Me first!
Bush's fault!
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I wonder what they mean by "around" full and near moons -- if they're counting three days before and after, that covers half the lunar cycle. Add to that a small sample size (only 10 months), and you've got a pretty week for a causal connection.
I really have to wonder, too, why the sample size is so small -- every tremor is recorded and lunar cycles are perfectly predictable, so I'd think it would be pretty east to set up a computer to process 20 or 30 years' worth of data, maybe more, going back however far the seismographic measurements are considered reliable.
Does this mean the Earth causes Moonquakes? :-P
I learned the difference between "spring tides" (solar and lunar gravity pulls aligned) and "neap tides" (solar and lunar gravity pulls counteracting each other) in grade school.
Are they a factor in earthquakes/tsunamis as well?
Jim Berkland's been saying that for years on Art Bell. He "predicted" the World Series quake on his Moon/tides model.
He factors in the "increase in missing pets ads in the paper" too.
Check out his website at http://www.syzygyjob.com/
His model's not perfect, either. He admitted it would have missed the 1906 San Francisco quake.
I don't know about the heavy rains. Exactly how long does it take to "lubricate" the faults?
I remember a proposal twenty or thirty years ago to pump water in to faults to get to slip a lot, rather than
letting go all at once.
Interesting.
I used to have a subscription to New Scientist,but dropped it after reading just a few issues.
What a waste of paper !
Thanks. Will read later.
Farmers Almanac approach to tsunamis.
BTTT
A meteor hitting the Earth has been the subject of much attention in research. The historical data has been collected, etc.. But do scientist ever theorize what a massive meteor/asteroid/comet hit or hits on the Moon would do to the Earth?
Just throwing it out there.
Let me smell the moon in your perfume.
This has to do with loading a greater weight of water at plate boundaries, which is a bit weird, because it's the Moon doing it, which means the load isn't any greater anyway. :')
Around 1970 there was stuff about "dilatancy", a phenomenon wherein microfractures formed from small quakes / tremors, and then the Big One followed after rain fell, lubed the microfractures, kaboom.
Sadly, predictive models for quakes remain pretty poor.
So we're experiencing global mooning?