Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Earthquakes / February 2005

Unfortunatley I find myself in a position to refuse to help but I see
no reason for anyone else to hold back
CAN YOU HELP?
Dear Friend,

You have most likely seen or heard about this project on TV programs
such as 20/20 and Oprah, or you may have read about it in the Wall
Street Journal. If not, here it is below - revealed to you in
step-by-step detail. This program is by no means new. It has been in

The following link has some interesting Eathquake info, using  NCODA data
from the US Navy's FNMOC site (scroll down one page):
http://www.millennium-ark.net/index1.html
There is a lot of general info on the FNMOC site:

Anyone notice a difference in Mount St Helens seismicity before and after the
Asian quake?   I was just comparing webcorders and it seems seismicity at MSH
is less since the asian quake.
I'm not an expert, I just come here to talk to them.

Has anybody here made their own seismometers?  Do you have design
suggestions for me?
I have been looking through the web at how other people have made
them, and am disappointed in how crude the detector coils are made.  

This is just to remind everyone that the contest is still on.  A list of current
contestants and their entries can be viewed at the link, below.  Please note
that some of the dates submitted by entrants have expired for obvious reasons.
Also for those wishing to submit entries, ...

Actual Tsunami pics, taken by a couple before death
CNN
Thursday, February 24, 2005
wow...

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-02/du-dwh022305.php
DURHAM, N.C. -- A team of geologists from Duke University and the Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution has discovered a grinding, coordinated ballet of
crustal "microplates" unfolding below the equatorial east Pacific ...

Its premature to guess how much of the administration's 2006
budget on seismology, but it looks tough.
The USGS overall is being held to 2004 levels, which is really a
6% cut for inflation and means about 126 positions according a

FROM USGS:
Magnitude 6.4 - CENTRAL IRAN
2005 February 22 02:25:26 UTC
Preliminary Earthquake Report

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/02/24/tsunami.digital.photos.ap/index.html
Brian

I have been banging the drum about periods of long weather-spells giving
way to natural disasters such as high magnitude earthquakes for quite
some time now.
Suppose one stands the argument on its head and suggest that large

Postal lottery: Turn $6 into $60,000 in 90 days,
GUARANTEED
I found this in a news group and decided to try
it. A little while back,

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7007250/
Updated: 3:45 p.m. ET Feb. 21, 2005
WASHINGTON - Southern Californian seismologists are organizing a center to
evaluate earthquake predictions in the hopes of developing better forecasts for

once again a high mist and fog, this time following a significant
quake, on the sw florida coast. Not that this occurence, as in
Tributsch and Daniels ICJ3 et seq., proves anything but the mist/quake
phenomena does repeat: who could ask the environment to produce mist