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Big quake question: Are they getting worse?
MSNBC ^ | 02/27/10

Posted on 02/27/2010 6:36:15 PM PST by winoneforthegipper

Seismic shockers are to be expected, but planet seems to be more active.

SNIP

While the Chilean earthquake wasn't directly related to Japan's 7.0-magnitude temblor, the two have some factors in common.

For one, any seismic waves that made their way from Japan to the Chilean coast could play a slight role in ground-shaking.

"It is too far away for any direct triggering, and those distances also make the seismic waves as they would pass by from the Haiti or Japan events pretty small because of attenuation," Arrowsmith told LiveScience. (Attenuation is the decrease in energy with distance.) "Nevertheless, if the Chilean fault surface were close to failure, those small waves could push it even closer."

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KEYWORDS: earthquakes; geology; geoscience; trends; usgs
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To: HD1200; SunkenCiv; All

I think we are in for a bad period of tectonic events. I posted a fairly detailed comment on the earlier Tsunami warning thread. Somewhere in the 200 comments. Got to run for the moment will be back later with the exact number, and some other thoughts.


21 posted on 02/27/2010 6:51:02 PM PST by gleeaikin
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To: winoneforthegipper
4.5 2010/02/28 02:22:52 34.180 25.341 44.8 CRETE, GREECE
22 posted on 02/27/2010 6:52:19 PM PST by spectre ( Spectre's wife)
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To: winoneforthegipper

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2460679/posts?page=118#118


23 posted on 02/27/2010 6:52:23 PM PST by listenhillary (the only reason government wants to be our provider is so it may become our master)
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To: winoneforthegipper

No, they are not getting any worse. I don’t have any data to prove that, but I don’t need it. These days all you have to do is just state something is true, and it is. Yippeeeeeee!

BTW, Yellowstone is going to blow tomorrow and we are all going to die.


24 posted on 02/27/2010 6:53:12 PM PST by HerrBlucher (Jail Al Gore and the Climate Frauds!)
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To: teg_76

see tagline


25 posted on 02/27/2010 6:53:18 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (ANTHROPOGENIC CONTINENTAL DRIFT: for when global warming isn't silly enough anymore.)
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To: winoneforthegipper

26 posted on 02/27/2010 6:54:25 PM PST by listenhillary (the only reason government wants to be our provider is so it may become our master)
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To: winoneforthegipper

Fill all of the known faults with molten lead...it’s Manbearpig....I’m serial.


27 posted on 02/27/2010 6:56:05 PM PST by o-n-money
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To: HD1200; All

I just remembered that my comments are easy to find on the ping list. It was comment #269, on the post “Tsunami Warning for Hawaii.”


28 posted on 02/27/2010 6:56:18 PM PST by gleeaikin
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To: winoneforthegipper

Labor pains...stronger and closer together.


29 posted on 02/27/2010 6:56:21 PM PST by madison10
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To: HerrBlucher

I think the Killer Whalea KNEW the earthquake was coming... that’s why they were “agitated”... they had a natural instinct/warning to FLEE to deep water, but they couldn’t go...

hey! It makes as much sense as Al Gore’s glo-bull warning treatise.


30 posted on 02/27/2010 6:56:27 PM PST by SomeCallMeTim
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To: chicagolady

The cycles ( labor birth pains ) will get worse and worse, shorter and shorter as time goes on... but, this is just the beginning of things to come.


31 posted on 02/27/2010 6:57:21 PM PST by American Constitutionalist (There is no civility in the way the Communist/Marxist want to destroy the USA)
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To: GSP.FAN; winoneforthegipper
Are they getting worse than what?

Good question.

And the answer is yes and no.

The one today was worse then the one in 1985, (8.0) and not as bad as the one in 1960 (9.5).

32 posted on 02/27/2010 6:57:28 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (I miss the competent fiscal policy and flag waving patriotism of the Carter Administration)
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To: cripplecreek

Better than what?


33 posted on 02/27/2010 6:58:26 PM PST by GSP.FAN (These are the times that try men's souls.)
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To: teg_76
But more importantly it is the prelude to 12/12/2012!!!!!!!!

YIKES!!!!!

34 posted on 02/27/2010 6:59:11 PM PST by ImpBill ("America ... where are you now?" signed, a little "r" republican!)
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To: winoneforthegipper

My Freeper friends, before I even read the comments in this thread, or the entire article, let me predict a global warning alarming.

Al Gore must be scrambling his scrambled “schungen” off—humans damaging underground.


35 posted on 02/27/2010 7:00:57 PM PST by mirado ('...)
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To: SomeCallMeTim

No, it makes a LOT more sense.


36 posted on 02/27/2010 7:01:22 PM PST by HerrBlucher (Jail Al Gore and the Climate Frauds!)
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To: listenhillary

Let the mockers ignore it at their perl... how then ? would you also explain 3 major historic winter snow storms on the east coast in the last 3 weeks ? and signs in the heavens ?


37 posted on 02/27/2010 7:01:45 PM PST by American Constitutionalist (There is no civility in the way the Communist/Marxist want to destroy the USA)
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To: winoneforthegipper

To every action there is a reaction:

Obumber held a obumbercare conference, then there was the buggiest earthquake of my lifetime. Coincidence, I don’t think so.


38 posted on 02/27/2010 7:02:11 PM PST by JoSixChip (HOPE = Have Obumber Prove Eligibility)
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To: winoneforthegipper

Wait, they didn’t blame the quake on Global Warming?

I read this article fully expecting that. Maybe I just missed it.

Or was the talk of the earth being more active the last 15 years the media’s way of hinting that this is a recent phenomenon and therefore related to human activity?


39 posted on 02/27/2010 7:05:42 PM PST by Longbow1969
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To: winoneforthegipper
Big quake question: Are they getting worse?

Too many people driving heavy SUV's.

Bush's fault.

40 posted on 02/27/2010 7:06:09 PM PST by mbarker12474 (If thine enemy offend thee, give his childe a drum.)
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