~~~25 Years Ago on January 17, 2019 was the day that the man we know today as The EQ Guy began his journey into what is today a whole entire universe of fairly accurate knowledge about where and when the next Major Earthquake could strike!
~~~He had been working in the movie business in Chicago as a background actor out of a small acting school there, along with writing some "Spec Scripts" and getting to know a lot of Hollywood types when one morning he turned on the TV to see the City of Los Angeles up in flames and heavilly damaged as the result of the 6.7 Richters Northridge Earthquake that struck early on the morning of January 17, 1994. As the news came over the TV of some of his favorite Hollywood friends sustaining a lot of damage and destruction, he pondered what he would do to help them.
~~~Not able to get out there and help clean up the damage and not having that much money to send them, he opted instead to spend a little time doing some research into what might have been the cause of the shaking out there. So, he started his research immediately by going through all the most recent newspapers still being found in the recycling bag right there at his moms house in Wisconsin.
~~~Well, among a few other things, what the future EQ Guy thought stood out was that they were right in the middle of some of the most severe Winter Conditions ever on record right there in the mid-west where he was dong this! Yes, all he had to do was to look outside the door in Southern Wisconsin to see upwards of 2 feet of snow, 55 mile per hour winds, and sub-zero temperatures! It was the same for the better part of the United States that day with practically the whole northern half of the U.S. currently burried in about 2 feet of snow and what he today calls, "Severe Winter Conditions."
~~~A trip to a local library helped The EQ Guy expand his knowledge into ALL things that had been contributing to what he today calls the movement of the tectonic plates and when August of 1994 rolled around was his first big chance to test out his new theory. When a lot of the same conditions happened again he decided to write his friends in Hollywood and suggest there might be an earthquake to follow. This was due to the landfall of Hurricane John at a small island near Hawaii called Johnston Atoll on August 25, 1994 and he was surprised when a 6.9 Richters followed at Cape Mendocino on September 1, 1994! This was exactly as he had written to a few of his friends warning them, too!!!
~~~Over the years there were many of those as snail mail with a postage stamp became E-Mail, and he eventually went to a regular blog such as he uses today. That along with occasional letters to folks such as the National Earthquake Prediction Evaluation Council, continuing to keep up with all the latest earthquakes as they happen on a daily basis, and trying to read everything being written on the subject and watch about every TV Show, movie, and video on the subject keeps The EQ Guy up-to-date on the world of earthquakes.
~~~The EQ Guy, whose real name is Les Brown, also recently got his Screen Actors Guild card and has played a Registered Nurse on TV's "Chicago Med" after starting out as an "Orderly" on "Chicago Fire" and both as a background actor which he also worked as while working and living in Hollywood around the year 2000 when he was actually even in a lot of earthquakes while out there including the 7.1 Richters Hector Mine Earthquake. That one struck only after landfall of Hurricane Bret near Brownsville, Texas and then only after he went around and told everybody there was a Major Earthquake headed for them!
~~~One day in 2015 when he mentioned his work to a Disc-Jockey friend, they began talking about it on-the-air and now their weekly "Earthquake Minute" is going on five years on the radio! Now he's hoping for 25 more great years of the same with his most recent book available as freeware to read online at his blog at www.earthquakealert.blogspot.com continuing his radio show, and working as an actor in Chicago and Hollywood!!! And EQ Guy always says he's glad for all the success. . . but sorry it has to be at the expense of Major Earthquakes!!!
Thank-You Again For Reading And For 25 Great Years!!!!! The EQ Guy
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