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Magnetic monster: Geomagnetic field reveals increasing danger of 'continent killing' quakes

• Terrence Aym
Russian geophysicist Pogrebnikov concurs with his colleagues at Harvard and Stanford: the earth may be in for a hell of a time. Imagine events just short of doomsday and you'll have a small glimpse of the global catastrophes that may lie just ahead. Some scientists have seen this future—and the future is damn scary.As the core shifts and the erratic geomagnetic field moves towards reversal, evidence mounts that studies such as "Ultralow-Frequency Magnetic Fields Preceding Large Earthquakes" by Antony C. Fraser-Smith of Stanford University and Harvard's "Statistical relationship of strong earthquakes with planetary geomagnetic field activity" reveal the increasing possibility that massive, 'continent killing' super-quakes will reshape the current maps of the world.