"TSUNAMI OF 26 DECEMBER 2004 AND ASTRLOOGY”

K.N.Rao

In teaching astrometeorology to students in our astrology classes I have always told them and have written it in so many research papers of mine that the approach is always three fold:
1) It is extra terrestrial because we take the positions of planets shown in a horoscope for a time, month and year which we call Ardra Pravesh Chart.
2) It is combined with the observation of winds and clouds on some specified days as given in the Brihat Samhita of Varahamihira.
3) Finally we study animal and birds behaviour and also observe plants in special seasons.

In earthquake prediction the same approach will have to be made.

In the discussion about it that took place in the Jyotish list is reproduced here.
Date: Thu Dec 30, 2004 6:47 pm
Subject: Re: [JyotishGroup] Re: Earth Quake
I have said repeatedly that earthquakes have been predicted only by astrologers because it has come down to us since the days of Gargacharya and Varahamihira. I have also said that Dr.Raman's, S.K.Kelkar's and my own published predictions are there are evidences. (see FATAL FEBRUARY in this website)

But this research should be done by a well funded institute with cooperation between astrologers and seismologists to produce something useful for humanity and save humanity from such disasters. But stray successes should not lead us into a conclusions that astrologers will succeed in predicting it always. That will never happen. Lot of work will have to be done.

In its Vedic origins jyotisha dealt with such natural calamities more specifically than with the present day trend of asking too many materialistic and personal questions.

K.N.Rao.

WAS THE TSUNAMI OF 26 DEC PREDICTED BY ANYONE ?
The answer is yes to this question. See this piece.

Some knew it was coming
http://newstodaynet.com/27DEC/SS6.HTM
E SARAVANAN
Chennai, Dec 27:
N Venkatanath, research scholar, and N Rajeshwara Rao, research supervisor, Department of Applied Geology, University of Madras.

The memories and the trauma caused by the tidal wave that washed out parts of coastal Chennai and other parts of the State yesterday will haunt the minds of the people for a long time to come.

It is a tough task to forget the damage left behind by the wave that was triggered by an earthquake in far off Indonesia. The Richter scale recorded the quake to be in the magnitude of 9.0.

What is so mysterious about the earthquake and the subsequent tidal wave? Cannot it be predicted earlier and the people be warned of it? Could necessary precautions be taken to minimize the loss to life and property? In fact, the quake was actually predicted by a team of research scholars of the Department of Applied Geology, University of Madras, with a permissible error, a week ago.

N Venkatanathan, research scholar, who is currently undergoing a Ph.D programme in Predicting Earthquake and Aseismic Construction Designing and the man behind the team working on predictions, said he had already presented a report about the Indonesian earthquake on 22 December to members of the Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi.

The difference in distance between the predicted place and the epicentre was 157.11899 km with a time difference of 28 minutes. He also said the team had predicted that the aftershocks would occur at 700 km to the South of the epicentre between 5 pm and 6 pm.

This was recorded with permissible error. It occurred at 157 km from the epicentre. That is with the error of 521 km.

Venkatanathan and his guide N Rajeshwara Rao, research supervisor as he calls him, admit that 'we didn't expect the extent of damage it will cause to the Tamilnadu coast, since we expected the magnitude might be around 7.0, which cannot damage Tamilnadu. We never expected the consequent tidal waves that would have such a devasting effect on the coastal areas of Tamilnadu, admitted Rajeshwara Rao.

Venkatanathan explained that the prediction was based on a novel method developed by the team. According to the method, when two or more planets, Sun and the Moon get aligned more or less in line (0 to 180 degree) with the earth it could affect the angular momentum of the earth and decrease the speed of rotation of the earth which could trigger an earthquake.

But in order to trigger an earthquake in one particular place, two conditions should be taken into consideration, said Venkatanathan. One is the distance of the planetary configurations and two, the directions of force acting at the possible epicenter.

Venkatanathan also clarified that by analysing the earthquakes that had occurred over the last 100 years, it was inferred that there was a role of planetary configurations in triggering earthquakes.

He added that the team had earlier predicted possibility of earthquake occurrences at 27 places, among which Assam was one, and presented a report at the International Conference of 'Hazards 2004' held at National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad.

He said the success of the prediction rate achieved so far was around 75 to 80 per cent within a time-frame of plus or minus three to four days.

Rajeshwara Rao said, 'we are in the process of refining the technique so as to achieve a better success rate for which we should have a network of inputs from various international research organisations. For this to happen there was a need for large-scale funding, which could be done through the Government. He said with these things in mind, the department had already submitted a proposal to the Tamilnadu government to establish a Centre for Earthquake and Natural Hazards Studies (CENHAS).

