Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Earthquakes / August 2004

Journal of Earthquake Engineering
Vol. 8, No. 5 (SEPTEMBER 2004)
View table-of-contents and abstracts at
http://www.worldscinet.com/jee.html

In the absence of any major quakes and in the unlikelihood of there
being many in the forseeable future I can take some pleasure in the
folloewing:
"Michael Mcneil" <weatherlawyer@hotmail.com> wrote in message

A mag 4.0 EQ in the Pinnacles,Ca area 8/29 has now moved the sequence of 4.0
or > EQ's on the various incarnations of The SAF from the lower gulf of Baja
to the Panicles, Ca area. See:
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/nc40160590.html

I am about 2/3 finished with a very good book about earthquakes, predictions,
etc.  Well written, philosophical and filled with interviews of interesting
folks---including our own wonderful Susan Hough.
"The Myth of Solid Ground"

Rick, thanks for the response... you know a lot more than I do about
amateur seismology in California... I do remember the San Jose guy who
counted lost animal classified ads...
This project involves the theory that earthquakes are preceded by

I need an expert answer for what I hope is a simple question.
At the USGS website:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/
There is a series of maps that shows roughly 600 earthquakes in the past

http://www.cheboygannews.com/articles/2004/08/25/news/opinion/opinion1.txt
You can blame NASA for the peculiar weather
By BRUCE D. CALLANDER
I have resisted commenting on this summer's weather in hopes that it would

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-08/cu-bse081204.php
British scientists viewed controversies as events, caused by
pre-existing dissenters within the community. The Swedish scientists
tended to think of controversies as a process, and of fully-fledged

Active little spot these last few days.
PennyB

http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/review_eventfiles/14086812.html
Shows the waveforms from a recent local bump.  Is there a decode for
the letters, I presume names, of the stations.
And how come CI MOP HZL knew about it so much sooner?

Yeah...big deal...it was only a 2.5....at 12:56 AM.
Was just falling asleep when something, a noise, got my attention.
A second later the building I live in moved. Felt the bed shake
and heard thump and a window rattle. At first I thought it was

From time to time the subject of a "Disaster Prepared Kit" for EQ prone
areas is a subject of discussion here.
While the nature of the disaster is different, IMHO it would behoove those
with EQ Disaster Kits or those that provide advice re these kits to take

Mining Pioneer (roughtough@coolgardie.net.au) wrote
on 2003-06-24 to sci.geo.earthquakes but I'd say it's
well worth repeating...

The next phase should bring in wet weather. On top of the thundery spell
we have just had in the UK, this would be a disaster for wheat farmers.
But it would appear that worse in in store. The deep low approaching the
UK from the west has (it seems) been written off by the Met ...