Posted on 05/25/2010 11:26:49 AM PDT by djf
I'm still looking at this...
Seismographs all over recorded an odd event about 7 hours ago.
Link to the live data (which may roll off in another hour or two, but I captured the page)
http://aslwww.cr.usgs.gov/Seismic_Data/heli2.shtml
Of course, if it were a really, really big flare all of the things that measure protons would stop working.
But I digress....
A small quake that happens locally wouldn’t show up on stations that were farther away. So if South Ca had a 4.0 or something, that’s not going to show on stations in Europe or Asia - it gets lost in the background noise.
A large quake (like the Sumatra quake) does show up on stations worldwide. But - not at the same time. It takes time for the wave to get from where it happens to far away places. Remember, the Earth is 8000 miles in diameter.
Also, as far as I understand it, there are two basic flavors of waves that come from quakes. One is like a pressure wave - the kind of wave you get like if you use a plunger in your toilet.
The other is an orthogonal (sideways) wave. The kind of wave you would get if you tied a rope to a doorknob, stood back and shook the rope up and down.
The difference being that the pressure type wave can travel through solid rock or liquid no problem. The sideways type of wave can travel through solid rock, but gets dampened and lost traveling through liquid.
And I think it was measuring these types of waves from distant quakes around the world that has led to the current understanding of the structure of the Earth.
Fragile crust, dense and liquid mantle, with a solid core.
Jack Bauer slamming the door on his way out.
Actually, Hurley and Ben had to move it again.
Desmond pulled the plug, Jack put it back in.
That would be interesting, would Hong Kong end up in the Carribean?
Earthquakes have always occurred, and will always occur, but when the events of Matthew 24 begin, it will be obvious.
Birth pains start out with the contractions wide apart, which then begin to happen more frequently and with greater intensity as a child is about to be born.
Just as a mother in denial eventually has to admit she’s pregnant, there will be no doubt when these things come about that the end truly is at hand.
OMG!! CERN has created a black hole at the center of the earth and we're all about to be sucked into the event horizon!! (I have that from reliable sources :^)
I'm about 400 miles from Tehran and haven't felt any tremors.
North Korea, perhaps?
I thought the access point was at the North Pole????
Odd. That was the same time I blacked out for two minutes and seventeen seconds and saw many future TV series populated by actors from cancelled series.
Did Guam capsize...???
This will be known as the 2010 Chuck Norris beans incident.
ROFL!! Yes, they finally put that one last building on Guam and the whole island TIPPED OVER!
The strongest signals and ones with the best resolution seem to come from Spain and Greenland.
There was a quake on the mid-Atlantic ridge this morning - reported as a 6.0
I am wondering if that quake was not MUCH bigger than they are reporting...
Okay, who broke the island????
Can plutonium burn through earth?
Maybe not "regular" plutonium, but "mad" plutonium is an entirely different matter...
That says it all, we’re fluxed.
I bet it was red matter...
Let’s just hope they don’t decide to read us their poetry.
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