Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Earthquakes / August 2007

These moles don't like humans, so they'll cause earthquakes!!!

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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-quake24aug24
Many quakes from mid-80s to mid-90s.  Quiet since then.
Will activity pick up?

Nice to see the NEIC present 7 days events not flooded with those low
mags from the US mainland. It is a pleasure to peruse the charts these
days.

The folks living in Peru greatly need assistance.  If you would like
to read the latest news about their difficulties in overcoming their
losses from their recent M:8.0 quake please follow the link below.
80,000 people are homeless.

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Vegetarianism and protein:
http://www.savvyvegetarian.com/articles/protein-veg-diet.php

The Earth before Peru is not coming to a rest.
Latest quake on 18 August, strength 6.1 at 2:52 UTC, is reported by EMSC at
the site of the previous quakes.
http://satellite.ehabich.info/index_speak_emsc.html

What? No mention of the Peru quake yet? Guess it's time to bring
this group back to life.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2007gbcv.php
For a while there were tsunami warnigns and watches, but they have

Searching the NEIC online catalog returns 34 M8+s in the past 35
years.
There was one year with four (2000) and three others with three and
nine

As people seem to be incapable of reasoning with the isochrons on a
planisphere, I made a kmz file with overlays of different isochrons
representations.
Hope this help some people to come out of the darkness:

(Ron B. of JPL must be on vacation fro weekly press releases.)
Last weeks JPL press release optimistically reported that
Opportunity's
solar panels were getting enough sunlight to re-charge batteries

Earth's surface is a very active place; its plates are forever
jiggling around, rearranging themselves into new configurations.
Continents collide and mountains arise, oceans slide beneath
continents and volcanoes spew.

Just back from two weeks in Bali. Geological highlights included:
Climbing Batur volcano by moonlight to see sunrise over the rim of the
outer caldera then cooking breakfast over a vent. Being shaken in my
bed by the 7.5 earthquake near Jakarta last week then seeing a huge

The quake happened about an hour  ago, at 17.04 hours GMT, UT, in Java,
Indonesia.
Location is reported as Lat. South 5.92 Lon East 107.83.
No aftershocks are reported.

FSU study in Nature says newfound turbulence in undersea mountains
affects ocean circulation.
http://www.evolutionarycommunism.com/news/n111.html
More than a mile beneath the Atlantic's surface, roughly halfway