Geologists say Alaska quake caused by huge rupture

Netscape News ^ | 11/20/02 | Reuters

[NormsRevenge]

Ping

[cmsgop]

Super Quake BUMP!

[Consort]

And all the while I thought it was caused by a hernia.

[calljack]

It didn't force officials to shut down the pipeline. The pipeline automatically shut itself down. Lazy reporting, whoda thunkit.

[RightWhale]

the quake could have been the first in a series of large events

Time will tell, but today and tomorrow are a time of maximum tidal stress.

[fone]

Cool science *bump*

[Poohbah]

Remember Weird Al's Living With a Hernia to the tune of Living in America?

[bmwcyle]

KEEP UP DAILY

[RightWhale]

That's a great website!

[RightWhale]

increased magnetic diffusion exhibited by the Earth’s core and the warming of the oceans from the bottom up

Magnetic diffusion. Hmm, do they have any numbers, or even a concise mathematical formula for this phenomenon? The oceans are warming from the bottom up? Even if they are, so what? This is the kind of stuff you hear from students in chem class who disappear forever after the first week.

[Dallas]

Yikes....the term rupture has a special meaning to us guys. It's something that we can really relate to.

No matter how plausible their explanation, I find little comfort..

[tubebender]

Shakey Ping...

[Anchoragite]

"It didn't force officials to shut down the pipeline. The pipeline automatically shut itself down. Lazy reporting, whoda thunkit."

That was the early report. Afterward, Alyeska clarified that after seismic alarms went off, there was a manual shutdown from the Operations Control Center in Valdez. So the article is correct.

[2sheep]

Geologists say Alaska quake caused by huge rupture

If so, what caused the rupture?

[Dog Gone]

Plate techtonics. Surely you've heard of that concept. The entire Pacific Plate is rotating counter-clockwise (which is easily demonstrated by rock correlation).

Nobody greases the wheels, though, and when the plate catches against the adjacent plates and breaks loose all at once, everything bounces.

[2sheep]

>Plate techtonics. Surely you've heard of that concept.

I know that theory.  Are there any others?

[Dog Gone]

Yes, but scientific evidence is not their friend.

[2sheep]

Global Warming is supposedly scientific evidence but has a satanic political agenda likely to end in another Holocaust. It is wise to question assumptions and traditions. If no one had questioned tradition, we would all still have a flat earth theory as mainstream.