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“I agree,” Paul said “But rather than expecting one giant sea of the crust soe of the tectonic plates It would show up as the beginning of a new hts were not reth and breadth of thethat ran along the boundary of the Pacific or Australian plates would reat deal of water out of the way If it ran the full length, the hills would only have to be a hundred feet high and four or five hundred feet wide That would displace h water to raise the sea level in the e is, the shorter its length would need to be”

Kurt was intrigued but not yet sold “Okay, you’re in the ballpark Now close the deal Showdue to a buckling plate, wouldn’t we see a large uptick in seismic activity?”

“I’d expect to,” Paul said

“And?”

“We’re not picking up anything unusual,” he admitted “Or should I say, none of the international seis But there is so to have detected an uptick of tremors”

Kurt considered the notes he’d seen “Kenzo Fujihara”

Paul nodded “He’s a Japanese scientist who insists he’s detected a new type of seis He calls them Z-waves He says he’s detected thousands of the from somewhere in the Pacific plate boundary layer But he refuses to publish any details explaining what these Z-waves are or how he actually detects them”

“Have you reached out to him?”

“By telegram,” Paul said

Kurt’s eyebroent up “Telegrahteen hundreds?”

Joe grinned “Tough room Now you kno I felt”

Gahed softly, but Paul was serious

“The sound you hear is the other shoe dropping,” he said “It turns out Kenzo Fujihara is the leader of an antitechnologistitself through an obsession with electronics He and his followers don’t do phone calls, es in a newsprint-stylepress One that Ben Franklin would have recognized”

Paul continued “He claiical-industrial coet hiroup, sect, even a cult And he’s been accused of brainwashing people and holding theainst their will”

“Not really asking to be taken seriously, is he?”