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QuakeFinder Detects Quake: Pre-Quake Signatures Detected by QuakeFinder and NASA
| Source: QuakeFinder
PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwire - June 19, 2009) - QuakeFinder, the Humanitarian R&D division of
Stellar Solutions, Inc. has analyzed data gathered from the Alum Rock
earthquake in October 2007. QuakeFinder has one of their specialized ground
sensors located approximately 2 miles from the epicenter of the Alum Rock
earthquake. The Natural Hazards and Earth Systems Science journal recently
accepted a paper by QuakeFinder which details both satellite and ground
sensors detection of three independent electromagnetic signals two weeks
prior to the October 30, 2007 Alum Rock M5.4 earthquake. QuakeFinder
detected ultra low frequency magnetic pulsations and large changes in air
conductivity near the ground during the two weeks prior to the quake. In
addition, collaborators at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory detected
nighttime infra-red signatures in the same area simultaneously from the
GOES-West weather satellite. These three signatures were compared with
normal signals collected over the previous two years, and it was noted that
the changes followed a similar timeline (two weeks) which occurred prior to
the 1989 Loma Prieta M7.0 earthquake. The Alum Rock earthquake analysis has
been discussed in California Space Authority's Winter
issue of
SpaceBound! (
http://www.californiaspaceauthority.org/spacebound-08-v25)
and covered by NBC's Bay Area News(http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Bay_Area_Centers_in_on_Earthquake_
Prediction_Bay_Area.html). QuakeFinder currently has 55 ground sensors in the
CA area, and plans to increase the network in California and
internationally, allowing the capture and analysis of more earthquake data,
thereby providing additional corroboration earthquakes could be forecast by
monitoring electromagnetic changes around fault zones.
For additional information on Earthquake findings by QuakeFinder, contact
Tom Bleier, VP of Humanitarian R&D at Stellar Solutions, or visit
www.quakefinder.com.
QuakeFinder conducts pioneering research in the area of earthquake
forecasting and is the Humanitarian R&D division of Stellar Solutions, an
award winning aerospace engineering services company located in Palo Alto,
CA. The initial goal to develop a monitoring network (CalMagNet) has
progressed into a broader vision -- to save lives by conducting research
with the aim of making global forecasts of major seismic activity a reality
within the next decade.
About Stellar Solutions, Inc.
Stellar Solutions distinguishes itself by satisfying customers' critical
engineering services needs on diverse projects such as defense-related
intelligence programs, international telecommunications satellites,
commercial imagery satellites, and NASA's planetary and earth science
missions. Stellar Solutions' high-caliber team of aerospace professionals
has decades of applied mission experience and provide high impact technical
solutions to programmatic challenges. Stellar Solutions' offices are
located in all major space development and operational hubs in the US:
California, Colorado and the Washington, DC area, and our international
affiliate, Stellar Solutions Aerospace Ltd., is based in London, England.