The department had also submitted proposals for collaborative programmes with Bulgaria and Uzbekistan through the Department of Science and Technology (DST), New Delhi.
************************************************************************

To: JyotishGroup@yahoogroups.com
Date: 29 Dec 2004 02:40:42 -0000
Subject: [JyotishGroup]
Earthquake prediction 3
Continuing the discussion about the brilliant prediction of Venkatanathan, the basis is astrological, not seismological which is based on the study of faults underground. This brings up back to the fight we have always had with physical scientists who do not accept the role of extra terrestrial forces in causing such events.

Read the extract below but we do not know if he has replicated it ever or not. The good point here is that he is a geologist ,not an astrologer and will be able to enter the den of superstitious scientists and attack them with astrological-astronomical weapons.
K.N.Rao.
==================================

Venkatanathan explained that the prediction was based on a novel method developed by the team. According to the method, when two or more planets, Sun and the Moon get aligned more or less in line (0 to 180 degree) with the earth it could affect the angular momentum of the earth and decrease the speed of rotation of the earth which could trigger an earthquake.
Yours,
K.N.Rao.
====================================

To: JyotishGroup@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [JyotishGroup]
Earthquake prediction 4
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 08:18:59 IST
Astrology is so much looked down upon that the following statement was made. Venkatanathan explained that the prediction was based on a novel method developed by
the team. According to the method, when two or more planets, Sun and the Moon get aligned more or less in line (0 to 180 degree) with the earth it could affect the angular momentum of the earth and decrease the speed of rotation of the earth which could trigger an earthquake.

Why call it novel ? It is an age old method.

When you talk of the distance between Sun and Moon (0 to 180) degrees, you are talking of New Moon and Full Moon which astrologers use.

But Venkatanathan may run into difficulty if he thinks he can replicate this theory. We examined 167 horoscopes in 2001 and we found that earthquakes could occur between the Dwadashi (Krishna or Shukla) to Chaturthi, not necessarily and not every time on amavasya or poornima though these dates are most likely to trigger off seismic activity.
Yours,
K.N.Rao.

Now see the reported instances of animal behaviour which has been reported in the press.

Elephants saved tourists from tsunami
Reuters

Posted online: Sunday, January 02, 2005 at 1513 hours IST Thailand, January 2: Agitated elephants felt the tsunami coming, and their sensitivity saved about a dozen foreign tourists from the fate of thousands killed by the giant waves.

"I was surprised because the elephants had never cried before," mahout Dang Salangam said on Sunday on Khao Lak beach at the eight-elephant business offering rides to tourists.

The elephants started trumpeting -- in a way Dang, 36, and his wife Kulada, 24, said could only be described as crying -- at first light, about the time an earthquake measured at a magnitude of 9.0 cracked open the sea bed off Indonesia's Sumatra island.

The elephants soon calmed down. But they started wailing again about an hour later and this time they could not be comforted despite their mahouts' attempts at reassurance. "The elephants didn't believe the mahouts. They just kept running for the hill," said Wit Aniwat, 24, who takes the money from tourists and helps them on to the back of elephants from a sturdy wooden platform.

Those with tourists aboard headed for the jungle-clad hill behind the resort beach where at least 3,800 people, more than half of them foreigners, would soon be killed. The elephants that were not working broke their hefty chains.

"Then we saw the big wave coming and we started running," Wit said.

Around a dozen tourists were also running towards the hill from the Khao Lak Merlin Resort, one of a line of hotels strung along the 10 km (6-mile) beach especially popular with Scandinavians and Germans.

"The mahouts managed to turn the elephants to lift the tourists onto their backs," Kulada said.

She used her hands to describe how the huge beasts used their trunks to pluck the foreigners from the ground and deposit them on their backs.

The elephants charged up the hill through the jungle, then stopped.

The tsunami drove up to 1 km (1,000 yards) inshore from the gently sloping beach which had been so safe for children it made Khao Lak an ideal place for a family holiday. But it stopped short of where the elephants stood.

On Sunday, the elephants were back at work giving rides to the tourists on whom the area depends.

German Ewald Heeg, who said he came from a small town near Frankfurt, said his charter company had offered his family -- wife, two daughters and one of their boyfriends -- the chance to go straight home, but he had turned it down.

"Our family is OK so we stay here to make our holiday," he said.

"Today, we make a safari. We go by elephants at first, then we make a boat trip.

To: JyotishGroup@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Re: [JyotishGroup] tsunamis
Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 20:15:44 IST
Japan, Chile, California, Australia, New Zealand are the countries affected generally and some other countries around the Pacific Ocean.

According to what little work we had done in 2001, I am fearing another terrible such quake on land and sea, in India, involving Assam

K.N.Rao.