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About a year ago, Mark Gordon, a small town high school biology teacher in Greenland, Kansas, began to question what makes professionals in seismology think that earthquakes only originate naturally, below the earth’s surface. There had been some strange events lately that had taken place in his otherwise peaceful and quiet part of the world, making him think in a diverse way. He’d been doing his own research after school, at night and on the weekends enlisting his students to help.

Mark was starting to appreciate how our ancestors initially described these immeasurable shifts in the earth’s crust and that it could, in all actuality, be the veracity.

Today, scientists believe earthquakes are caused either by explosive volcanic eruptions or by Tectonic activity associated with plate margins and faults. They explain these marvels as a sudden tremor or movement of the earth’s crust. Mark agreed with the latter, but had his mind open to the former. He was on to a different enlightenment concerning the world under him and was out to prove it.

One reason Mark was skeptical was because the techniques used today were developed in the 1800’s. Robert Mallet, who designed many of the London bridges, measured velocity of seismic waves in the earth using explosions of gunpowder. He looked for variations in the seismic velocity that would indicate variations in the properties of the earth. Mark thought this wasn’t an explanation of reason; it was no more than a proven theory of underground motion.

During the same time period, Fusakichi Omori studied the rate of aftershock activity. His equations are still used presently. Although twentieth century exploration has increased, Mark thought the logic was profoundly outdated.

Before them, Aristotle was one of the first to even attempt an explanation of earthquakes based on natural phenomena. Prior to November 1, 1755, when a cataclysmic shock and tsunami that killed an estimated 70,000 people in Lisbon, Portugal, scholars looked almost exclusively to Aristotle for explanations.

Basically, the investigation into the origin of earthquakes is not as vastly developed as what people are led to believe. People accepted or accept the rational given, even though none of these experts were taken seriously until the 1900’s when Seikei Seikiya, a Japanese researcher, became the first professor in seismology.

Seismologists analyze these two main causes instead of looking into other possibilities, such as deviations in the realm beneath us occurring, before a quake actually happens, perhaps by another life force. And they study the magnitude of the shockwaves as a rule, which determines the extent of damage and the focus point, or epicentre of the earthquake. Hardly viable in exposing anything new in Mark’s opinion.

Typically, the great earthquakes are scrutinized, such as the 1783 Calabrian that killed 35,000 people and/or the 1822 and 1835 Chilean earthquakes. No one considers less significant ones that don’t rate on the Mercalli or Richter Scales, or that aren’t in California.

But they do happen and they happen everywhere, it’s just that individuals are usually imperceptive of them.

This past year, where thirty year old Gordon grew up and made his livelihood, he began to notice weaknesses in the high school’s foundational structure. Curious, he started looking into the entire town’s construction and became concerned with the surmountable base fractures. He discovered these unusual ruptures were occurring at a phenomenal rate, according to what’s considered normal.

There was no justification for this; the town was properly built, unless they were experiencing numerous vibrations from down below. And supposedly they were not located above a major fault and, of course, there were no volcanoes in Kansas. Underground springs, yes; however, Mark was fairly positive by now that wasn’t the cause of this settlement’s damage.

Having a degree in biology didn’t exactly make Mark knowledgeable in the field of earth quaking, but he was intelligent and learned quickly. He also made phone calls asking questions to those who were experienced, concerned and perplexed by his bizarre unearthing. The ground under them was essentially fluctuating on a frequent basis. His mission was to find out why and what could be done. This was his home and he wanted to get married one day and have a great life here. Not see it sink into the earth’s mantle.

This wasn’t the only odd circumstance in Greenland, KS. that made Gordon believe his ancestor’s theory; something unknown to man thriving submersed, being the real underpinning of th