[exnavy]

Earth shaking ping.

[DogBarkTree]

Could it be that the sun & moon’s cycles and earth’s molten core also influence climate on the earth’s surface? Nawwwwwwww.......

[Past Your Eyes]

Those Moonies are still getting blamed for everything.

[gargoyle]

...Time to get out of Hell A, folks, and Californy. When it falls into the Pacific and is flushed away, the better this country will be. Ahhhh, Arizona Bay. Buy some desert now...

[KoRn]

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[B-Chan]

When is Congress going to pass legislation dealing with the serious problem of global pulling? The world demands action!

[GreyFriar]

Dang that Bush for coopting the sun and moon to do his anti-California dirty work.

[GraceG]

This reminds me there was this guy on Coast to Coast, who claimed the same thing about tides and earthquakes.....

[norton]

"Because the San Andreas Fault is a right-lateral strike-slip fault, the west side of the fault tends to break north-northwestward, dragging Los Angeles closer to San Francisco."

Oh please Lord, not that!

It's bad enough just being L.A.

[cookcounty]

When Baja Californis gets dragged across the negotiated Border meridian, does it become US territory?

[Quix]

NOW, NOW.

THIS SCIENTIFIC FINDING SIMPLY CANNOT BE TRUE.

Strategerist has decreed that such is impossible, so it simply cannot be true.

[Mr. Jazzy]

You mean there ARE really deep sources of water? Like what the Bible called in Genesis, the “fountains of the deep” that helped flood the earth in the time of Noah?

Naaaaaawwww!

[PAR35]

suggesting that the rock 15 miles below is lubricated with highly pressurized water

Could be oil. If California would drill and pump much more aggressively, they might cut down on earthquake damage.

[dr_lew]

"When shear stress on a plane parallel to the San Andreas Fault most encourages slipping in its normal slip direction is when we see the maximum tremor rate," Bürgmann said. "The stress is many, many orders of magnitude less than the pressure down there, which was really, really surprising. You essentially could push it with your hand and it would move."

This is misleading. They give the figure of 1/1000 atm. for the shear stress, and this is .015 lb/in2, or 1.5 lb/ 100 in2. So imagine gently pushing a 10" X 10" board sideways with your hand.

The misleading thing is that this gentle force acts on every such 10" X 10" area over hundreds of square miles in the region, and the total shearing force over the region is the sum of these gentle forces.

The tidal potential is in the form of a raised bulge of a few feet which moves around as the earth turns. As it passes by, the local reference for a horizontal, or level, surface tilts very gently on way and then another. Of course, the oceans respond to this by sloshing within the confines of the ocean basin. Here, they're saying that the rock slides back and forth in similar fashion, much to their surprise.

[I see my hands]

Brugmansian

Mary, Mary, come with me. On a hill we'll take some tea and watch LA fall in the sea.

[montag813]

"OTISBURG?"

[Moltke]

Clearly, we need to get the earth further away from the disruptive influences of the sun and the moon.

Al Gore, get on it already, will ya?

[Right Wing Assault]

Years ago, didn’t they laugh at people who claimed the sun and moon influenced earthquakes?

When I was little, 4th grade, I mentioned to the teacher that it looked as if S. America fit right into Africa and I wondered if they had ever been connected. Ha,ha. Years later, I read about a guy called Wegener.

[SunkenCiv]

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