Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Geology / August 2009

There was yet another small (M1.8) earthquake in the northern Catskill
mountains about 30 miles WSW of Albany, NY yesterday morning, very
near the location of a small swarm earlier this year.  Anybody have
any idea what's going on down there?

Apparently the world isn't as old as conventional science would have us
believe.
They say there is evidence of fossil records going back millions of years,
but how do their conclusions reach the demands of common logic? You have to

This, by way of the Volcanism Blog (and Tacitus and Pliny the Younger
and many, many others):
"My dear Tacitus: You ask me to write you something about the death of
my uncle so that the account you transmit to posterity is as reliable

If a house were to built on a strat containing piezoelectric
materials, that was subjected to geological stresses (plate movements
or whatever), could the resultant magnetic field be measured, or would
it be too small compared to the Earth's natural field?

We are observing some strange seismologic events at Station EHIG, In the
Canary Island, La Palma.
We are doing so, by reading data released by the IGN (Spanish Intituto
Geográfico Nacional), via IGN web site:

That show was on the History Channel today. I was interested to hear
the general timeline for the various monumental events in the Earth's
history. I did not know there were multiple events that eradicated
many species.

Life doesn't need ideal conditions for the fact self organized or evolving
systems are not sensitive to initial conditions, but robust to them.
Like spinning a ball inside a bowl regardless of the starting place
or speed etc, it still almost always ends up at the same place ...

According to Wikipedia the flow of heat to the Earth surface is 42 TW.
30 TW is explained as fission, 3.75 is due to losses from tidal
movement from the moon. I have found that 1.4 TW can be found from the
torque from gravity on Earth. I calculated this in 2005. Is anyone

While tracking Hurricane Felicia in the Pacific, I read at Weather
Underground that details about its possible landfall at Hawaii depend
on its interaction with Tropical Storm Enrique and the resulting
Fujiwhara effect (the interaction between two cyclonic vortices). The