A presentation on earthquake clouds, it's causes, types, myth busters, predictability, new concepts, and San Andreas fault.

1. Earthquake Clouds
- Pradeep Peter Murmu & Rushi Patel

2. How are they different?
• Unknown form of genesis
• Like long snakes in the sky
• Precedes Earthquakes
• Contradicts the brittle fracture theory

3. Snake in the Sky
Earthquake clouds were observed for
the first time in 1622 in China
according to the records in which
they are described like long snakes.

4. “It was sunny and warm; the sky
was blue and clear. Suddenly, there
appeared threads of a black cloud
spanning the sky like a long snake.
The cloud stayed for a long time, so
there would be an earthquake”
Recorded in The Chronicle of Lon-De
County which was created 300 years
ago.

5. HOW ARE THEY CREATED?
• Heat from friction of rock rubbing together which can
increase temperatures up to 1500 degrees centigrade.
• Water seeps into the small cracks generating heated
moisture.
• This moisture is the source of formation of these clouds.
• Add some convection theories and wind patterns and the
theory seems GREAT!!

6. BUT THIS IS NATURE EXCEPTIONS…
• The mighty San Andreas fault in California doesn't generate
anywhere near the heat their theories predict.
• Scientists tried for modification in the theories but none were
satisfactory.
So, come the Heat Flow paradox!
According to Kovach-
“There obviously is heat generated, but it seems to be dissipated in a mysterious
fashion that we don't fully understand.”

7. But we also cannot reject the theory
because-
• The 1998 Zhangbie earthquake near
the great wall of China saw +6 to +9
degrees change in the crustal
temperature just before the incident.
• Also, in the Republic’s Day earthquake
in Gujarat, the thermal anatomy was
as large as +4 degrees.

8. Simulation of Earthquakes
"The Lattice Solid Model (LSM) (Mora and Place, 1994) is
based on molecular dynamics principles and enables
nonlinear phenomena to be simulated such as fracturing,
friction, thermal effects, porous flow, thermo-mechanical
coupling, thermo-porous coupling, granular dynamics, and
the stick-slip instability that are responsible for
earthquakes."

9. The study of earthquake
clouds
Since earthquake clouds cannot be explained by
our current knowledge of physics, it could be
possible that the study could lead to a
breakthrough. It could be possible that the
fundamental theories we’ve been taught might
become obsolete. It could be possible that once
we understand the exact science behind it, we
can use it to create new tech.

10. Earth transient clouds
• Earth Transient Clouds (ETrC) form in seconds, thousands
of feet above the earth.
• Patterns (clouds) are result of physical subterranean
earth structures (faults, tubes, etc) from refractive effects
and from earth transient interference patterns (wavelet
summation).
• No matter how much theory is modified for heat, fast or
slow, seismologists will be dead in the water with any
theory of the earth in trying to explain Earth Transient
Clouds.

11. Types of Earthquake clouds
• There are three types of Earth Transient Clouds. All Earth Transient
Clouds form within 10 to 15 seconds from a powerful earth
transient within the crust.
• ETrC1 type is a long thin singular cloud (up to length of fault) - which
could look like a 'snake' if viewed just after formation & prevailing
winds alter.
• ETrC2 type is a series of smaller torpedo clouds that are parallel to
each other but are transverse to the fault (are 90 degrees to fault
line).
• ETrC3 type is a complex pattern that comprises a mix of wavelets
similar to interference pattern or 'Moire effect' due to refraction of
geologic structure and transient genesis (nature of).

12. Different types of Earthquake clouds spotted

13. Are these clouds accurate predictors?
• Although these sudden forming clouds are caused
by powerful transient energy in the crust - and the
transient energy is a true genesis process to
earthquakes, not all transient series generate the
'traditional earthquake'. A form of an undetectable
'silent quake' does occur from this energy.
• These clouds may occur from the earth transients,
but they do not mean an earthquake will always
follow.

14. So where does the heat come from?
• The source of heat is from thousands of transients in the
crust from a primary large powerful transient.
• Recording at right is from Southern California region at San
Andreas fault.
• Hidden from current theory or conjecture, this true process
explains the heat and it explains the clouds. It also explains
how the ionosphere too is energized prior to earthquakes.

16. TheConclulsion
Understanding the true nature of this energy will
answer what science dearly would desire to conquer -
the prediction of earthquakes. This understanding will
also allow science to accurately predict volcanics -
including the genesis mechanism that generates the
newly discovered 'long period' type of earth
oscillations associated with volcanic eruptions .
And yes, earthquakes are predictable.