Big quake question: Are they getting worse?

MSNBC ^ | 02/27/10

[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."

[stormer]

I laughed.

[stormer]

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

[Daniel II]

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

[Daniel II]

graphs (sheesh)

[knarf]

Consider entropy if sin is not in your consciousness.

[broken_arrow1]

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

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

[ImpBill]

Well then - It is time to PARTAY!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

You want weird? Ok.

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

[MinuteGal]

Mark my words. Watch AlGore's lucrative international scam segue into "Global Shaking" with the greatest of ease.

Leni

[jetson]

When planets cool down Sh*t happens.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks gleeaikin.

[stormer]

In haven't got a clue what you're talking about.

[Figment]

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...

[Quix]

INDEED.

THX.