tuesday, October 23, 1979
daily nebraskan
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SttMoemrt says Ike Unas earthquake predicting f omrala
By DiU Graf
After successfully predicting 15 earthquakes in the
last year, including last Monday's quake in Southern
California, a UNL student says he has a formula that can
predict earthquakes within a 100 mile radius to the day
anywhere in the world. ,
Lowell Whiteside, 33, a graduate geology student
said he isn't ready to go public with his predictions
because he has difficulty, getting accurate data to plug
into his formula. But he said he has several people that
will attest to the accuracy of the formula, including
the recordkeepers at the National Earthquake Infor
mation Service, part of the U.S. Department of the
Interior.
The formula is based on sun-spot activity and the time
oscillations caused by other quakes take to travel around
the globe. Lesser factors, such as the time of year and the
moon's phase, also are used, he said. ,!
Whiteside said it takes two earthquakes' to cause
another quake. Waves from different quakes can strike a
fault, or fracutre in the earth's crust, at opposing angles
and cause another earthquake, he said.
Last Monday's earthquake near San Diego, Calif, was
caused by earthquakes in New Guinea and Iran, he said.
"On Sept. 15, there was an 8.0 (measured on the
Richter scale) earthquake in New Guinea," he said. "After
looking through the data that IVe collected, I knew that
there was a 70 percent chance of a 65 to 7.0 earthquake
in the Los AngelesSan Diego area exactly 30 days after
the New Guinea quake.'- v
Captioning enables deaf to 'hear' T.V.
Virginia Berman, professor of clinical psychology arid
coordinator of field testing for UNL's Media Development
Project for the Hearing Impaired (MDPHI), is working
with WBGH-TV in Boston to develop program cap
tioning techniques.
The WGBH Caption Center is a special unit developing
techniques for captioning TV programs. Program research
was financed by a grant from the Bureau of Education
for the Handicapped. This is the second year MDPHI
has worked with WBGH-TV in the project .
Berman works in the evaluation of the project.
"The Caption Center wanted people to evaluate some
materials they specially developed," Berman said.
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Lowell Whiteside
Also giving credibility to the formula are strainmeter
readings of an earlier Southern California earthquake, he
said. Strainmeters measure the strain on the earth's crust
The MDPHI is a federal funded project which wrks
in designing, developing and evaluating instructional
material for deaf students.
"Captioning is harder than most people ' think,''
Berman said. "It involves how fast people read, the
language structure and what the caption is saying
compared to the action on the screen," she added.
Last year's studies involved evaluating the effects
of captioned programs on 300 deaf children, ranging
from ages 9 to 16, Berman said. The usage of three difv
ferent levels of language complexity and their effect
on interpretation of programs was evaluated,
.'This year, we are looking not only into comprehen
sion, but the emotional impact of the speed of words
produced on the screen and the interpretation of
characters," Berman said , ' , . a . . '
Berman, who received her doctorate in clinical psycho,
logy at Northwestern University has been with MDPHI
for three years. -
Her .work with the deaf came as "a desire to do some
sort of practical work as opposed to clinical psychology",
she said. ' .; ;T
"I try to use some of my background in clinical psy
chology by applying it to the deaf children," she said.
The objective of these studies is to provide information
for a manual on program captioning for the hearing im
paired, Berman said.
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caused by a recent earthquake.
Whiteside said that after removing everything that
could be accounted for from 'the strainmeter readings,
the remaining readings were exactly the same as the for
mula predicted them to be. .
The formula came to him in 1974, he said.
1 was working for Russell Stover. One day I was sit
ting around waiting for the candy to cool, and suddenly it
occurred to me that Hawaii, Burma and Guatemala were
on the same parallel and that all three places had recently
had earthquakes."
' After three years of collecting data on earthquakes all
"over the world, Whiteside said he is satisfied that the
formula works.
: His next, step is to find other scientists to help him
write a paper about the formula to present to the scienti
fic community, he said. '
. The formula could be used to determine the day and
area an earthquake would strike, he said. Seismographs
could be placed parallel to the faultline'he explained, and
wave readings could determine the speed of the shock
v waves and what time the quake would hit.
Then, much like tornado warnings, people could, be
alerted and given plenty of time to seek shelter.
Whiteside's fellow workers at the UNL enginering
building vouched for the accuracy of the formula.
Bill Kelley and Jim Nelson said that Whiteside
has been right in all his predictions.
"He won't make a prediction unless he is 60 to 70
percent sure. So far every prediction he has told me about
has come true," Kelly. said.
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