Tests of nuclear charges at depth have made it possible not only to discover the amazing properties of the center of the planet, but also to draw some practical conclusions. Paradoxically, it looks like nuclear explosions can affect earthquakes.
On April 29, 1991, the Racha-Java earthquake with a magnitude of 6.9 on the Richter scale occurred in Georgia on the border of the Sachkher and Chiatura regions. Soviet professor, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Kerimov, who headed the geophysical laboratory in Baku, proved the relationship of this destructive natural phenomenon with the massive bombing carried out earlier by the US army during Operation Desert Storm in the Persian Gulf.
Then for the first time it became known about the possibility of a point effect on the earth's crust with excitation as a result of tectonic activity in a completely different area. However, it is worth noting that targeted research in this area was carried out as early as two decades before the nineties.
How it all began
In the early fall of 1971, the United States tested an underground nuclear charge, detonating it in the solid granite masses of the Aleutian Islands. The power of the hellish device was 5 megatons at a time! It is worth clarifying that at one time the Soviet Union tested the so-called "Tsar Bomb" of 50 megatons in TNT equivalent. However, the explosion at the Dry Nose test site on Novaya Zemlya was carried out in the atmosphere, and not underground. Tests on the Aleutian Islands led to the formation of an elastic seismic wave, which went to the core of the Earth. It was then that geophysicists obtained interesting data that, years later, made it possible to better understand the structure of the core and adjacent sectors in the very center of our celestial body. In the course of further research, anomalies in the propagation of seismic waves were discovered, which Professor Artyom Oganov told us about.
- Artyom, I would like to talk with you about one of the most important discoveries made in modern crystallography, which allowed geologists to better understand the structure of the globe. You proved the stability of MgSiO3 - post-perovskite - in the Earth's mantle, in the so-called D layer. As we know, perovskite is most likely adjacent to the Earth's core. And postperovskite is characterized by a change in the crystal lattice of the original mineral under the influence of extreme pressure. Renata Venzkovich showed that the seismic characteristics of postperovskite are just such that they can explain the anomalies in the propagation of seismic waves near the core boundary. Could you explain what exactly is meant and what anomalies are we talking about?
Artyom Oganov. There is a thin layer of perovskite between the core and postperovskite. It forms a lens. For the first time the anomalies arising near the boundary of the Earth's core were tracked and described not by R. Venzkovich, but by me in the scientific journal Nature. As far as anomalies are concerned, firstly, they are characterized by the presence of seismic ruptures, amounting to about 1.5% for shear waves and 0.5% for longitudinal ones. Secondly, there is seismic anisotropy at the polarization vector. I was able to establish that the anomalies are present either at the top or at the very bottom of the mantle. But the core itself is homogeneous.
Meanwhile, the postperovskite structure is layered. Moreover, its layer has a colossal depth and thickness, reaching 300 kilometers. The stability of this element depends on the temperature of the medium. The lower the temperature, the thicker the layer.
There is one more anomaly associated with the study of the Earth's core and adjacent zones. We are talking about the observed speed of seismic waves. There is an anticorrelation between transverse and longitudinal wave propagation. These are the properties of postperovskite.
Geophysics becomes an applied military science
Tests of nuclear charges at depth have made it possible not only to discover the amazing properties of the center of the planet, but also to draw some practical conclusions. Paradoxically, it looks like nuclear explosions can affect earthquakes.
In a strange way, after the era of the sixties and seventies, when superpowers tore underground charges all over the planet, the epicenters of earthquakes suddenly "gained height", shifting to the upper layers of the mantle. So, since 1971, the shaking of the earth's crust has almost completely stopped, with the epicenter at a depth of 300 to 700 kilometers. Now the overwhelming majority of destructive phenomena of this kind have their focus from 70 kilometers and more. This phenomenon has led to an increase in the destructive power of natural phenomena on the surface.
In theory, underground nuclear explosions can cause other phenomena that are very unpleasant for mankind, in particular, a change in the spatial position of the Earth's core. It is necessary to clarify that the core of our planet, this primordial gyrostat, does not remain at rest - during the year it moves in different directions by about 200 meters. Such a change in the dislocation of the heart of our planet in space can lead to an acceleration or deceleration of the rotation of the entire planet. Therefore, before using tectonic weapons, it is worth thinking several times about the disastrous consequences of such experiments for all living things.
