Scientists say quartz is key to understanding quakes (and more)

Reuters ^ | March 16, 2011 | Laura Zuckerman

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks decimon. Looking for quartz could be a new angle on exoplanet research.

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks decimon.

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[decimon]

Looking for quartz could be a new angle on exoplanet research.

May the quartz be with you!

[Duchess47]

Crystal Peak, NV. Whole mountain of crystals.

[Errant]

Quartz is also the key to warp technology

No, it's Dilithium.

[decimon]

That’s probably a nasty place to be but it looks neat.

[Ron C.]

Funny that the map doesn't show much red or orange around LA and much less near San Fran. Lots of it in AZ and NM where there is never a quake.

It is the fault lines where most quakes originate, and they are all deep rifts in the plate techtonics, so it is hard for me to jump on this bandwagon and blame quartz.

BTW, decimon - you're right and I was wrong. Quartz is 7 to 7.5 - not 9. My memory from reading that scale was quite faulty! LOL But, then at my age, I have more faults seemingly every day...

[newzjunkey]

I was wondering how he tracked that and why would it only be domestic pets, not all animals?

The unproven theory claims to look at reports of missing pets around quake events. How do you track missing animals? People usually know where their pets are and if they're missing so it's easier to track.

[logitech]

Good one, but I think Tommy was thinking of an earthquake of a different kind.

[newzjunkey]

I was wondering how he tracked that and why would it only be domestic pets, not all animals?

The unproven theory claims to look at reports (classified ads) of missing pets around quake events. How do you track all missing animals? People usually know where their pets are and if they're missing so it's easier to track.

[Duchess47]

It’s incredible for a rock hound like me. Anywhere I dug I found crystals.

[rfp1234]

Hmmmm...at first glance it looks like a circumstantial case. Quartz is a common mineral. It's everywhere. Most beach sand is dominated by quartz.

Quartz is indeed weaker and more easily deformed than surrounding minerals and is also one of the later stage minerals to crystallize from magma. But it's a chicken vs. egg thing. Do cracks in the earth form in zones where the quartz is or does the quartz, along with the rest of the magma, just take advantage of preexisting cracks to sneak through?

I shall just wait to read the actual paper. But it's a good distraction from all the recent horrors.

[Calvin Locke]

Probably the same guy that's on C2CAM fairly often.

He uses a number of indicators. Tides, full Moon, increase in
radon, etc. The domestic pets part comes from reading the
local paper charting the increase in the number of classifieds
looking for missing pets.

His "predictions" are generally two-week "windows" mostly in the
PacRim. I once heard Art Bell or a caller ask if his method
would have worked in 1906 San Francisco. He said he did run
the info he had available, but that quake fell outside his 1906
tidal/Lunar cycles.

[allmost]

Quakes are complex. Way too many variables to dwell solely on one. This is one of the worst one’s I've heard yet. Quartz is ubiquitous, on the surface. Mountain building and earthquake activity seem to be a little bit lower in the planet.

[decimon]

BTW, decimon - you're right and I was wrong. Quartz is 7 to 7.5 - not 9.

Now here's the bad news - you should have addressed that to Joined2Justify. :-)

[23 Everest]

Checking the classified for lost pets is a wee bit behind the curve, for early warning of impending quakes right? He’s a scam artist for sure.

[JSteff]

a whole mtn range uplifted and thrust over the underlying rock?

Everyone knows e.t. aliens did that with tractor beams.

[JSteff]

a whole mtn range uplifted and thrust over the underlying rock?

Everyone knows e.t. aliens did that with tractor beams.

[Mike Darancette]

Using newly developed remote sensing technology known as Earthscope, Lowry and Perez-Gussinye found that quartz indicates a weakness in the earth's crust likely to spawn a geologic event such as an earthquake or a volcano.

Lots of quartz off the coast of Japan?

[McCloud-Strife]

Dilithium is a kind of quartz with a structure in 4 dimensions instead of the usual 3 :-)