Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Earthquakes / February 2005

2005/01/27
04.89N 82.54W 4.7 SOUTH OF PANAMA  
05.56N 94.36E 5.8 NORTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA  
08.02N 94.15E 5.4 NICOBAR ISLANDS, INDIA REGION  

I am an engineer working for the Indian Railways.We are tunnelling and
bridging through the Himalayas.These are young moumtains and with many
geological surprises.We are required to pass through many fault zones
of few kilometers length both for the tunnels and the bridges.We are

Some of you might wish to visit the National Earthquake Information
Center's "Near Real Time" earthquake list,
http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/bulletin.html
because there is a somewhat unusual cluster of earthquakes in the

I was wondering why earthquakes occur in the Pacific Northeast area
like British Columbia, Canada?? How often do they happen and what is
the rating of average?? Can they be predicted??

SHALOM
I ask you to read this letter till the end! Don't treat to my words
with indifferens. On Your understanding it will depend my fate and
the fate of my child!

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/WhosCounting/story?id=448153&page=1
Jan. 30, 2005 --  Larry Summers, the president of Harvard University, speculated
last month that there might be biological factors that help explain the
relatively small number of women who go into careers in ...

Canadian seismologist Chris Chapman wrote up his experience
of the tsunami at a Sri Lanka beach in the current American
Geophysical Union newsletter (requires web subscription).
He immediately recognized an earthquake-caused tsunami

http://www.consrv.ca.gov/cgs/rghm/pshamap/pshamain.html
and my house is in a pink area.

In Message 23, George wrote: ". . . . One thing that occurred to me
with Peter's hypothesis is that, as I pointed out
earlier, he fails to understand the basic petrology of the continents
and the

I recently got a "new assignment"... at least for me.
I daily travel thru an area only traveled by dirt roads and cow trails or
the Railroad. I cross from Stockton to San Jose traveling the least grade
route. It dawned on me I am more of less traveling along Fault Scarps most

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/01/25/opinion/main669059.shtml
(The American Prospect) The column from The American Prospect was written by
Chris Mooney.
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In Message 26, george of the jungle wrote: ". . . . A high energy
massive icy body would produce voluminous ejecta as it exploded into
steam.
Right, and I have these things exploding across a whole hemisphere,

Does anybody know distributors of geophones in Europe.
I've read that geophones are commonly used to detect earthquake, and
power down the the oven.
robert

failing earth science~
need someone's help on faults and earthquakes!!!
THANX!!

the usgs quake maps show a significant acceleration in quake activity
at Alaska and California this week with a flow out into Utah and
Washington then a pop or two at the New Madrid
Does this small quake buildup predict a major quake or does the small