Washington is ready to blow up the planet
Did the American leadership understand that tectonic or otherwise geophysical weapons could destroy the habitat of not only America's potential adversary, but the United States itself? The formal answer is yes. In the late seventies, the two superpowers conclude an agreement banning the development of such methods of influencing the planet.
Nevertheless, already in the early eighties, Washington opened the HAARP (High frequency Active Auroral Research Program), led by the prominent geophysicist Bernard J. Eastlund. The project has its own centers. One of them 10 years ago was in Tromsø (Norway), and the second was in Alaska (military base Gakhon, 250 km northeast of Anchorage).
In those years, Washington was accused of using tectonic or lithospheric weapons against civilians by the then President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez. He spoke on Venezuelan state television, Vive TV, and made a statement about a plasma generator mounted aboard one of the American aircraft carriers cruising over the coast of Haiti during the disaster. The Russian authoritative publication Military-Industrial Courier, which investigated this situation, confirmed, citing its own sources, that the US Marines did their best to interfere with the work of seismologists who took measurements in Port-au-Prince immediately after the end of the natural disaster, which, at least at least very suspicious.
Our "answer to Chamberlain"
In 1991, a conference of geophysicists was held in Baku, dedicated to the problems of possible control of tectonic processes or, as it was then formulated, "the method of remote impact on the earthquake source using weak seismic fields and transfer of explosion energy." Alexey Nikolaev, Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, spoke at this scientific event.
The eminent scientist confirmed that experiments of this kind are possible and are actively carried out in developed countries. Another authoritative expert in this field is Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Ikram Kerimov. According to open sources, it was he who was the first in the Soviet space to learn how to control weak seismic fields. Specialists from the laboratory of geomorphology of the Institute of Physics of the Earth of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR also contributed greatly to the research of the professor from Baku.
The reality of creating both tectonic weapons and peaceful developments in this area was also recognized by Henrikh Vartanyan, Vice President of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, professor at the Moscow Geological Prospecting Institute and a full member of the New York Academy of Sciences.
Unlike the United States, Russia did not follow in America's footsteps and did not create its own HAARP. Instead, back in the seventies of the last century, scientists from the institutes of the USSR Academy of Sciences developed an MHD generator (pulsed magnetohydrodynamic) under the supervision of Academician Yevgeny Velikhov. It was these investigations that formed the basis of the earthquake forecasting technique of the Azerbaijani researcher Kerimov.
The installation sends an electrical impulse into the earth's crust to a depth of about 10 kilometers. The receptors then pick up an "echo" in response to the discharge sent underground. Depending on the "answer" received, scientists can predict the possibility of an imminent cataclysm in a particular region.
What to prepare for
In the frantic race for new types of weapons, the United States does not seem intent on stopping at anything. It is known that some members of Kerimov's group - in particular, a senior researcher at the Institute of Geology of the Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences, programmer Jafar Jafarov - are working today in South Africa in honor of American weapons. Well, proving ground tests in Africa is probably even easier than in Haiti.
The threat to Russia in this area is, unfortunately, a reality. We can recall one incident little known to the general public. In the nineties, which were terrible for the young Russian Federation, the United States proposed to install 30 seismic stations on the territory of our country to monitor nuclear tests. The proposal was formulated by the US Department of Defense. Six stations have been installed.
According to the original agreement, information about seismic activity provoked by nuclear tests was supposed to flow not only overseas, but also to Moscow. It quickly became known that Washington, under the guise of reports on the work of the stations, slipped us outright misinformation. At the same time, according to the conclusion of geophysicists, the operation of this equipment allowed the Americans to draw up a seismic map for a possible tectonic wave impact on various regions of our country.
It is curious that, while spying, the Pentagon somehow lost sight of the obvious vulnerability of its own territory - for example, the Yellowstone Caldera located on it. It seems that many - and not necessarily Russian - seismologists will have no difficulty in calculating all possible scenarios for activating a supervolcano in order to curb the applied "lithospheric" fantasy of overseas strategists.
