Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Earthquakes / September 2006

If you take a look at "Fault plane solutions" slide presentation at
http://www.learninggeoscience.net/free/00071/index.html you can see on
page "Introduction to fault plane solutions" that there is this beach
ball thing with white areas depicting rarefaction in the epicenter area

Last February's M 5.2 earthquake on the Mississippi cone has already
spurred a workshop at next month's Soc. Exploration Geophysicists. Now
we have an even more unusual event: an M 6 thrust in the middle of the
basin: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Quakes/usslav ...

Bob Shannon

We're shooting an international documentary series and are looking for
contributors who had their properties damaged during the Northridge
quake.
If you're interested please contact me and I'll call you back to talk

According to the witnesses, this slide-generated tsunami was a single
wave that swept over Cenotaph Island & over the spit, where it soon
dissipated in the deep sea.
Don't subaerial slide-generated tsunamis typically consist of trains

Major earthquakes are accepted risks on the Philipene, Japanese,
Aleutian, Alaskan and Chilean sections of the Pacific "ring of
fire", and recent work has revealed their effects on the "Cascadia"
part of the ring too.

Today we mourn the loss of Steve Irwin. As the news spread reactions around
the world were of shock and sadness. Al Gore said the stingray reacted
because of global warming caused by oil companies. France offered to send
1000 troops to Australia to surrender to the rays. The ACLU ...

From: "Felix Tilley" <fetilley@cyberbromo.int>
Subject: RIP:  Steve Irwin
Date: 04 September 2006 06:32
Steve Irwin, the Crocidile Hunter, was killed in a sting ray

I know this is a holiday weekend.
Can you get time.ucla.edu back on the internet?
nmap -p123   time.ucla.edu
Starting Nmap 4.10 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2006-09-03 20:13 MST

This is an experiment, to see if one more crank can be attracted to this
newsgroup.
Dr. Turi

For what it's worth, I'm back.  I'm back in Mt. Shasta, living in
volcanic wonderland.
I've missed reading this group and hope everybody is healthy and
wealthier!  The wisdom part is too much to ask...hehehe.

Steve Irwin, the Crocidile Hunter, was killed in a sting ray
accident.  More news available at news.yahoo.com.
He had a wife and at least one child.  He was 44.
I am so sorry to hear this.

I had a most enjoyable afternoon today at Kunde Winery in Kenwood.
Kenwood is near Glen Ellen where they had the most recent 4.4M quake a
few weeks ago and fits within the Kenwood Quad on our Topo Maps.
Recently much has been said about the benefits of volcanic soils and

Found this interesting.... Some comments on it also here.....
http://www.physorg.com/news75725492.html
""By analyzing the magnetic composition of ancient sediments found in the
remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, PriBy analyzing the magnetic

Not very well reported.  It appeared in a British Catholic web site, and I
do not have the URL.
Fidel wants the last rites of the Catholic Church.  I think it is called
Extreme Unction.