Okay, it's great to see so many people here this afternoon. My name is Kojweshin, I'm one half of the Otelift Group. This is Angelica Saga, the second part of the Otelift Group. We're currently in research for an exhibition and a film in Red Cat in Los Angeles. This research and this film are linked to the broad question of the California project. What we're going to present today is some initial findings from that research.
It's ongoing but it's also new. So what you're going to see behind you are visual notes from Joshua Tree, from visitor Joshua Tree that we undertook. And then you're also going to look at images of underground car park systems in the Los Angeles area, specifically below museums and galleries. So instead of going to the museums or the galleries, we visited the car parks and never went to the museums. And the reason why we did this was because of something the Californian writer Rebecca Solnit talked about. Rebecca Solnit in one of her recent essays talked about car parks as somehow underground systems that are effectively unconscious spaces.
so that people visit them in order to traverse them and exit through them. And so in our mind, the car park became something like the evil twin or the hidden reverse of the Joshua Tree Desert. In Joshua Tree, one goes to encounter the geological. In the car park, one is in a concrete cave, but one is somehow unconsciously insulated from that geological awareness. So one is an unconscious geological space, the other is a space of encounter with the geological. And this project, broadly speaking, is of a certain kind of geological consciousness. If we say that we can characterise the 19th century
and its fantasies of social Darwinism as a broad obsession with the biologisation of society. That's in the crudest sense of the word. We could say that the 21st century is shaping up to be a century that is concerned with the geologisation of society and of history. We know the consequences of the biologisation of society, the biologisation of history in the 19th century. We don't yet know what the implications of the geologisation of society or history will be. In that sense, we embarked on the beginning of an experiment.
So, I've told you a bit about the images that you're going to see. I'm going to play, we're also going to play some audio. We're not going to explain the audio until afterwards, because hopefully the audio will begin to explain itself. Welcome to Night Search. This is March 2, 2013. I'm Eddie Mimics of the University. Joseph Adler of the Fidget Forks, NC.
We're here to join Charlotte King tonight. She was a famous biological sensitive that has been able to predict earthquakes quite accurately. She has amazing abilities to pick up and frequencies that most people can't experience. Charlie, I know you've got a lot of things that this year have really involved. I guess the main thing is the airplane predictions. So just to start out, I want to welcome you to Life Search and ask you maybe a little bit about your background, how you got first started with this kind of earthquake prediction that you've got in. So I'd like to ask you something about your background.
Okay, well, it kind of all started just without any warning back in 1979, or 76, I'm sorry. I was sitting reading a book in my living room, and all of a sudden I could hear crosshorns. And I had no idea where they were from, although I was only about five or six blocks from the river. There was no reason we would ever have a crosshorn in that part of Oregon, in that part of Salem, especially where I live. and it was a bright sunny day. And instinctively I got up and walked through the window and drove towards the river, but it was downhill and behind a lot of trees, I wasn't seeing it anyway. So the sound just continued on and on and on,
and it never ended, and I mentioned to my family that evening I had this dinner table and nobody else could hear it, and everything seemed pretty good until I went to bed that night, and all of a sudden when I laid my head on the pillow, it was like popcorns were coming directly right, just absolutely right through my pillow into my ear. And I got up and I said, I can't sleep. And I walked out in the living room and sat up home tonight watching television, which has become a pretty much a classic thing of me for me doing it because I use the TV on 24 hours a day, seven days a week to keep out the sound that I'm here all the time. And then in 1979, after lots and lots of tests, not tests by me in particular, but tests,
and I had people come to my home and run tests, trying to find out where it was coming from, what it was, nobody could ascertain what it was. I was tested at the Oregon State School for the Deaf. I was tested in Seattle at the Institute of Applied Physiology and Medicine in the Heifer, the Oppression Chamber. I moved to California in age two. I was tested in the antiquated chamber at Sacramento State University Department of Scottish Engineering and I was also tested in the Denver, California in the Thermography Fish Life and all the tests just revealed that I had an extraordinary sense of hearing which is the only extraordinary thing I think about all this and that I hear or feel changes in the nearest magnetic field, or what they believe, that's what I feel or hear.
