Posted on 12/29/2004 4:59:47 AM PST by shrinkermd
Now I don’t claim to be an expert on seismic activity, but there has been a series of events which led up to the 9.0 earthquake of the coast of Indonesia which can not be ignored. This all could be an enormous coincidence, but one must look at the information and choose for themselves whether there is anything to it.
On November 28th, one month ago, Reuters reported that during a 3 day span 169 whales and dolphins beached themselves in Tasmania, an island of the southern coast of mainland Australia and in New Zealand. The cause for these beachings is not known, but Bob Brown, a senator in the Australian parliament, said "sound bombing" or seismic tests of ocean floors to test for oil and gas had been carried out near the sites of the Tasmanian beachings recently.
According to Jim Cummings of the Acoustic Ecology Institute, Seismic surveys utilizing airguns have been taking place in mineral-rich areas of the world’s oceans since 1968. Among the areas that have experienced the most intense survey activity are the North Sea, the Beaufort Sea (off Alaska’s North Slope), and the Gulf of Mexico; areas around Australia and South America are also current hot-spots of activity.
The impulses created by the release of air from arrays of up to 24 airguns create low frequency sound waves powerful enough to penetrate up to 40km below the seafloor. The “source level" of these sound waves is generally over 200dB (and often 230dB or more), roughly comparable to a sound of at least 140-170dB in air.
According to the Australian Conservation Foundation, these 200dB – 230dB shots from the airguns are fired every few seconds, from 10 meters below the surface, 24 hours a day, weather permitting.
These types of tests are known to affect whales and dolphins, whose acute hearing and use of sonar is very sensitive.
On December 24th there was a magnitude 8.1 earthquake more than 500 miles southeast of Tasmania near New Zealand, with a subsequent aftershock 6.1 a little later in the morning that same day.
On December 26th, the magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck at the intersection of the Australian tectonic plate and the India tectonic plate. This is the devastating tragedy that we have all heard about. The death toll of this horrific event has reached 52,000 souls and continues to rise.
On December 27th, 20 whales beached themselves 110 miles west of Hobart on the southern island state of Tasmania.
What is interesting about this is that the same place where the whale beachings have been taking place over the last 30 days is the same general area where the 8.1 Australian earthquake took place, and this is the same area where they are doing these seismic tests. Then 2 days after the Australian tectonic plate shifted, the 9.0 earthquake shook the coast of Indonesia.
A great deal of interest and seismic testing has been taking place in this area, as the government of Australia has given great tax breaks to encourage the oil exploration.
We will be following up on this story as more information is gathered.
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The air guns were adopted to avoid the adverse environmental impacts of firing dynamite charges to get the same readings.
The guy makes a better case for whales and dolphins casing the Earthquake.
Big oil is now responsible for tectonic plate activity? If those darned Republicans had signed Kyoto and stopped throwing profits to their big oil buddies, Pangea would never have broken up...
The epicenter of this particular quake, caused by the Indo-Aussi plate diving under the European one at a rate of 6cm a year was 6 miles down under the ocean. While theoretically possible in exactly the right area, using exactly the right explosives, it's not bloody likely. This is a planet we live on, not a soap bubble. The region gets hit by major quakes and major tsunamis that kill thousands every few years. These things happen when the surface you live on happens to be floating around on an extremely hot, dense ocean of molten rock.
The effect on the whales is plausible. I think the Navy has actually done studies on this. They know a lot about low frequency noise. But a puff of air or even many puffs of air causing an huge earthquake seems a little far fetched. I do remember the Pakistanis doing an underground nuclear test and then 2-3 weeks later, there was a huge earthquake in Afghanistan. A nuclear bomb is not a puff of air.
The article should have stopped right there.
Hey Limburg.........(author).........you dimwit, try to think for just a moment, won't ya?
To suggest that airguns can literally cause tectonic plates to shift is worse than ridiculous; it's jaw-droppingly stupid. I won't even try to discuss with you the concept of "mass" involved here (HINT: any idea how much air pressure.....or noise.....it would take to cause billions and billions of tons of earth and rock to shift? or to make two tectonic plates actually shift? Hell of a lot more than 170 db, slick.........you can get that at yer average rock concert, numbskull).
How about this for starters. Maybe, just maybe, the very geoseismic activities associated with areas where tectonic plates meet would be favorable for identification (or creation?) of undersea oil deposits.
You can't fart at a high rise and knock it down. If you happen to fart at high rise while high-explosive charges are detonated throughout its structure to bring it down, take note: you didn't do it. The explosives did it. Just wanted to let you know to save you the guilt.
Read. You shall laugh.
Re Post #44
I got a response back from the author today...I laughed so hard.
He told me in no uncertain terms to go "S" off a CEO since I was so "Pro-Business" and if not to go "F" myself....here is my response---
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Email response to Andrew Limburg
Thank You Andrew for your professional and enlightened response. It isn't so much that I am Pro-Business as much as I would hunger for Truth from the Media, something that many "so-called" journalists have chosen to bury in favor of their own personal agendas. Frequently, these "Activists" have severe psychological issues of unresolved anger and bitterness.
I am so delighted by your verbiage that I am going to post it on FreeRepublic.com, the largest conservative BBS in the world; it has 60,000 members of which I am one. I think the whole world should see what you and your publication are all about.
Of course I will have to edit out some of your more "colorful" language. ;-) Unfortunately, after the edit, there won't be much "intelligence" left.
Warm Regards
Hal Gxxxx
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I truely hope I made Andrew's day..... ;-)
Semper Fi
HAH!
They all act so high and mighty...but in the end, they act like the supposed 'mongrels' they claim us to be. :P
I have to admit I got my theories substantianted a little by this episode....these wackos are just that....emotional and mental cripples.
Have I ever asked you how you came to spell Massachusetts incorrectly?
See my profile...
You write prettydam good for a tinker.
Amazing....
M E M O R A N D U M
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