What are the implications of the Gold theory of upwelling gases as the cause of earthquakes?
The most important implications center on predicting earthquakes. Gold writes: “The Western scientific view is that earthquakes are caused by the same kinds of tectonic stress that are believed to have shuffled massive blocks of continental and oceanic plates in the course of time. This assumption, coupled with the preference for data collected by precise and impersonal seismographs, means that eyewitness accounts …are usually of little interest to Western scientists, and their existence is not even known by many seismologists. In China, Japan, and the Soviet Union, however, much more attention is paid to gas phenomena. Japan even has a “laboratory of Earthquake Chemistry.” The US is far behind in this field, not because it lacks the technology, but because it took a wrong turn some time ago and is not open to a change in course. Huge Azerbaijan mud volcano flares on October 29, 2001. Azerbaijan and the Caspian Sea are home to nearly 400 mud volcanoes—more than half the total throughou
