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Editor's Postscript: * 8 September, Southern East Pacific after an underground nuclear test. In 1977 A couple of questions can be asked from Rise: Lat. 56.2°S, Long. 122.0°W, magni- he was forbidden by the US Government a study of the data supplied in Gary tude 5.7 at 00 27 49.2 hours UTC. from taking measurements for two weeks Whiteford's article: * 8 September, Southern East Pacific after a test. His work was classified short- (1) Do the superpowers now have the Rise: Lat. 56.1°S, Long. 122.0°W, magni- ly thereafter. ri capability of conducting a form of ‘earth- tude 6.3 at 01 15 29.3 hours UTC (not + According to data from Tokyo quake warfare’ as a result of their nuclear considered an aftershock, as far as we can University Aerospace Institute's satellite, bomb tests? tell from the data). Taiyo, nuclear testing has caused the tem- (2) Conversely, are the superpowers * 8 September, off the coast of Chiapas, perature of the Earth's exosphere (outer- using nuclear bomb tests to prevent ‘super Mexico: Lat. 14.9°N, Long. 94.2°W, most portion of the atmosphere, approx. earthquakes’ of magnitude 8.0 or greater Magnitude §.5 at 17 25 49.1 hours UTC. 300 to 600 miles above the Earth) to rise on the Richter scale? While it is true that * 9 September, Northern Chile: Lat. abnormally by from 100° to 150°C. the average number of medium-sized 20.2°S, Long. 69.3°W, magnitude 5.6 at * The satellite also showed that nuclear earthquakes (size 6,0 to 6.5 on the Richter 20 58 40.2 hours UTC. testing is the cause of abnormal polar scale) has tripled since nuclear testing Although this article has dealt with the motion of the Earth, The normal polar began, the number of 'super quakes' has relationship between earthquakes and movement, which makes a revolution fallen. nuclear bomb tests, several more alarming every 430 days, is called the "Chandler Just before we go to print with this effects are linked to nuclear tests: Cycle". In other words, the position of the issue, France has detonated the first in its + In 1974, a scientist at the National pole shifts radically at the time of nuclear latest series of underground nuclear tests Center of Atmospheric Research, Dr &xplosions. at Mururoa Atoll, on 6 September. So far, Matsushita, discovered that both the mag- (Sources; Wildfire Magazine, vol. 3, no. since then, four earthquakes of magnitude netic field of the Earth and the ionosphere 3, Winter 1988, vol.4, no. 4, Spring 1989; 5.5 or greater have struck, as follows: were disturbed for 10 days to two weeks Pulse of the Planet, Spring 1989) Earthquake Date Deaths Location 1,200 2,000 72 77 1953: Mar. 17 1956: Jun. 6-16 (5 separate tests) 1957: — 1957: Dec. 9 1960: — 1960; — 1962: Sep. 1 1963: — 1966: Aug. 19 1968: Aug. 27, 29 1970: Mar. 26, 27 1970: May 28, 30 1972: Apr. 119? 1972: Dec. 21 1974: Dec. 27 1975: Sep. 6 1976: Feb. 4 (2) 1976: — 1976: July 27 1976: — 1976: Nov. 23 (2) 1977: — 1978: Sep. 13, 15 1979: — 1980: Oct 8 1980; — 1982: Dec. 10 1983: Oct. 26 1985: — 1986: — 1988: Nov. 5 1988: Dec. 4 NW Anatolia Kabul, Afghanistan 17 33 yes yes 74 72 5.8 >8.3 WA 6.0 69 74 74 17 6.9 6.2 63 68 75 6.5 8.2 78 79 15 77 719 73 72 6.0 7A 79 54 73 6.8 Jul. 2 Dec. 13 Feb, 29 May 22 Sep. 1 Jul. 26 Aug. 19 Aug. 31 Mar. 28 May 31 Apr. 10 Dec. 23 Dec. 28 Sep. 6 Feb. 4 May 6 Jul. 28 Aug. 17 Nov. 24 Mar. 4 Sep. 16 Dec. 12 Oct. 10 Nov. 23 Dec. 13 Oct. 30 Sep. 19 Oct. 10 Nov, 6 Dec. 7 fran Tran 2,500 2,000 12,000 5,000 13,000 1,100 2,600 12,000 1,100 68,000 5,100 5,000 5,200 2,300 23,000 1,000 800,000 5,000 5,000 1,600 25,000 4,500 4,800 2,800 1,300 10,000 1,000 1,000 60,000 54 no yes no Agadir, Morocco Arauco, Chile Buyin-Zara, Iran Skopje, Yugoslavia Varto, Turkey . Dasht-e-Bayaz, Iran Gediz, Turkey Chimbote, Peru Iran Managua, Nicaragua Pattan, Pakistan Lice, Turkey Guatemala City Wenlee no 145 47 67 64 61 yes no yes yes yes yes 46 yes yes 46 38 45 yes yes Italy Tangshan, China Mindanao, Philippines Eastern Turkey Bucharest, Romania Tabas, Iran Colombia-Ecuador Al Asnam, Algeria Naples, Italy Dhamar, N. Yemen Posinier, Turkey Mexico City El Salvador Burma, China Anmenia, USSR no yes no yes 46 59 55 55 no yes no yes no 57 57 35 24 40 yes yes no no yes 16 * NEXUS OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 1995