COMING EARTHQUAKES
DANGERS OF PREDICTION.
VAGUE AND WORTHLESS.
AUCKLAND PROFESSOR’S OPINION,
AUCKLAND, Tuesday,
“The predictions made by Mr Greenspan are very vague and unless predictions of this sort are much more accurate and specific they are worthless,” commented Professor P. W. Burbidge, professor of physics at Auckland University College, when the cablegram from New York regarding the young teacher’s predictions was referred to them.
Professor Burbidge endorsed the remarks of Dr. Lyndon Bastings. The professor added that if a person predicted an earthquake in New Zealand for a certain day there would be a good chance of it proving correct as about 200 shocks were felt in the Dominion each year. That meant there was only about one day in three on which an earthquake did not occur in some part of New Zealand.
“If Mr Greenspan’s predictions dealt with the intensity of the shocks and included details of the location, weight would he given to his theory,” added Professor Burbidge, “but the •places mentioned each cover a vast area of territory.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19629, 16 July 1935, Page 8
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