New Brunswick town plagued for weeks by ‘earthquake swarm’ — and no one knows why

National Post ^ | 04/17/12 | staff

[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.

[winoneforthegipper]

Another Wisconsin?

[winoneforthegipper]

Interesting reports to go along with that moderate quake last week in the Gulf of Maine.

[Uncle Ike]

” and no one knows why “

Fracking in Oklahoma...

/s

[Rebelbase]

All that Maine fracking going on...

[cripplecreek]

Canadian shield rebound?

[I-ambush]

The Chinese are nearing completion of their tunnel through the earth.

[winoneforthegipper]

Certainly could be rebound but I am leaning not.

[PowderMonkey]

"No one knows why."

You live on a seismically active planet. Shakes happen. Even in quiet little 'burgs like mine. A swarm of small quakes sure beats one big one. Keep calm. Carry on.

[Gay State Conservative]

Fracking in Oklahoma...

It's worse than that...fracking ordered by the Bush/Cheney regime.

[Izzy Dunne]

I am Gojira !

[SampleMan]

Causes:
1. Fracking
2. Global warming
3. Racism

[cripplecreek]

A lot of the eastern tremors do seem to be shadowing the Canadian shield.

[Recon Dad]

4. BUSH

[Izzy Dunne]

5... Unrestrained Capitalism
6... Tax Cuts.

[Humble Servant]

Anthropogenic Global Swarming.

[winoneforthegipper]

You will love this pdf!

http://people.ucalgary.ca/~ppwu/TTPEarthquake.pdf

[winoneforthegipper]

Lol...!

[winoneforthegipper]

Classic!

[MrB]

“Fracking in Oklahoma...”

They must be REALLY going at it, I guess.

[onedoug]

Anyone got any data on these? None at USGS. Depth?

[bgill]

[winoneforthegipper]

Not that i have found.

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

[winoneforthegipper]

lol...exactly!

[Squawk 8888]

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

[Iron Munro]

Obviously caused by the shooting of Saint Trayvon.

[Wurlitzer]

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.

[Para-Ord.45]

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

Check the pic :

http://www.thegundealer.net/

[Errant]

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.

[winoneforthegipper]

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

[Errant]

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.

[winoneforthegipper]

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...!

[winoneforthegipper]

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

[Errant]

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

[Errant]

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.

[Errant]

49th volcano erupts in 2012: Ecuador’s Sangay volcano unleashes 2 km ash cloud

49th for 2012

[winoneforthegipper]

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

[winoneforthegipper]

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

[Errant]

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

[winoneforthegipper]

I like the anamoly near India...lol

[Errant]

Looks like something cataclysmic occurred. There's a bulge or higher gravity material on the opposite side.

What amazing sensitivity that instrument has!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks winoneforthegipper.

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[BIGLOOK]

Pressure and weight. After all the stories of the Arctic ice cap melting, the reports now are that it's growing which is the normal ebb and flow of the ice cap.

Something somewhere has to give; I wonder whose fault that'll be.

[Monkey Face]

The World will be blaming Zero for much more than what Conservatives have uncovered in the last 3.5 years, and he will be lucky if he isn’t tarred and feathered in the Hereafter.

[Cvengr]

The more Red Lobsters are opened up around the country, the more the weight of those lobsters have been removed from the vicinity of the swarming quakes.

It’s a New England version of fracking on a global Red Lobster scale. /s <;^)

[winoneforthegipper]

Very true....darn those cracking operations@!

[gleeaikin]

In the comments below the article, one person lists two companies by name that are fracking within about 5 or 10 miles from the town.

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2873556/posts?page=35#35

[SunkenCiv]

Probably WWF Smackdown took place somewhere in the vicinity, that “get ready to rumble” guy...

[BIGLOOK]