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New Brunswick town plagued for weeks by ‘earthquake swarm’ — and no one knows why
National Post ^ | 04/17/12 | staff

Posted on 04/18/2012 4:36:14 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper

Springtime in McAdam, a tiny village in southwestern New Brunswick not far from the Maine border, is like springtime in most other parts of Canada. Locals chatter about the NHL playoffs, the garden they are planting, the grass that needs to be cut, the fish they can’t wait to catch and the cottage they can’t wait to get to, once the warm weather really settles in.

Lately, however, an interloper has elbowed its way into the community’s daily dialogue. Pushing aside the playoffs. Pushing its way to the very top of the talking points.

“Everybody is talking about the earthquakes,” says David Blair, a retired science teacher and lifetime McAdam resident from his home on Old Harvey Road, just east of downtown.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalpost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; earthquake; fracking
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21 posted on 04/18/2012 6:22:09 AM PDT by bgill
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To: onedoug

Not that i have found.

They are shallow which has led some to speculate that they are merely frost heaves on steroids...lol


22 posted on 04/18/2012 6:31:10 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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To: bgill

lol...exactly!


23 posted on 04/18/2012 6:32:24 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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To: onedoug

According to the article, the quakes are occurring 1km below the surface.


24 posted on 04/18/2012 6:46:03 AM PDT by Squawk 8888 (Tories in- now the REAL work begins!)
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To: winoneforthegipper

Obviously caused by the shooting of Saint Trayvon.


25 posted on 04/18/2012 7:01:57 AM PDT by Iron Munro (If Repub's paid as much attention to Rush Limbaugh as the Dem's do, we wouldn't be in this mess)
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To: winoneforthegipper

Ah, no great mystery folks it is simply many of the brave men who fought to create this country are buried up there and they have been turning over in their graves since we have been on the path of throwing everything they did away.


26 posted on 04/18/2012 7:06:03 AM PDT by Wurlitzer (Welcome to the new USSA (United Socialist States of Amerika))
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To: winoneforthegipper

Biggest F`ing Gun Store around happens to be in McAdam !

Check the pic :

http://www.thegundealer.net/


27 posted on 04/18/2012 9:36:44 AM PDT by Para-Ord.45
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To: winoneforthegipper
Thanks!

You can draw a line at the latitude that the recent 4+ quakes (Maine, Gibraltar, Utah, Japan, China, India, etc) have been occurring along.

Not the recent booming noise in Wisconsin coincides.

28 posted on 04/18/2012 10:02:24 AM PDT by Errant
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To: Errant

Yeah I am studying now the gravity changes of undersea trenches fascinating stuff....and may be what is going on here.


29 posted on 04/18/2012 11:49:20 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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To: winoneforthegipper
Sounds interesting! Please send me a link if you run across something plausible.

I've been doing a little looking as well. Some are attempting to tie solar minimums to increased earthquake activity.

Their theory is what effects solar sunspots also effects earthquake activity.

30 posted on 04/18/2012 12:17:09 PM PDT by Errant
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To: Errant

have fun!

http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/project-pages/caribbean/model.html

http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEMMNBAATME_index_0.html

http://www.colby.edu/geology/RAG_142/142Platectonics.htm

Those will get you started just start googlin their citings...!


31 posted on 04/18/2012 12:22:21 PM PDT by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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To: Errant
I have a few minutes at work so let me explain why I am perplexed.

If you follow baseball, most pitchers are experiencing lesser velocity on their pitches this year. Then you have the marathon at Boston ran in some of the slowest times since it's running both in female and male races. They blamed it on the heat but truly as per science the hotter the air the less dense the faster the time should have been especially for a Kenyan who is uhhhh used to the heat.

So that leads to the earthquakes...

Imagine trenches in which almost all of the world's deepest at one point or another has an anomaly to the point of even negative. Now if more pressure is being asserted on these joints of the plates it would be easy to rationalize a period of larger and more frequent seismic activity.

The fact that intraplate quakes are on the rise is also I think a product of such.

Now on to the proof....lol

32 posted on 04/18/2012 12:35:08 PM PDT by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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To: winoneforthegipper

Thanks for the links and the explanation! I’m going to have to think about it for awhile... ;)


33 posted on 04/18/2012 2:50:07 PM PDT by Errant
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To: winoneforthegipper

Two 5+ quakes just rocked the North bank of the Persian Gulf (Iran/Iraq). I hope it isn’t time yet for the Mount of Olives to divide from Jerusalem.


34 posted on 04/18/2012 2:54:46 PM PDT by Errant
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To: winoneforthegipper
49th volcano erupts in 2012: Ecuador’s Sangay volcano unleashes 2 km ash cloud

49th for 2012

35 posted on 04/18/2012 2:59:59 PM PDT by Errant
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To: Errant

Volcanics and plate tectonics are more connected than most will admit...lol


36 posted on 04/18/2012 4:59:50 PM PDT by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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To: Errant

You got to see this...

Seems I am not the only one (in fact i am behind the times) that is keyin’ in on Gravity.

This video is amazing.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1372012/Potato-Earth-Gravity-satellite-reveals-planet-REALLY-looks-like.html


37 posted on 04/18/2012 7:17:26 PM PDT by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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To: winoneforthegipper
Whoa! Surely the scale is exaggerated??? Otherwise, parts would be flying off into space at our current 1,100 mph surface rotation speed.

It's no wonder the magnetic poles and plates move!

Where is a super computer model of the Earth's interior when you need one... lol

38 posted on 04/18/2012 8:24:35 PM PDT by Errant
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To: Errant

I like the anamoly near India...lol


39 posted on 04/19/2012 12:55:41 PM PDT by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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To: winoneforthegipper
Looks like something cataclysmic occurred. There's a bulge or higher gravity material on the opposite side.

What amazing sensitivity that instrument has!

40 posted on 04/20/2012 9:26:26 PM PDT by Errant
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