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[Recent] Earthquakes across the world... could herald new MEGA quake, warns top scientist
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Posted on 04/17/2016 4:34:25 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Roger Bilham, a seismologist at the University of Colorado, told The Daily Express: 'The current conditions might trigger at least four earthquakes greater than 8.0 in magnitude.

'And if they delay, the strain accumulated during the centuries provokes more catastrophic mega earthquakes.'

In addition to the four major earthquakes to have struck since Thursday, last week there were also shakes in the Philippines, Vanuatu and Myanmar.

All of the earthquakes have occurred in countries straddling the so-called Ring of Fire.

This is a horseshoe-shaped series of trenches spanning the Pacific Ocean where tectonic plates are shifting and seismic and volcanic activity is common.

The U.S. Geological Survey, an independent agency which monitors natural hazards such as earthquakes, says 'mega' earthquakes are rare, but not impossible.

It says there is no fault line - the areas where shifting plates that make up the earth's crusts meet - is known which is capable of generating a magnitude 10 earthquake.

However, scientists cannot completely discount a 'mega' earthquake because they've only been measuring seismic activity for the past 100 years.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: earthquake; earthquakes; megaquake
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1 posted on 04/17/2016 4:34:25 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Then again, maybe not.


2 posted on 04/17/2016 4:35:02 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: BenLurkin

is there anything showing for chicago, madison, wi, and soetoro’s golf course?


3 posted on 04/17/2016 4:36:29 PM PDT by biggredd1
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To: BenLurkin

Gorebal Warning....


4 posted on 04/17/2016 4:37:25 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Live Free or Die.)
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To: BenLurkin

the LGBLT’s have just petitioned to change richter scale to rectum scale.


5 posted on 04/17/2016 4:40:35 PM PDT by biggredd1
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To: BenLurkin

I’ve been off-line. What are the four? I heard about Japan and Ecuador...what are the other two?


6 posted on 04/17/2016 4:43:13 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: biggredd1

Rectum?


7 posted on 04/17/2016 4:44:11 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: BenLurkin

Fracking’s fault.


8 posted on 04/17/2016 4:44:24 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: BenLurkin
Oh, Mega Man


9 posted on 04/17/2016 4:49:29 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: lepton

There have been three in four days, two in the same areas of Southern Japan and one in Ecuador. RIP to all the sudden, tragic deaths. And of course hoping the next one isn’t the one day I’m in Tokyo next month.


10 posted on 04/17/2016 4:49:58 PM PDT by erlayman (yw)
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To: SunkenCiv

I am currently rereading “A Crack in the Edge of the Earth: The Great California Earthquake of 1906” by Imon Winchester. The early chapters talk about a great many other earthquakes that had happened in the month or so leading up to that April 18. (whoa, 100 year anniversary tomorrow!)

Ping to the catastrophe nerd cult.


11 posted on 04/17/2016 4:52:48 PM PDT by Explorer89 (And now, let the wild rumpus start!!)
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To: Explorer89

That would be author, SIMON Winchester. Darned iPad typing...


12 posted on 04/17/2016 4:54:00 PM PDT by Explorer89 (And now, let the wild rumpus start!!)
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To: BenLurkin

If we get everyone on earth to jump up and down ten times at the exact same moment, then it will cause the earth to disintegrate.


13 posted on 04/17/2016 4:56:31 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: BenLurkin
'The current conditions might trigger at least four earthquakes greater than 8.0 in magnitude.'
Then again, they might not.
14 posted on 04/17/2016 5:00:31 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: lepton

Japan was a double play, and there was one in Vanuatu.


15 posted on 04/17/2016 5:04:23 PM PDT by eclecticEel ("The petty man forsakes what lies within his power and longs for what lies with Heaven." - Xunzi)
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To: BenLurkin

TRANSLATION: Send money.


16 posted on 04/17/2016 5:08:32 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it." --Samuel Clemens)
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To: Bratch

Then again Monkeys might fly out of my butt.


17 posted on 04/17/2016 5:10:14 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Bratch
The current seven-day, 2.5 Magnitude or greater count is 335 (Updated: 2016-04-17 17:03:50 UTC-07:00). Up until last week it was running about 180. It kicked up to 220 a couple of days ago, and almost overnight spiked to the current level.

Pretty unusual activity, but hey, don't worry, be happy!
18 posted on 04/17/2016 5:10:53 PM PDT by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!)
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To: BenLurkin

went through a 7.5 in Alaska back in the 90’s. Glad I was sitting down at the time or it would have knocked me down. Scary too, the whole house creaked and groaned.


19 posted on 04/17/2016 5:13:59 PM PDT by HWGruene (REMEMBER THE ALAMO! Really, no kidding.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“TRANSLATION: Send money”.
Exactly my first thought. They need more money for “research”. The first millions have run out so lets scare the public.


20 posted on 04/17/2016 5:18:31 PM PDT by certrtwngnut
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