And then in 1981, or 1980, I should say, I connected with the mountains. When St. Helens started getting active, I started getting really bad headaches, which actually started back about 1979. And I didn't know why. And they, you know, did tests and stuff, everything was fine medically. So I basically just had headaches all the time, my friends, and nobody knew where it was. I was being specialist and giving meditation and stuff. Nothing was help. And then they had the first earthquake on Amtse, Helen in March the 16th of 1980. And my head felt like it was going to blow up. And then when the volcano had the first earthquake,
the pain subsided just briefly. And I was like, oh, it's the volcano. And from that point on, I was locked into Mount St. Helens. I still am. I can feel it from anywhere from where I'm at now, nine miles away, to when I was in Colorado, over almost 2,000 miles away or more. So it's just really a connection with the earth. And what really put it all together for me in 79 was the Beeching of the Whale here in Oregon. and then were a series of sound changes that woke me up from a sound sweep, no pun intended. And I was really scared. I didn't know why. It's our crime. I called the television station up in Portland that I was reporting information to, and they said nothing was happening.
And then that evening, about four hours after the call, they interrupted the television station to talk about a series of sperm whales that were reaching on the Oregon coast. And in all, 41 beautiful giant mammal reached and died. And when the sound changed, they reached. And then four days later, three to four days later, there were four modern earthquakes at Big Bear, California. And it just all clicked for me at that point. And I knew that I was feeling earthquakes, at least in the United States. I didn't know too much about other areas yet. And as time progressed, I not only had sound changes, but I also have physical symptoms. And each part of my body is tied into a different
geographical location. And I'm not unique in this. The only unique thing is I was able to put it together because there are hundreds of thousands or maybe even hundreds of thousands of people out there that feel these things. They just don't know what they're feeling. And some can hear some things, some can feel some things, some do both, very few do both. Most people that hear it hear it in a higher frequency, whereas I hear in the subsonic sound level, which most people do not, although there are a couple people that do. And it doesn't matter if you're in Oregon, or in Tennessee, or in Wyoming, or in Japan, or China, or Chile. It doesn't make any difference. The sounds and the symptoms are almost always safe. And that way you can identify where the next event is going to take place.
Let me ask you, of course, the tsunami hit Japan a couple years ago and destroyed the Fukushima use of the active. Did you figure out all that? Oh absolutely. There was about three days of precursor activity for that. Japan has always left shoulder blade pain and if it's over a 6, which obviously this was, it's sharp, jabby heart pain on the left side of the chest. It feels like a nut going in and out, just sharp, little jabby and quite uncomfortable but not severe. And also animals react to Japan.
If it's over a thick, cats start vomiting, mostly furballs, but after a while it's not even furballs. And when you have one cat that throws up a furball, as you know, that's not a big deal. But when you have all of your cats doing it at the same time, then it is a big deal. I also have ants that I keep a very close watch on. They're my kind of backup precursor group here. And before the quake in Japan, they were climbing up the wall in droves, literally thousands of them, and up over the ceiling, they just don't want to be underground at all. And the morning of the earthquake, I went to go to work. I was still working at that time. Opened the garage door, and the whole driveway, I was about to say the whole driveway, like that sink, the whole driveway was coated, but the whole driveway surface was littered
with dozens of earthworms that had crawled out of the ground. And I said, uh-oh. And so I went on to work and had to move a wrench up before I backed my car out. And I went on to work and then when I got to work and parked the car, I was still sitting there trying to assimilate, but I had seen and knew what was going to happen. And I went to go upstairs into the office and there are four steps going up that are concrete, didn't have the landing and closed the door and the earthworms had climbed those four concrete stairs that were built along the bottom steps and they had made it all the way to the top landing and were laying all over the landing up there just to get away from the ground and that's when i got permission to go out to my car get my laptop out and put out and order it
for Japan. Oh no, just a few hours. I had already been putting the alert out to my group for several days but Japan was really doing something. But this is my head's up, kind of a warning shot that I sent out that we're in a timeline now. It's going to happen to spend 12 hours Okay, I had to ask you just, you've been doing earthquake predictions based on these kind of biological signals since what, 1980 or what? 1970. And how accurate can, if you don't mind, the fundamental track record of success?
