Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Earthquakes / September 2004

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Cant seem to fond any reports of damage on this one.

When
   This NG has a "where", the next M7.5+, contest, why not a "when"
guessing game.  Lets drop the magnitude to 7+.  The prize is a
trillion ton asteroid, delivery not included.

Hi All. Here is a list of past quakes within a 10-mile radius of the
most recent swarm of quakes north of Long Valley Caldera. I looked for
all quakes from M>1.0 with no max. I decided to use only those that
were M>4.0 and larger to keep the bandwidth used to a minimum.

A 5.5 mag EQ near Bali, Indonesia has killed 1. See:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1539&e=2&u=/afp/20040915/sc_afp/
indonesia_quake_040915121217
Per the above story the fatality was a construction worker injured/killed
while working on a building under construction ...

In light of the twin 7's this week near Japan, I thought it was time
to run our update on who said where.  There's still time to add more
entries to the list...Petra
George - Indonesia

Now THIS is science.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3625770.stm
"In a remote valley in California, a unique scientific experiment is
unfolding.

Once more no readings given in the NEIC list for the supposed nuclear
event in North Korea. Must have been a bomb then.

They are a real danger and our government must track them and destroy
them before it's too late.
They are under us !

G'day All,
EQ predictions have been tossed about for many years. Some contrived from
people that are "less than balanced", and others, from people that really
think that they have nailed down a scientific way to predictct EQs. It

19 year cycle
   From 1/1 73 to the end of 84 (11 years), earthquakes occured on
the same day, +-1 day, 31 times after 18 years, 44 times after 19 and
35 times after 20.  The sample is to small to be statistically

As a newbie to this newsgroup, can someone please advise me where I can find
details to construct a home made seismograph for connection to a PC for
read-out.
Jackie

Interesting retrospective on recent "failed" prediction:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-quake8sep08,1,7500979.story?coll=la-head
lines-california
Includes comments from a newsgroup poster.

NY Times
September 3, 2004
Mysteries of San Andreas Fault Are Explored by a Drill
By DEAN E. MURPHY

Just felt the quake about half an hour ago and it was STRONG. The
house was moving back and forth for a good minute or so. Happened to
be in the middle of a thunder storm as well. Still waiting for the BIG
one though.