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 ...
Then again, maybe not.
is there anything showing for chicago, madison, wi, and soetoro’s golf course?
Gorebal Warning....
the LGBLT’s have just petitioned to change richter scale to rectum scale.
I’ve been off-line. What are the four? I heard about Japan and Ecuador...what are the other two?
Rectum?
Fracking’s fault.
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.
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.
That would be author, SIMON Winchester. Darned iPad typing...
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.
'The current conditions might trigger at least four earthquakes greater than 8.0 in magnitude.'Then again, they might not.
Japan was a double play, and there was one in Vanuatu.
TRANSLATION: Send money.
Then again Monkeys might fly out of my butt.
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.
“TRANSLATION: Send money”.
Exactly my first thought. They need more money for “research”. The first millions have run out so lets scare the public.
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