Oh no, not at all. Obviously I've not been 100 percent. Some of the great big ones that I thought were going to happen were maybe they're too late. There's been three times or four times that I've missed one, but then the precursors continued and then it did show up. So it wasn't that it didn't happen. The precursors that I watched continued to happen. So it moved the timeline out accordingly. My group knows how that works. So, but it's just each time you have an event, you move the timeline out another day or two beyond what the timeline was originally set on. and it's kind of hard to explain but anyway that's what I do and I always say ahead of time you know the timeline when it's going to be
Mount Sinai I'm 100% Japan I'm 100% Mexico I'm 100% Oregon I'm 100% Chile I'm definitely 100% There's, you can't remove them. Okay. I was going to say, it's never fatal that you have strong precursors of either the biological symptoms or other precursors that you know about, that it's never fatal to occur, a place to place somewhere in the NGD. That's right. But then a few days. And sometimes when I have victims, I can tell you where the quake is going to be, the general area. When I go by observation and timeline, then it's not always easy to tell what's going to happen.
Well, if you have questions, all of them now, maybe we have since you sent out alerts to these people, since we've mentioned that, why don't you give out your information how people could subscribe to your newsletter and be on the list? Okay, well my email address is just very simple, Charking, that's C-H-A-R-K-I-N-G, at Pfizer, that's Celifictor, I, that's like Sam, E-R, dot net. If you can't remember that, just look up the Charking Effect, with an E, effect, and it will give you enough links there to find my website and link to that and get my email address off of there. And while I'm on here, my phone is always open.
If you have an observation, if you have a symptom, if you have a concern, always feel free to call me 24 hours a day. If I'm available, I will pick it up. And my phone is Gary, call 503-999-5745. And don't worry about calling and waking me up at 2 or 3 in the morning if you're sick Because the Thursday night is going already up? Hear that number one more time. 503-999-5745. And be real careful when you dial that at 2 or 3 in the morning, because people don't like it, it goes up. You dial them. Oh, boy. I've got to ask this now.
Is there anything right now going on with precursors that indicate to identify some way to play in some place in the world. Well, we're expecting, we're expecting, Oregon is starting a little bit because the vision's getting really bad and Oregon is really vision. And I'm not concerned, it's probably an aftershock that's 5.1 we had a couple days ago. And left, lower ribs, back, occurring again in that Oceania, probably New Zealand, Australia, that area. that said they're also different aftershock, but that's the area that's been real uncomfortable lately. And my right knee and hip and leg has been hurting in that through Brazil and Colombia.
And when you have really strong precursors, that always indicates the place at least 7 point or higher, right? No, no, no. The precursors that I'm taking up could be anywhere from a 4.5 to higher. The ones that are bigger than a 7 are observations I watch on the internet that I see happening, and when I see these particular events happen, I know what they mean, and then I start my timeline out for a 7 or greater place. Those plates, I have to say very honestly, to my greatest, to my best knowledge, are not natural plates. That's one of the questions I was hoping you would touch on.
Since you did mention that, why don't we go back to the tsunami of Japan and Fukushima disaster and talk about how that might have come about. I don't know how it came about. All I know is that it started back way before internet in 95. I was in contact with someone who is no longer living, who used to monitor all the frequencies. And each time I would call him and tell him I was expected to quake, they sent him a hearing and told him when I thought it was going to happen. and then it did happen, and I would call him back. He said, Charlotte, he said, every one of those quakes that you have called me about
has the same man-made signal that shows up for up to eight hours or longer before the earthquake happens. Are we talking about maybe the heart being involved in this, or some other technology? I don't know. I know. I do not think that is heart. Heart is high frequency. High frequency doesn't bother me. it's lower frequency. And the lower the frequency, the longer the way, the further it travels. That also the more damage to it. 5th March 2013. The journal Nature reports that the earthquake that rocked Tohoku on the northeastern coast
coast of Japan in 2011, March 11, was so powerful that its rumble could be heard from space. Scientists in France and in the Netherlands have found that sound waves from the Great Tohoku earthquake reached as far as an orbiting satellite 260 kilometres above the Earth. Earthquakes make the ground resound like a giant subwoofer, generating seismic waves that travel through the Earth, and to a lesser extent, acoustic waves that travel through the air. The best candidate for hearing the earthquake turns out to be the Gravity Field and Steady State Ocean Circulation Explorer, or GOCE.
