the TV stations put Civil Defense and the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center people on TV to deny and quash the rumors that evening. It showed up in the newspapers the next day also.
It made such a media splash that Clif High’s predictive linguistics picked up on it several weeks in advance, and he was looking for a 9.0 earthquake. The quake never happened, of course, but it was a ‘hit’ for the linguistics that got published the next day talking about the 9.0 earthquake rumor. The linguistics prediction was fullfilled…. the language was there.
Earthquakes cannot be predicted. Not the timing. Not the magnitude. Period.
IF something happens… it was CAUSED.
