I've been monitoring western quakes... Intermountain seismic belt seems to be at normal levels...I use this USGS site, which will send me an eMail upon certain kinds of clustering activity, as well as quakes over a specified magnitude.
Posted on 12/28/2004 9:57:38 AM PST by dr_pat
...Maldives President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom has spent much of his 26 years in power warning of the dangers that global warming, erosion and shifting weather patterns pose to low-lying island nations like his own.
...Gayoom has appealed for international assistance.
"We still face the threat of sea level rise," he told Reuters in a recent interview. "There is encroachment of the sea on many islands, there is erosion of our beaches."
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.co.uk ...
Excellent pic
Please clarify, I've been monitoring western quakes and haven't seen what you're describing. Intermountain seismic belt seems to be at normal levels as well as California.
Yep....that's what oceans do!
There was actually a guy on radio (I think on Rush's Roger Hedgecock show)that tried to make a case that we are weakening the earth's crust by drilling for oil......
Halliburton helps oil drillers......
The Luddites are out in force - and they are picking up more and more adherents from the left!
I've been monitoring western quakes... Intermountain seismic belt seems to be at normal levels... That fine and good, I visit the site weekly as well as the CA site (since I live here) daily. There are no discernable upticks in activity. On the contrary, things appear to be quite normal and in CA on the quiet side. So please expand upon your statement that activity levels have increased (or how ever you phrased it in your earlier post). Thanks.
guy on radio (I think on Rush's Roger Hedgecock show)that tried to make a case that we are weakening the earth's crust by drilling for oilClusters of small quakes (1-2.5 Richter) were reported following the 9.0 temblor off Sumatra's coast on Boxing Day, peaking at times concordant with the expected arrival times for S, P and Rayleigh waves.
Are you referring to seismograph stations throughout the region. All indeed did record the multiple waves generated Dec 26. If that is what you are talking about, then I fully agree that the earth was ringing like a bell as all the seismic waves bounced throughout the earth.
However, the USGS website does not show the numbers you are inferring and perhaps the arrivals of the Sumatra waves generated initial false readings until reviewed by the seismological staff. Since the sites keep track of epicenters for a period of one week, all these should still be posted. New Mexico is quiet, same for most of Idaho (minus Yellowstone Park area)and northern NV is quiet. The Utah-Montana sub map shows only 3 quakes originating on Dec 26. The S.CA, NV, UT submap shows approximately the same number of posted quakes before and after Dec 26. The current USGS postings do not support these clusterings of 1-2.5 range quakes unless you are refrain to something else not posted on these maps. Please clarify.
I guess no one told the maldives president about the little 9.0 earthquake that caused this.
I defer to your expertise, since I'm not a Licensed Professional Geologist in California.My license(P.G.)is from another state (not accepted here in CA - R.G.) and maintained for professional purposes. I am still interested in what you observed on these sites because I didn't look closely at them. I was focusing on world sites that day and not looking for US responses.
The very fact that they mention global warming in the article is they are trying to 'link' it to the tsunami. And that is all the CNS article did was say 'link' not 'cause'. If you can't admit the obvious attempt by the loonies at Reuters to constantly trumpet the gloom and doom of globull warming, you have not been paying attention. The more I think about it, the more I am convinced that the CNS story was more than fair to these loonies. Just mentioning global warming and its dangers in this article is a lame attempt to link global warming to the tsunami.
Well here in the PNW we have a good vocanic blow such as other parts of the world does and it rebuilds the coast line just fine.....somebody get this man a volcano! (sarcasm, of coarse)
Are you really a teen?
Just so I can watch my lip and stuff while on a thread.
Thanks for your patience. I just feel very nervous about posting my own interpretations of station recordings. Fortunately, there is also this post here that addresses the topic:The quake demonstrated that when hit hard enough, Earth "rings like a bell," according to John Derr, a seismologist with the Geological Survey in Albuquerque.
The frequency at which Earth rings is far lower than any ordinary bell, beyond anything you could hear. But when struck with the force of Sunday's magnitude 9.0 quake, the ringing can last for days.
Located at Kirtland Air Force Base, the Survey's seismometer continued to show weak echoes of the quake Tuesday afternoon in the form of pulses of movement in the Earth's crust every five to six minutes.
I don't want to make you feel that way. I am not a seismologist either. But then some geologists can be sticklers for accuracy in interpreting data.
The quake demonstrated that when hit hard enough, Earth "rings like a bell," according to John Derr, a seismologist with the Geological Survey in Albuquerque.
I never disagreed with you on how the ringing like a bell would be an appropriate comparison or word picture. What I did question is the association with and abundance of 1-3.0 (or what ever it was you origionally posted) richter quakes in the basin and range province. What may be confusing is that these seismographs recorded the 'ringing' and projected false low level seismic reports (which apparently were removed after review by a seismologist) and not posted on the USGS web site.
...apparently were removed after review by a seismologist) and not posted on the USGS web siteLOL, I'm a Montana School of MInes and Geol. grad (Mt Tech). Maybe thats the difference.
As engineering students, we were pounded into the state of mind that hesitates to post speculation in an area of non-expertise.
In the environmental field, part of my job description is helping to keep engineers humble (ducking). I'll be checking out you blog later.
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