Images of the benioff zone in the lithosphere using electromagnetic energy released from stress in tectonic plates
Different manifestations of electromagnetic phenomena have been reported in the scientific literature for many years, linking them with seismic events, from large to even 3.0 Ml earthquakes. Examples are pre-seismic and co-seismic luminescence, various forms of electric charge displacement and magnetic fields, stress generated electromagnetic pulses, radio wave generation by accelerated charges at different frequencies and even strange animal behavior. In this paper, we report several events of electromagnetic pulses associated with seismic events and registered by magnetometers and analyze several cases of EM phenomena leading to the determination of the physical morphology and other physical aspects of the lithosphere from passive reception of pulses associated with earthquakes.
Some Statistical Results from the Triangulation of Electromagnetic Precursors Occurring at the Subduction Zone, Related with Earthquake Activity in Central Peru
The use of electromagnetic unipolar pulses, radiated spontaneously by the effect of enormous pressure in the subduction zone, for the study of the Earth's crust and eventually leading to the forecast of future earthquakes, has recently completed a decade of research at PUCP. At the beginning, with one, then two and followed by up to ten stations deployed in three distinct areas of the Peruvian coast, data gathering and especially related to nearby earthquakes, was a rather slow process. After all these years of reporting our achievements through various papers and presentations while dealing with the scarce data coming from our limited number of magnetometer stations in Peru, we have accumulated enough cases to start a more substantial statistical analysis. Many cases of successful forecast of seismic occurrences, allowed to build up software to automatically estimate the occurrence of small earthquakes in the Lima area with 10 to 18 days lead time and be off by a few hours and magnitudes within 0.1 magnitude. This presentation, with a video complement to illustrate better the process of the “building up” of energy that will end up, in a few weeks' time, in a future earthquake, gives a first idea of the consistency of the method, applied now so daily forecast reports are obtained on a regular basis. Over a time period of almost eight years, the system allows us to get a first glance of the statistics and helps us to better understand the role of electric charges in an early warning system.
Do Potential People Have Moral Rights?
By a potential person I shall mean an entity which is not now a person but which is capable of developing into a person, given certain biologically and/or technologically possible conditions. This is admittedly a narrower sense than some would attach to the term ‘potential'. After all, people of the twenty-fifth century, if such there will be, are in some sense potential people now, even though the specific biological entities from which they will develop, i.e. the particular gametes or concepti, do not yet exist. For there do exist, in the reproductive capacities of people now living and in the earth's resources, conditions adequate to produce these future people eventually, provided of course that various possible catastrophes are avoided. Indeed, in some sense of ‘potential’ there have been countless billions of potential people from the beginning of time. But I am concerned not with such remote potentialities but with currently existing entities that are capable of developing into people.