Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Earthquakes / May 2008

So. Which of the posters here who claims to be able to forecast
or predict earthquakes got this one right? And if they got
blindsided by it, how come? Or ditto if they've been lauding
someone else's prognostic abilities?

FUD.
Don't be put off by it in any of its forms. What is the worst that
could happen? In 2004, the Boxing Day disaster that started with an
earthquake at Banda Atjeh swept the Indian Ocean as far as Africa.

Can someone predict that for me?

Put in the following (Copy and Paste) and you will see the fault area
traversing from East/West through the mountains. Offset valleys and
rivers are plainly seen and the terrain, being mountainous gives a
very clear picture of how long this fault has been working this area.

to NOT discuss this latest quake in China,
like we didn't discuss the one off Japan a few days ago.

Just for fun, on a weather board I've been doing a day-by-day timeline
of the 1927 Mississippi River valley floods, and noticed today after
looking at some historical data of intraplate earthquakes at
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/research/data/scr_catalog.php that there

I am going to fix tent on tactonic plate and will call you just before
it collide with another tactonic plate.
Thank you.

With Reno being between the Lassen and Tahoe volcanic zones, EQ's in
the area are not uncommon. This area extends down to past China Lake
and the Lava Falls park in the Mojave Desert. The area from Mammoth
North to Goose Lake is frequented by many small to moderate quakes. It

Finally, finally, in Paperback!
"Semi-Mesozoic Pizza with Primordial Anchovies", a compendium of
seismological poems, many of which first appeared on
sci.geo.earthquakes from 1999 to 2002, rarely seen these days, bound

http://folkworm.ceri.memphis.edu/recenteqs/Maps/90-38.html
This is about 3 miles from where I grew up. Just west of the Meramec
River. It was a whole 2.7 mm.
People around here were going nuts. Someone asked me today how you could

This spell runs from April 28th to May 5th. I expect an earthquake in
the region of 7.3 to occur early in it. However there was a series of
tornadoes running at the end of the last spell so maybe it will not
arrive.

Do you really feel there is absolutely no connection between the
Moon's phases and position, relative to the earth, and seismic
activity?  Are you SURE?  Upon what particular statistics are you
basing your theory?

Working with colleagues from NASA, a Florida State University
researcher has published a paper that calls into question three
decades of conventional wisdom regarding some of the physical
processes that helped shape the Earth as we know it today.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/nc40216664.php
http://www.data.scec.org/recenteqs/Quakes/nc40216664.html
Brian

There is no censor. There is no keeper of the keys. There are no
rules. Post all you want to and don't worry about the rattle brain
loud-mouth idiots. There is nothing they can do. You may post
something that the know-it-all's can read. These spastic assbites