GEOCE orbits Earth at an altitude of 260 kilometres and was designed by the European Space Agency to monitor tiny variations in gravity over the Earth's surface using six accelerometers. Rafael Garcia, a physicist at the University of Toulouse, together with his colleagues, colleagues used a computer model to filter out atmospheric dynamics such as gravity waves emanating from the polar region that were unrelated to the earthquake-borne infrasound. The results published last month in geophysical research letters reveal clear infrasound signals from the Tohoku quake.
GOCE detected an acoustic wave of frequency 14 mHz about half an hour after the quake and another at 6 mHz about one hour afterwards. In effect, the detection makes GOCE the first orbiting seismometer. The work opens up the possibility of dedicated seismometer satellites that could monitor earthquakes in remote places, such as the middle of an ocean. The prospect of orbital prediction and satellite forecasting opens up a relation between outer space and inner Earth. And from this perspective, and from this relation between outer space and inner Earth,
and deep sea, what becomes thinkable? The earthquake is the event in which the planetary unconscious, as Sabu Koso calls it, becomes visible, audible and sensible. The moment in which the tectonic forces of the earth are suffered, endured and inhabited. inhabited. This moment of geological apprehension enters into and is entangled with the infrastructural unconscious of water, sewage, electricity, flood control, transport and communication. The planetary surface is revealed as a volume, as a depth, as a series of waves that enters into the thin crust of concrete called architecture, weaponising the cast concrete of public housing and underground
car parks, splintering the financially segregated ethnic enclaves of California's urban ecologies. Within the state of California, geophysical, seismic and tectonic energies are concentrated along the San Andreas Fault. The San Andreas Fault is roughly 800 miles, an 800-mile tectonic feature that cuts diagonally across the state of California from the coastal split of Cape Mendocino, 200 miles north of San Francisco, to the desert shores of the Salton Sea near the US-Mexico border. Geologists describe the San Andreas Fault as a, quote, transform fault,
which marks a stark and exposed division between the North American and Pacific Plates. It's a landscape on the move. It's one of the least stable parts of the Earth. In the words of the paleontologist Richard Forte, in his book Earth, an Intimate History, the San Andreas Fault is, quote, one of several faults that make up a complex of potential catastrophes. Seismologists estimate that in just one million years' time, the two opposing sides of the front would have slid past one another to the extent of physically sealing shut the entrance to San Francisco Bay. At the other end of the state, Los Angeles will have been dragged more than 15 miles
north of its present position. As Jeff Maynall writes in his building blog entry, San Andreas, Architecture for the Fault, San Andreas can be understood as a permanent sliding scar. A scar cutting through heavily urbanised areas. Splitting the San Francisco Peninsula in two. Slicing through the suburbs. Cleaving through mountains, farms, ranches and rail yards. A million years from now, the movement of the plates will violently and unrecognisably distort Californian geography. For generations then, this apprehension of the potential, latent and dormant force of the seismic has attracted equal parts scientific fascination and popular culture.
The popular imagination of disaster understands the San Andreas Fault to be the inevitable source of the big one, the impending super earthquake that will devastate California, flattening San Francisco and felling bridges, houses and roads throughout greater Los Angeles. 1987, 1st of October. A magnitude 5.9 earthquake kills eight people and wrecks scores of older buildings in Richard Nixon's hometown of Whitea, southeast of LA. Seismological analysis reveals that the earthquake was caused by a previously unknown thrust fault underlying the nearby Puente Hill.
