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began to hit the wire services. Two days later, on the 14th, a larger eruption hit Mt Etna. It was the last of three which hit during the alert time. I was vindicated— but I realised I had not established a proper alert process to get warnings to the populations in the area of such disasters. I was very excited by my discovery; so I phoned my younger brother, Glenn, in Tacoma to tell him what I had found. He sug- gested that I contact a chap named Art Bell, a late-night, talkback radio host who is syndicated over 240 US stations. I searched the Web for his email address and sent a short letter to Art at his studio. He phoned me up the very next day and asked me to appear on his show that very day! I explained to him that I was willing to do so, as long as we didn't make a circus out of the info I was going to present and as long as we did not ‘panic’ anyone with what data we did impart on the possibilities of severe quakes in the US in the next few years. He agreed and said that we would be on the air about five to 15 minutes; and then we went to air. Well!... We were both amazed at the public response. My segment of the show ran for two hours! After the show was finished, I started receiving some 100 email letters a day! Art told me and his listeners that my program was just about the most popular show he had ever broadcast and that his fax, tape order and voice phone lines were jammed for the day after the show. In fact, for a week after the show, requests for copies of the show kept his order line and his fax line singing. A few weeks later, he re-broadcast my show due to popular request. Since then, I have appeared on The Art Bell Show a num- ber of times. His show reaches 12 million Americans—and, I must tell you, this generates a lot of mail and visits to my web page. The Earth is Contracting . In the middle of all this quake prediction research, I was contact- ed by Duncan Roads, your Editor, regarding a fax he had received from an Australian seismologist named Vadim Anfiloff. Duncan asked me to investigate the man and his claims of a revolutionary way to predict ‘killer quakes’ using a technique he had developed while working for the Australian Government. I rang Vadim, and we began a most interesting and continuing discourse on his work and the bureaucratic bumbling which had prevented him from warning Kobe of the quake that devastated it on 17th January 1995. Vadim has found strong evidence that the Earth is now contract- ing instead of expanding. He has been published in numerous sci- entific peer reviews and is one of the foremost seismologists in Australia. I have begun a study of his work; but it will be some time before I can say I am able to apply the knowledge he has imparted in his papers, because it is quite involved. If he is right, then the world should immediately throw resources at him in an attempt to avoid certain catastrophes in Japan and California and other equally threatened places. His first article is in this issue. I am sure that the public is not being told the full story on the urgency of the earthquake threats. Too many US Government agencies and state agencies are preparing the American public and the Australian public and the Italian public and the Japanese public for certain quake calamities in the "next decade sometime... maybe...sort of”. co Disaster Alerts Back in November, on 9th, 10th and 11th, I observed a sudden and severe buildup of temperature underneath Italy and most of the Mediterranean Sea. It was so pronounced that I had to warn the Italians. On 12th November I posted the warming. As I finished sending the posting, the first word of eruptions of Mount Etna uring 1995, the whole planet was shaken by a phenomenon com- pletely unknown to geoscience. The planet was in the grip of what I have dubbed "killer hills", which were producing a seemingly end- less series of big earthquakes. 1 99 5 e Kobe and Neftegorsk were destroyed in quick succession by earthquakes emanating O from a linked network of killer hills which runs northwards through Japan, the Kuriles and Sakhalin Island (as shown schematically in Figure 1). Killer hills also TH E y EAR tun along the west coast of the USA, weaving their characteristic bifurcating (or their ‘nexus-like’, criss-crossing, branching or forking) trail in the topography. '@) F T H E In Australia, where the killer hills were discovered 20 years previously, the quakes of 1995 crept closer and closer to the capitol, Canberra, where worried federal minis- " ters were trying to sort out who had the most credible explanation for earthquakes. Kl L L E R Australia has not been prone to earthquakes, but detailed and predictive knowledge of them is the key to, for example, locating safe places to bury toxic wastes. Ty There is, of course, a profound reluctance on the part of senior seismological H l L LS experts to explain the cause of earthquakes. In San Francisco, they were even openly admitting that funds had been diverted from trying to predict earthquakes to trying to reduce subsequent fire hazards after a killer quake has struck. Killer hills occur all over the planet and even on Venus. Now, this can mean only one thing: the Earth is cooling and contracting. Furthermore, this contraction is plac- ing an enormous and persistent compressive force on the Earth's rigid outer crust. Half a century ago this was considered quite normal, and the many hills and moun- 7 * tains on our planet were considered to be wrinkles caused by powerful contraction. © 1996 by Vadim Anfiloff But, there was a big problem in explaining the rift depressions in Africa and Eurasia GEO PROCESS in terms of persistent compressive forces. PO Box 774 This is when the concept of ‘drifting continents’ or ‘plate tectonics’ became . entrenched. With this concept, the continents were supposed to break apart and drift Canberra Saat 2601 like leaves on a pond and then eventually collide again, thus producing mountain Australia chains. But this idea never did work out. One of the big ‘flies in the ointment’ has Phone/fax +61 (0)6 258 7032 been that there are too many rifts which could not all be caused by continents in the 1995: THE YEAR OF THE "KILLER HILLS" GEO PROCESS PO Box 774 Canberra City, ACT 2601 Australia Phone/fax +61 (0)6 258 7032 12 ¢ NEXUS "The Art Bell Show" © 1996 by Vadim Anfiloff FEBRUARY-MARCH 1996