Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Earthquakes / December 2006

Time to duck and cover.

I see that there were earthquakes in Taiwan and Scotland yesterday.
They're pretty well exactly opposite each other on the globe - could
there possibly be any connection?

Is it possible to take a layer (no initial stress) over a initially
stressed solid half space? In any case, justify the answer.

A new weapon to counter Radical Muslim Terrorism
AP- Wednesday December 27, 2006:
The United States and its allies unleashed an old weapon with new
technology to counter terrorism in the world this morning. The new

Just opened presents and my husband got me a volcano for Christmas!
One of those underwater table light display things which changes colors,
shoots plastic beads and in general makes tabletop tectonics happen in
one's living room.

The online AP story has different magnitudes for the quakes.  Per USGS,
the are 7.1 and 7.0:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/uswtai.php
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/uswtan.php

I will be changing ISP's as soon as possible.
There is a possibility that I will be without access for a
short spell. So if I should suddenly not be around, answering
emails or posts, that's why.

At ~7:12 PM today I was on my motrocycle, stopped for a red light on the
offramp from I-80 past the western end of the Oakland bay Bridge,
heading toward the intersection of Harrison and 5th. I was watching a
homeless guy singing and dancing a Christmas ballad he was making up on ...

...now meet the man:  http://www.charlierichter.com
(I'll be continuing to build and improve the site, adding photographs,
PDFs of articles not available on-line, etc, as time permits.  If you
know of any photographs or other interesting bits of Richterabelia that

A series of small earthquakes with maximum magnitude M 3.4 has caused
concern in Basel Switzerland according to the Swiss news agency SDA.
Water had been injected into a 5-km deep borehole with the interest of
extracting geothermal heat for up to 10,000 homes (this is called "deep

Here's an article I'm not sure if everyone read, but it looks like top
brass has sent some orders down which changes what USGS scientists are
allow to publish....
White House Tightens Publishing Rules for USGS Scientists

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-12/nu-nes121106.php
EVANSTON, Ill. --- New results about the temperatures of rock deep below
the New Madrid Seismic Zone in the central United States shed light on the
puzzling questions of why large earthquakes happened there in 1811 ...

A light earthquake occurred at 7:13:40 AM (PST) on Sunday, December 17,
2006.
The magnitude 4.3 event occurred 66 km (41 miles) W of Petrolia, CA.
The hypocentral depth is 3 km ( 2 miles).

This year when you're giving the gift that counts to your family and
friends it might be a nice idea to tie a whistle to the top of the
package and give them something to keep them safe in the days and years
ahead.

It seemed to me that as busy as we are most of the time we are missing
the
"big picture" in what happens around the world daily in regard to
earthquakes