Later studies revealed that the same fault extended northward under the Elysian hills into downtown Los Angeles Geophysical evidence suggests the existence of a dense thicket of what seismologists call blind or buried thrust faults that lie under the very heart of the metropolis of Los Angeles As Mike Davis writes in Ecology of Fear Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster, the Wittenarrows Earthquake of 1987. The earthquake raises the possibility that the principal source of future earthquakes in the Los Angeles metropolitan area does not come from what seismologists call
the strike slip and reverse faults prominent at the surface. The San Andreas Fault is the most prominent of the strike slip and reverse fault. structures. Its scale and magnitude mean that it is visible from space. What the Whittier-Narrows disaster of 1987 revealed was that earthquakes or temblors, as they are also known, can be produced by blind or buried thrusts that are intimately coupled to the development of what are called subsurface folds. While disaster planners in California were and are still largely focused on the danger of the big one, the major earthquake, on the San Andreas Fault, geologists have shifted their attention towards the study of the fault system.
The fault system is the communicating system of more than 50 active faults that are buried directly underneath the heavily urbanized portions of Los Angeles, Orange and Ventura counties As Lucy Jones, the United States Geological Survey seismologist whose role it is to explain the bad news to the southern Californian public explained after the Whittier earthquake of 1987 We probably have a close to comparable hazard over the whole region. That view is probably more suitable than finding individual fault strands and saying we need to worry about this one and we need to worry about that one, especially when all the strands are going to add up to most of the Los Angeles basin.
As Mike Davis suggests, the implications of this are that the entire metropolis of Los Angeles must be understood, at least in theory, as an epicentre. There is no longer a fault line that threatens and promises to unleash an earthquake. Instead, in this perspective, there is an epicentral landscape that produces a massively distributed, destructive quake. The prospect of the quake, in both of its anticipated versions, is ameliorated by the accompanying ability to calculate the regularity of the behaviour of faults. Most seismologists believe that the assumed regularity of fault behaviour
would someday make earthquake prediction and earthquake forecasting possible within reasonably narrow time bands. In 1990, the geophysicist Wayne Thatcher publishes the essay Order and Diversity in the Modes of Circumpacific Earthquake Occurrence. Thatcher's essay provoked a fundamental reconsideration of the predictability of major earthquakes. He claims that the great earthquakes are unique historical events with variable rather than constant parameters that cannot be predicted by simple extrapolation from recent fault history. And what preoccupies us in our research is the implications of this move from predictability to variability.
What becomes psychologically present for the state's residents in ways that are only vaguely understood? Who does the Earth think it is? What emerges psychically in the dimension of the popular and the vernacular when scientific prediction discovers variability rather than predictability? What becomes thinkable at the moment when seismic activity is reconsidered, not only within the sliding scar of the San Andreas Fault, but within a fault system that spreads itself laterally underneath the thin crust that is Los Angeles. What happens when the scientific calculation of prediction of seismic activity is multiplied by modes of premonition and prophecy?
What possibility space is produced by practices of apprehension? Modes of forethought, which are practiced by... Public amateurs. Self-trained geophilosophers. Eccentric geoscientists. Pseudoscientists. Folklorists. Cranks. Autodidacts. Stalkers. Mythologizers. each of whom struggle to make sense of the scientific attempts to forecast the energetic movement of the planetary unconscious. As David Ulin suggests in his book The Myth of Solid Ground a book that charts the promises and impossibilities of Earth-fake prediction the constant threat of potentially fatal seismic activity has become part of, quote, the subterranean mythos of people's lives in California.
It inspires a near-religious or mystical obsession with finding order in disorder, or taking the random pandemonium of an earthquake and refiguring it to make unexpected sense. In the voice of Charlotte King, we hear the ways in which seismic energy is made legible. We hear the peculiar modes by which the body is understood and interpreted as a device, an instrument, a map. a map that not only interacts with the tectonic forces of the Earth but suffers those tectonic forces a medium that believes itself to be visited by the tectonic forces of the Earth that are made visible, audible and sensible if the body is the medium that makes the imperceptible planetary forces sensible
then we can hear the ways in which the anticipated seismic energy unfolds become experientially present as a private mythology that is to be interpreted for the public. A vernacular folkloristic geology of the skin. A seismology of pain. Thank you. Thank you.