Earthquakes, Armageddon, and The Dead Sea Scrolls On Wednesday Virginia Tech had a guest lecturer from Stanford University come to talk to both faculty and students on the relationship between the three aspects of the title of this report. Amos Nur is a professor at Stanford and an AAPG lecturer. His expertise is in the area of geophysics, or a branch of earth science that employs physical measurement as well as mathematical models. After having to switch rooms a number of times he finally began his speech, where he started of with earthquakes. Professor Nur began by talking about the Seismic Cycle and how we wanted to find out how he could predict when the n