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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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To: BenLurkin

NASA is currently readying the release of current “conjecture” that links the earthquakes in Japan and Ecuador to fracking operations and fracking waste water wells in Oklahoma. NASA stated that “conjecture” was all that was necessary in today’s PC climate and “Common Core” educational state.


21 posted on 04/17/2016 5:21:07 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Bible prophesy comes true ... Hillary Benghazi Clinton is the "Whore of Babylon")
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To: Explorer89

You better not have jinxed us...


22 posted on 04/17/2016 5:22:04 PM PDT by Pelham (Trump/Tsoukalos 2016 - vote the great hair ticket)
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To: BenLurkin

anyone that knows geology knows these things will ALWAYS happen. it is the way the earth is shaped.

what no one knows is the when.

so go ahead and say the sky is falling.

in time, you will be right.


23 posted on 04/17/2016 5:22:05 PM PDT by doldrumsforgop
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To: Explorer89

110?


24 posted on 04/17/2016 5:33:48 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: erlayman; eclecticEel

Thanks.


25 posted on 04/17/2016 5:36:14 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: BenLurkin

They must be fracking everywhere!/s


26 posted on 04/17/2016 5:46:36 PM PDT by jch10 (Hillary in the Big House, not the White House .)
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To: doldrumsforgop
I drove by Mount Rainer today. Beautiful snowy mount jutting up into a clear blue sky. Beautiful!!

And I thought “Some look at that as beautiful and wonderful. But it really is a big hairy pimple that some day will split open and release destruction for miles.” (It doesn't really explode - but will send 30-foot thick mudflows down all the way to Puget Sound.)

27 posted on 04/17/2016 5:53:46 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: SubMareener

Just had a 3.7 in Northern Arizona. Most unusual.


28 posted on 04/17/2016 5:57:15 PM PDT by earglasses (I was blind, and now I hear...)
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To: biggredd1

Oh you mean the pucker factor.


29 posted on 04/17/2016 5:58:10 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: 21twelve

Have seen it, as my daughter lives in Issaquah.

When she moved there, I made her watch Dante’s Peak.

She now has a new respect for the beauty of nature.

Most times there is no explosion, maybe just some vapors or some flow, but that is not the way it ALWAYS acts up.


30 posted on 04/17/2016 6:08:08 PM PDT by doldrumsforgop
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To: doldrumsforgop

I drove I-5 by the Toutle just after St. Helens blew. There was still ash on the overpass and a state trooper sliding all over it, directing traffic.


31 posted on 04/17/2016 6:10:07 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: dfwgator

dfw..... rectum hell damn near killed him.


32 posted on 04/17/2016 6:17:19 PM PDT by willibeaux (de ole Korean War vet age 86)
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To: BenLurkin

Earthquakes across the world... could herald new MEGA quake, warns top scientist

...

Or maybe not warns top FR poster.


33 posted on 04/17/2016 6:21:12 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: combat_boots

Time is everything and, in your case, a few minutes may have saved your life.


34 posted on 04/17/2016 6:23:48 PM PDT by doldrumsforgop
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To: willibeaux

I’m almost 65 but every time I get together with some of my oldest friends that joke comes up.. Classic


35 posted on 04/17/2016 6:23:59 PM PDT by strongbow
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To: Moonman62

“Or maybe not warns top FR poster.”

Afraid he is correct.

It just may take a few millions years, though.


36 posted on 04/17/2016 6:24:55 PM PDT by doldrumsforgop
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To: BenLurkin

I’ll make a prediction. The big one is coming soon. But not here. Big quakes happen often - elsewhere. A big one here could be 100 years away. Why worry about it until then. We have more to worry about with the time Obama has until he’s booted out of the White House.


37 posted on 04/17/2016 6:34:15 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: BenLurkin
... scientists cannot completely discount a 'mega' earthquake because they've only been measuring seismic activity for the past 100 years.

Ever notice that the tighter the time frame, the less likely "scientists" are willing to make predictions of future events?

38 posted on 04/17/2016 6:35:38 PM PDT by kitchen (If you are a luthier please ping me.)
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To: Explorer89

Actually, the 110th.


39 posted on 04/17/2016 6:38:09 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Stick a fork in America; she's done.)
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To: lepton

Ecuador is actually number 6 of large quakes in the last 4 days. There were three others South Asia Ring of fire before the 2 in Japan and the 1 in Ecuador. When number 4 (1st for Japan in the string) hit Japan there were articles about scientists concerned of a more catastrophic earthquake.

West Coast US is over due.


40 posted on 04/17/2016 6:42:47 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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