Student predicts quake within 72 hrs

COIMBATORE, JAN 10: A major earthquake is likely to occur within the next 72 hours, though the epicentre of the earthquake cannot be locat...

COIMBATORE, JAN 10: A major earthquake is likely to occur within the next 72 hours, though the epicentre of the earthquake cannot be located exactly. It is likely to rock the places where tremors made their mild presence felt in the last few weeks. This prediction has been made by an earthquake watcher, R. Shanmugasundaram, of Coimbatore.

With a B.Sc degree and a gold medal from the NGM collge in Pollachi, he is currently working in a bank on DB Road in R S Puram area. He continues to spend his leisure time on analysing the pattern of earthquakes.

He developed this hobby thanks to his friend Anandan of Tirupur.

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Shanmugasundaram has a small lab in his house. Ridiculing the vast amount of money being spent on the meteorological department for assessing earthquakes and tremors, he said his small lab required only a small wall, scale, graphsheets and a pencil to mark the fall of sun’s rays. He does not even have a Richter Scale. “The meteorology department has been continuously refusing to take my theories despite my predictions on over 180 occasions having been proved right,” he claimed.

“I have so far predicted a little over 210 tremors/earthquakes, and more than 180 have proved to be right to a large extent. Of course, there were slight variations in the epicentre and in magnitude.”

As it was a very conventional and unsophisticated procedure, 100 per cent accuracy could not be assured by him. But his predictions went wrong only very rarely.

The rays of sunlight are marked every day at different times and whenever there is a deviation or distraction in the path of earth going around the sun, it literally results in an earthquake. The distraction distance, time and recovery to the original path point to a jerk of the earth called a tremor or earthquake depending on its magnitude.

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