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2004. "In the late afternoon on 9/27/04, I heard a five-second "Back in '97 I was still trying to figure out why these right-ear tone. It had an earthy quality to it, and due to mapping movements, which I now call waves, increase every time we are for quite some time I knew this sound belonged to Parkfield, close to having a major earthquake," said Sandy. "After a couple California," said Petra. "I had never heard a sound like that for of years of taking notes and correlating them to earthquakes, I Parkfield before, so I wasn't sure what the highest magnitude knew then that these waves were in fact correlated." might be. So I set it at 4.8 and issued a public prediction on "The most dramatic by far was the Northridge earthquake 9/27/04 at 8:54 pm," she added. [January 17, 1994, M6.7] because of the lives that were lost," "The resulting earthquake was the long-awaited 6.0 occurring Sandy continued. "The Friday prior to the quake, my day had on 9/28/04 at 10:15 am, 11 hours after I made my prediction," she ended at work and I was about ready to walk out the door when I said. "This earthquake was expected for 38 years by scientists, paused for a moment because I had gotten more dizzy. As I and not one of their instruments detected anything prior to the stood there for a second, my receptionist asked me what was earthquake. To date, I have not received credit from any of the wrong and I blurted out, "You're going to think I'm crazy but LA Parkfield scientists for doing what they could not do with a is going to have a large quake within the next few days and the budget in excess of $40 million and 38 years of research." quake is going to be different.’ Petra is refining the predictive formula behind the mysterious "She of course laughed at me, but she asked me how I knew emissions that cause the internal sensation of ear tones. She has and what I meant by saying a ‘different’ earthquake. I didn't found a formula that helps identify how far know how to explain it to her that I get really distant the epicentre will be located. The dizzy before large earthquakes, but this time it magnitude 6.8 Nisqually, Washington, was a dizzy feeling of being pushed hard from earthquake of February 28, 2001, was the key north of us, which pointed to LA," she said. to realisation of the formula. "The following day after the earthquake I "The most dramatic event I have Perhaps the most returned to work and I was greeted by her, experienced was hearing a 20-second left-ear . saying 'Get away from me, psycho woman!’ tone on 02/28/01. This occurred two hours dramatic type of The look on her face and what she said made prior to the 02/28/01 10:55 am Nisqually 6.8 sensitive is one who me realise from that day on that it really scared earthquake," Petra wrote. "I heard a very her and now she didn't look at me as the same loud, highly electrical sound, much like one can feel the person," said Sandy. might imagine sound travelling through a fiber earthquake's rolling "Months prior to the Hector earthquake optic wire. Ona scale of 1 to 5, this sound was easily a five. It was the loudest sound I've heard in six years," she said. "Though I had no time to predict the earthquake prior to its occurrence, it was as a result of this event that I finally understood that by counting the seconds heard by the ear tone recipient, it measured the distance to the earthquake at 37.70 miles per second. This was the greatest breakthrough in predicting earthquakes using the method," she said. "Today, for ease in mapping, I use 37.5 miles per second of sound heard." Petra Challus has found some scientists [October 16, 1999, M7.0], I got my first computer and found a website where you could post predictions. It was the night of the Hector Mine earthquake that I posted my first public prediction calling for within 32 miles of Big Bear, 6+ magnitude, and within 24 hours. The instructions said that if you didn't put in a percentage it was considered 100%, so I didn't put a percentage in," she said. "That morning when we were jolted out of bed, I was fighting back tears." Sandy continued: "The emotions at first were excited yet scared, because I finally made it public and I wasn't sure precursory waves as sensations and can determine from which direction they are coming. interested in her research. Her ear-tone-sensitive group is how people would accept it. Those emotions shortly turned into participating in a study to determine the viability of her method. being mad, because people were congratulating me by saying "Our most promising time was last month [December 2005] ‘Nice hit!’. I didn't know how to respond to that because, in my when we had one miss and only one report expire [a prediction eyes, predicting an earthquake isn't something to be proud of." without a quake]," said Petra. "For us, that is phenomenal.” With her accuracy proven, Sandy is concerned with how others At the right [overleaf] is a recent map of ear tone rings to deal with information prior to a potential killer quake. She trusts earthquake research plots from Petra Challus. The circle centre her family with the information. "My family will periodically ask represents the location of the sensitive at the time of sensing the if there will be any earthquakes soon, but I ask them to keep any ear tone. The size of the circle represents the distance formula information to themselves because I know they can handle it and applied to the duration of tone. The colour code of the circle won't panic." represents the particular person and the tonal direction sensed by Sandy has concluded that posting her predictions isn't the way the person in the research group. All predictions are documented to go. "I've realised that posting predictions on a website isn't prior to the earthquake(s). going to prove anything to the scientific world, so the last few years I have focused more on finding someone who has the right Roller-wave sensations instruments that can detect these waves." Perhaps the most dramatic type of a= A= Sete = tate can feel the 7 are coming. Roller-wave sensations Perhaps the most dramatic type of sensitive is one who can feel the earthquake's rolling precursory waves as sensations and can determine from which direction they are coming. Sandy Awerkamp in southern California is one of these "roller wave" sensitives, and her accuracy is uncanny. Earth emissions are real For the past few years, I have studied and compared Sandy's sensing ability with specialised instruments that indeed see these waves prior to earthquakes.' Sandy exceeds the performance of 18 = NEXUS APRIL — MAY 2006 sensitive is one who earthquake's rolling precursory waves as sensations and can determine from which direction they www.nexusmagazi ne.com