Subj:	Re: CHINA LAKE EARTHQUAKES: PULSED
Date:	98-03-10 19:06:26 EST
From:	Phikent
To:	michael.finney@acm.org

In a message dated 98-03-10 18:20:54 EST, you write:

<< Regarding this continuos earthquake thing.  Does anyone remember the
 accounts of some of Nickola Teslas experiments creating seismic like activity
 over several square miles of New York City earlier this century.  Seems like
 someone could again be playing with Tesla's toys....
  >>

          "In 1896 while his fame was still on the ascendant he planned a nice quiet 
little vibration experiment in his Houston Street laboratory [ New York City]. Since he 
had moved into these quarters in 1895, the place had established a reputation for itself 
because of the peculiar noises and lights that emanated from it at all hours of
the day and night, and because it was constantly being visited by the most famous
people in the country.

          "The quiet little vibration experiment produced an earthquake, a real
earthquake in which people and buildings and everything in them got a more tremendous 
shaking than they did in any of the natural earthquakes that have visitedthe metropolis. 
In an area of a dozen square city blocks, occupied by hundreds ofbuildings housing tens of 
thousands of persons, there was a sudden roaring and shaking, shattering of panes of glass, 
breaking of steam, gas and water pipes.Pandemonium reigned as small objects danced around 
rooms, plaster descended from walls and ceilings, and pieces of machinery weighing tons 
were moved from their bolted anchorages and shifted to awkward spots in factory lofts.

          "It was all cause, quite unexpectedly, by a little piece of apparatus you could 
slip in your pocket, "said Tesla.


Tesla's most important contribution to knowledge, however, was the
discovery of terrestrial stationary waves, proving, according to
Encyclopaedia Britannica, that the Earth could be used as a conductor
and "would be as responsive as a tuning fork to electrical vibrations."

He was to light 200 lamps 40km away without using wires, and created
man-made lightning.  But it his more outlandish claims, documented in
laboratory and other papers held in Belgrade's Nikola Tesla Museum,
which have allegedly captured more recent attention.

Tesla claimed he could snap the Earth in two, could destroy aircraft
400 km away with a death ray, and could use electromagnetism to dump
vast amounts of energy in microseconds on any target he wished.  He is
reported to have developed equipment able within seconds to generate
millions of horsepower from the input of just a few horsepower, with
the possibility of transmitting the vastly-increased energy.