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Big quake question: Are they getting worse?
MSNBC ^ | 02/27/10

Posted on 02/27/2010 6:36:15 PM PST by winoneforthegipper

Seismic shockers are to be expected, but planet seems to be more active.

SNIP

While the Chilean earthquake wasn't directly related to Japan's 7.0-magnitude temblor, the two have some factors in common.

For one, any seismic waves that made their way from Japan to the Chilean coast could play a slight role in ground-shaking.

"It is too far away for any direct triggering, and those distances also make the seismic waves as they would pass by from the Haiti or Japan events pretty small because of attenuation," Arrowsmith told LiveScience. (Attenuation is the decrease in energy with distance.) "Nevertheless, if the Chilean fault surface were close to failure, those small waves could push it even closer."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: earthquakes; geology; geoscience; trends; usgs
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To: cripplecreek

I laughed.


101 posted on 02/27/2010 11:56:00 PM PST by stormer
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To: knarf

So he decided to kill a bunch of innocent people to pave the way for his return?


102 posted on 02/27/2010 11:57:10 PM PST by stormer
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To: listenhillary

Using logic, charts and graph on the religious crowd is absolute folly. Don’t do it again! :)


103 posted on 02/28/2010 12:23:30 AM PST by Daniel II (I'm Jim Thompson, this is my brother Jimmy, and this is my other brother Jimmy)
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To: Daniel II

graphs (sheesh)


104 posted on 02/28/2010 12:25:29 AM PST by Daniel II (I'm Jim Thompson, this is my brother Jimmy, and this is my other brother Jimmy)
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To: stormer

Consider entropy if sin is not in your consciousness.


105 posted on 02/28/2010 1:29:49 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: winoneforthegipper

It’s not called the “Ring of Fire” for nothing...just nature being nature.

http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/fire.html


106 posted on 02/28/2010 4:11:39 AM PST by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: Tex-Con-Man
Well then - It is time to PARTAY!
107 posted on 02/28/2010 6:01:40 AM PST by ImpBill ("America ... where are you now?" signed, a little "r" republican!)
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To: GSP.FAN
You want weird? Ok.

All three mega-quakes happened at twenty-five year intervals.

108 posted on 02/28/2010 6:03:19 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (I miss the competent fiscal policy and flag waving patriotism of the Carter Administration)
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To: winoneforthegipper
Mark my words. Watch AlGore's lucrative international scam segue into "Global Shaking" with the greatest of ease.

Leni

109 posted on 02/28/2010 6:07:53 AM PST by MinuteGal (Bill O'Reilly: 9/8/09: "Communism is not a threat to us anymore"-10/20/09: "Obama is not a Marxist")
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To: winoneforthegipper

When planets cool down Sh*t happens.


110 posted on 02/28/2010 6:10:56 AM PST by jetson
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To: gleeaikin

Thanks gleeaikin.


111 posted on 02/28/2010 7:21:52 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Freedom is Priceless.)
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To: knarf
In haven't got a clue what you're talking about.


112 posted on 02/28/2010 9:56:03 AM PST by stormer
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To: Quix

IIRC, SOME QUAKE geologist specialist asserts that full moon or new moon/black moon—both extremes correlate with an increase in quake probabilities.

Now, if we could get these theories to the point of predicting with enough accuracy that people could get out ahead of time...


113 posted on 03/02/2010 5:22:02 PM PST by Figment ("A communist is someone who reads Marx.An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx" R Reagan)
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To: Figment

INDEED.

THX.


114 posted on 03/02/2010 9:22:22 PM PST by Quix ( POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 TRAITORS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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