Posted on 11/20/2017 7:59:14 AM PST by 11th_VA
- Slight fluctuations will release mammoth amounts of underground energy
- Next year we could have at least 20 serious earthquakes, scientists warn
- The most intense ones are expected to occur in tropical regions
Swarms of devastating earthquakes are set to arrive next year due to the slowing of Earth's rotation, scientists claim.
Experts warn we 'had it easy this year' with just six severe earthquakes.
Next year we could have at least 20 serious earthquakes, and the most intense ones are expected to occur in tropical regions, home to around one billion people.
Tiny changes in the speed of our planet's rotation will trigger huge seismic activity by releasing vast amounts of underground energy, experts claim - although their research has been rejected by some scientists.
The planet's rotation is slowing down because of tidal forces between Earth and the moon.
The side of Earth closest to the moon feels its pull the strongest, while the side farthest from the moon feels its gravity less.
That difference in gravitational pull stretches the Earth, which causes tidal bulges.
These bulges pull the moon closer or farther away from Earth by around 4cm per year.
The moon exerts the opposite force on them, pulling them back toward it, creating friction and slowing down the planet's rotation.
The time the Earth takes to make a complete rotation on its axis varies by about a millionth of a second per day.
While the rotational rate hasn't declined evenly, the average day has grown longer by between 15 millionths and 25 millionths of a second every year.
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Climate change is causing the planet to rotate slower on its axis.
In 3 2 1...
5.56mm
Trump’s fault. Trump and those damned SUVs.
Womyn and minorities will be hardest hit.
...and sex scandals among our congress critters.
The answer is — more wind farms.
Funny how the birds quickly become mere collateral damage to these envirofreaks who somehow think they are saving the planet by installing these eyesores. Hypocrites.
Additional wind farms will increase the rotational speed of the Earth and the building of the wall on our southern border gives it the correct direction like a rudder.
No longer a problem.
Those were solved by bikinis...
.just kidding...kinda.
Just now: 18.18 N 7.42 E 10km M4.7 in Niger
What are EQs ???
ROFLMAO !!! (that is sooooo funny !!!)
OMG - that could be the problem ... wind farms are slowing the earth down ....
Papua New Guinea will get hit with big one shortly
San Andreas
One of my favorites. ;-)
Grant time for geologists again?
Time to employ sheeps’ bladders ping.
The Global Slowing threat will require trillions to fight, and the worst part is that women, children, people of color and the denizens of third world shiteholes will be greatly more affected than everyone else, namely white men.
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