{"id":3253,"date":"2012-06-06T12:43:49","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T02:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?p=3253"},"modified":"2012-06-06T12:53:28","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T02:53:28","slug":"ancient-eclipse-earthquake-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2012\/06\/ancient-eclipse-earthquake-connections-3253.html","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Eclipse \/ Earthquake Connections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3254\" href=\"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?attachment_id=3254\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3254\" title=\"aristotle\" src=\"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/aristotle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"285\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It seems that some ancient scholars were aware of eclipse \/ earthquake connections. First up is <strong>Aristotle<\/strong>. While his explanation is most likely wrong, I doubt he would have provided it without a known connection with eclipses:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An earthquake sometimes coincides with an eclipse of the moon for<br \/>\nthe same reason. When the earth is on the point of being interposed,<br \/>\nbut the light and heat of the sun has not quite vanished from the<br \/>\nair but is dying away, the wind which causes the earthquake before the<br \/>\neclipse, turns off into the earth, and calm ensues. For there often<br \/>\nare winds before eclipses: at nightfall if the eclipse is at midnight,<br \/>\nand at midnight if the eclipse is at dawn. They are caused by the<br \/>\nlessening of the warmth from the moon when its sphere approaches the<br \/>\npoint at which the eclipse is going to take place. So the influence<br \/>\nwhich restrained and quieted the air weakens and the air moves again<br \/>\nand a wind rises, and does so later, the later the eclipse.<\/p>\n<p>A severe earthquake does not stop at once or after a single shock,<br \/>\nbut first the shocks go on, often for about forty days; after that,<br \/>\nfor one or even two years it gives premonitory indications in the same<br \/>\nplace.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greektexts.com\/library\/Aristotle\/Meteorology\/eng\/496.html\">http:\/\/www.greektexts.com\/library\/Aristotle\/Meteorology\/eng\/496.html<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here are some more:<\/p>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><strong>8th Year of Peloponnesian War <\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;In first days of the next summer there was an eclipse of the sun at the time of new moon, and in the early part of the same month an earthquake.&#8221;<br \/>\n[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov\/SEhistory\/SEhistory.html\">NASA<\/a>]<\/div>\n<p><strong>2nd-century chronicler Phlegon of Tralles<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;a great eclipse of the sun occurred at the sixth hour that excelled every other before it, turning the day into such darkness of night that the stars could be seen in heaven, and the earth moved in Bithynia, toppling many buildings in the city of Nicaea&#8221;<br \/>\n[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crucifixion_darkness_and_eclipse\">Wikipedia<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Matthew 27:45, 27:51-54 (Christian Bible)<\/strong><br \/>\nNow from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour. (\u2026) And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Book of\u00a0Amos 8:8-9 (Hebrew Bible)<\/strong><br \/>\nShall not the land tremble on this account, and everyone mourn who lives in it, and all of it rise like the Nile, and be tossed about and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt? On that day, says the Lord God, I will make the sun go down at noon, and darken the earth in broad daylight.<\/p>\n<div><strong>King Henry 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>&#8220;The elements manifested their sorrow at this great man&#8217;s [King Henry 1] departure from England. For the Sun on that day at the 6th hour shrouded his glorious face, as the poets say, in hideous darkness, agitating the hearts of men by an eclipse; and on the 6th day of the week early in the morning there was so great an earthquake that the ground appeared absolutely to sink down; an horrid noise being first heard beneath the surface.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>[Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov\/SEhistory\/SEhistory.html\">NASA<\/a>]<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Finally, a modern connection spotted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.springerlink.com\/content\/y8r15x9n9qrn8upq\/?MUD=MP\">Chinese researchers<\/a>:<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>This paper considers the relationship between 21 major earthquakes(Ms \u2265 7.0) in land and the offshore area of Taiwan island in the 20th century and thevariance ratio of the lunar-solar tidal force. The result indicates that the time of these earthquakes is closely related to the variance ratio of the lunar-solar tidal force, and therefore that the tidal force possibly plays an important role in triggering earthquakes.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that some ancient scholars were aware of eclipse \/ earthquake connections. First up is Aristotle. While his explanation is most likely wrong, I doubt he would have provided it without a known connection with eclipses:<br \/>\nAn earthquake sometimes coincides with an eclipse of the moon for<br \/>\nthe same reason. When the earth is on the point of being interposed,<br \/>\nbut the light and heat of the sun has not quite vanished from the<br \/>\nair but is dying away, the wind which causes the earthquake before the<br \/>\neclipse, turns off into the earth, and calm ensues. For there often<br \/>\nare winds before eclipses: at nightfall if the eclipse is at midnight,<br \/>\nand at midnight if the eclipse is at dawn. They are caused by the<br \/>\nlessening of the warmth from the moon when its sphere approaches the<br \/>\npoint at which the eclipse is going to take place. So the influence<br \/>\nwhich restrained and quieted the air weakens and the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3253"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3261,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3253\/revisions\/3261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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