I’ve been searching the internet for records of odors preceding earthquakes but am not coming up with much. Do you know of any sources on that?
It’s in the article. PM’ed Jim and John Robinson. We can do without free republic for a while. We cannot do without them.
Besides, they are friends.
Unsupported affirmation by Talisker, here.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2929117/posts?page=1
Historically, hydrogen sulphide gas has often been forced out of the ground in areas because of the pressure created by an immanent large earthquake. This was noticed in the Sausalito area the day before the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and in various European earthquakes going back as far as the 1700s, and before the New Madrid earthquake in the 1800s in Missouri.
Citation from historical observation: http://trilogymedia.com.au/Thomas_Gold/eyewit.html
This was observed in the 1900’s two days prior to the Big One in San Fran.
If this was localized, I could rest easy. Apparently it’s happening all over the basin.
Second citation, the 1811 quake: The earthquake was at night. There was a smell of sulphur in the air before the shock. There as a wave of the land accompanied by a roar, then the most frightful ....
http://www.danielhaston.com/places/caney-fork/crouch/07-earthquake.htm