This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedivere. Explain again how sheep's bladders may be used to prevent earthquakes.
Sounds nutty to me.
Is this area near that giant Three Gorges Dam?
It looks like it’s pronounced “zipping poo”. Or is it just me?
Ah so!
It is entirely plausible. The tectonic plates are floating on magma & the water in that reservoir weighs a lot.
No way.
when you look from an airplane, that the Min valley has been afflicted with all kinds of man-made ills
I would say its the enviro wacko druming up fear again
Apparently, it is not an environmental wacko theory. See this paper www.johnmartin.com/earthquakes/eqpapers/00000054.htm
Asking an environmentalist about earthquakes is like asking a fat former Vice President to make weather predictions.
can the weight of the water behind a dam located on a fault zone be so heavy that it affects the movement of the Earth's crust along that zone
I believe the math theory to prove it is not yet known; I believe seismic science does not have a theory, and related algorithms to test it (some one correct me??)
Was that article a few days ago about the Nuclear test detonation disproven?
It’s possible, but I’d also like to see it peer reviewed.
If it’s the weight of the water that is responsible, I find it odd that the earthquake would be triggered at a time when the reservoir level was low.
Just as man is powerless to affect the weather to any degree beyond spending $1,000,000 to create 10 minutes of rain, he is also unable to cause large earthquakes. We, as a species, are great and all, but we ain’t that great.
I wonder what they blamed for earthquakes and melting glaciers before dams and the industrial revolution... anybody know?
Post dam ergo propter dam.
More arrogance from psuedo-scientists. We can control weather, we can cause earthquakes etc...If this is the case, wouldn’t undersea earthquakes be more frequent and massively more powerful than land based ones?
Sounds shaky to me.
The large San Francisco earthquake that occurred at the beginning of the last century was as the Crystal Springs reservoir was being filled South of the City. It sits directly on top of the San Andreas Fault. Could be coincidence or not.