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Why is New Orleans Sinking?	08 Sep 2005 21:51 GMT	15
Watching the news on New Orleans, I noticed a tidbit that New Orleans is sinking at 1/2" a year. The city has been there long enough to compact the sediment which it's built on. Aquifer draw down doesn't make much sense as the water table is normally so high, even
Any 'considered' expert opinions??	08 Sep 2005 04:36 GMT	4
On the latest series of quakes across SoCal?? The numbers keep climbing, and the quakes are now spreading out, some in areas where I can't EVER remember seeing them, especially in western
Daryl's dilema, the crux of mountain building	08 Sep 2005 01:42 GMT	2
Daryl's Dilema df wrote here:- http://groups.google.com.au/group/sci.geo.geology/msg/23f0c8c1e33eb5cd?hl=en& "Oh, ...come off it Daryl. The question before us, which goes to the
When Creationists attack ...	08 Sep 2005 00:37 GMT	19
In article <CY8Se.8038$sF6.819@newssvr24.news.prodigy.net>, Rms wrote: > Plate Tectonics has joined Darwinism as yet another scientific bulwark under > attack by Creationists in today's America,
Project Fact Sheet Lake Pontchartrain, LA. and Vicinity Hurricane Protection Project,	07 Sep 2005 02:41 GMT	1
Project Fact Sheet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lake Pontchartrain, LA. and Vicinity Hurricane Protection Project, St. Bernard, Orleans, Jefferson, and St. Charles Parishes, LA
SCEC site down?	04 Sep 2005 11:27 GMT	9
Anyone else having problems accessing the SCEC website? I haven't been able to get there for three days now. Brian
IMPORTANT INSIGHT ON THE 3 ZEMITE SECTS' MANIPULATIONS	04 Sep 2005 11:23 GMT	4
as promised to you Jo ! ***************** The basic question if what make people fanatics, greedy, preying, dull, stupid and mad ?
Interesting sequence now in progress in South California	04 Sep 2005 03:25 GMT	28
Interesting earthquake sequence in progress from couple of hours, close to Obsidian Butte, CA. Take a look here: http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/FaultMaps/116-33.htm In the last hour there were five earthquakes >= M 4.0 and about
seismologist's summary of Obsidian Swarm	02 Sep 2005 21:11 GMT	3
Report on the swarm: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2005/ObsidianSwarm/ "In 1999 and 2001, two other smaller swarms occurred on northeast-striking faults in the Salton Sea. Compared to those two
Swarm Alert: south end of salton sea, california	02 Sep 2005 12:06 GMT	3
It looks like a major swarm ongoing... Signature Ak'toh'di
NEW ORLEANS SHOULD NOT BE REBUILD	01 Sep 2005 09:40 GMT	3
New Orleans should not be rebuild in a such under MSL location ... and I believe it will not be... . This would be rebuilding on a grave yard, and on another potential grave yard at that.
Earthquake forecast map for California	01 Sep 2005 05:58 GMT	13
For anyone who hasn't seen this yet: A new real-time earthquake "forecast" map for California. http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/step/ Interesting, but I'm not quite sure of its value.