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Honeycombed with literally thousands of geological faults, California has already had its share of earthquakes. But, warns a California Institute of Technology geophysicist, the state may soon be in for another. James Whitcomb, 35, said last week measurements suggest that an earthquake ranging in magnitude from 5.5 to 6.5 on the Richter scale could occur within the next year in an area 87 miles in diameter that covers part of Los Angeles and the San Fernando and Antelope valleys. It includes the portion of the San Fernando where a major upheaval killed 58 people in 1971 and part...
Soon California Institute of Technology's James Whitcomb, Jan Garmany and Don Anderson weighed in with more evidence. In a search of past records, they found a distinct drop in the speed of P waves 3½ years before the 1971 San Fernando quake (58 deaths), the largest in California in recent years. The P waves had returned to their normal velocity a few months before the tremor. Besides providing what amounted to a retroactive prediction of that powerful quake, the Caltech researchers demonstrated that it was primarily the velocity of the P waves, not the S waves, that...
...imminent earthquake of magnitude 2.5 to 3. As Aggarwal was sitting down to dinner two days later, the earth rumbled under his feet. "I could feel the waves passing by," he recalls, "and I was jubilant." In November 1973, after observing changes in P-wave velocity, Caltech's Whitcomb predicted that there would be a shock near Riverside, Calif., within three months. Sure enough, a tremor did hit before his deadline-on Jan. 30. Whitcomb's successful prediction was particularly important. All previous forecasts had involved quakes along thrust faults, where rock on one side of a fault...
...effects -the connection, say, between solar flare-ups and global climate-were highly skeptical about The Jupiter Effect. Don Anderson, director of Caltech's seismological laboratory, describes the book's predicted sequence of events as little more than "one inference piled upon another." His Caltech colleague, James Whitcomb, calls it a blend of "some plausible things with a lot of unproven things. For example, there is a correlation between sunspots and atmospheric activity, and atmospheric activity with variations in the earth's rotation, but the relationship between these changes in the rotation rate and the occurrence...
...forms it took bordered on sedition. Indiana's Governor Edgar Whitcomb, a World War II veteran, ordered all flags on state property flown at half-mast in protest against the verdict. Alabama's Governor George Wallace paid a twelve-minute call on the lieutenant en route to a pro-Calley rally that was also attended by Mississippi's Governor John Bell Williams and Georgia's Lieut. Governor Lester Maddox. Draft boards in Athens, Ga., and Huron County, Mich., resigned en masse...