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Postby tubeswell » Sun Sep 19, 2010 8:07 pm

Usually here we have regular quakes up and down the country, fairly evenly dispersed in intensity and spatial distribution.

Then a fortnight ago we had the biggest on-land shakeup since 1931 and now all the quakes are happening in one place, except for one occasional intermittent shake near Hawkes' Bay

http://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/qua ... uakes.html

Yet despite this, the earthquake fraternity persist in denying that quakes in other parts of the country (or other parts of the world) are connected in any way whatsoever. i.e.: e.g.:

http://www.sdnn.com/sandiego/2010-04-19 ... evastation

http://cbs4.com/local/Chile.earthquake. ... 30405.html

I just think its because nobody has developed a decent theory about how they might be connected.

So where have all the other quakes gone?
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Re: unconnected earthquakes

Postby KLA2 » Sun Sep 19, 2010 9:10 pm

tubeswell wrote:So where have all the other quakes gone?


... long time passing
Where have all the earthquakes gone, long time ago ... :lol:

Really not an area of expertise for me. We did have a quake in Canada June 23 2010 that I actually felt near Burlington Ontario. (My first!)

I recall reading that hundreds of quakes a year happen, every year.

Since here in Canada, there in New Zealand, and Haiti, Chile are (I think) on different tectonic plates or fault lines, I doubt a direct connection.

Perhaps you could expand on or provide your theory on "how they might be connected."

Again, this is a field of science in which I have no expertise. :oops:
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Re: unconnected earthquakes

Postby tubeswell » Sun Sep 19, 2010 10:49 pm

KLA2 wrote:
tubeswell wrote:Again, this is a field of science in which I have no expertise. :oops:


Me neither. I'm merely a 'generalist-specialist' who dabbles because of left-over feelings of inadequacy that I experience everyday I come home from working in the planning orofice. (And there's more parallels there than you might think.)

Anyhow I was thinkin' (the obvious thought) that all the energy that is usually spread more-or-less evenly around the techtonic plates is, at the moment, being let off in one area of particularly loose particles, and so there is nothing left for the other areas to get excited about. Hence there must be a relationship between quakes in one place and the absence of quakes in another place. But I'm blowed if I'm gonna sit down and set about making a whole pile of measurements. They must have spambot that they can adapt to do that these days.
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Postby Enzo » Mon Sep 20, 2010 12:31 am

They do have earthquakes in Canada, but they are much more polite there. "Pardon me, I need to shake your house...thank you."

Don;t forget those guys trying to correlate all the earthquakes to the phase of the moon.
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Postby KLA2 » Mon Sep 20, 2010 12:50 am

There is lots of information available on the internet, for example

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ ... qstats.php

150 annual quakes magnitude 6 and up. When a plate shifts, it does not necessarily do it all at once. There are (after)shocks that may go on for months or longer.

I think I understand what you are speculating. Hopefully someone on this board knows, or knows someone, who can address your question authoritatively. :)
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Postby tubeswell » Mon Sep 20, 2010 2:32 am

Enzo wrote:Don;t forget those guys trying to correlate all the earthquakes to the phase of the moon.


Well that's a fairly obvious place to start, gravity'n'all being what it is supposedly is made out to be.
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Postby tubeswell » Mon Sep 20, 2010 2:33 am

KLA2 wrote:Hopefully someone on this board knows, or knows someone, who can address your question authoritatively. :)


Yes I constantly put myself in danger in that regard
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Postby MM_Dandy » Mon Sep 20, 2010 6:01 pm

Isn't NZ somewhat volcanically active? If I recall, it is on the "Pacific Ring of Fire." A large number of earthquakes in a small geographical area may just be a volcanically-related quake swarm. Similar swarms occur near the Yellowstone Caldera from time to time. Some swarm occurrences are associated with a larger nearby quake, but not all.
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Postby tubeswell » Tue Sep 21, 2010 12:08 am

MM_Dandy wrote:Isn't NZ somewhat volcanically active? If I recall, it is on the "Pacific Ring of Fire."


Yeah its a regular puffing billy-o


MM_Dandy wrote:A large number of earthquakes in a small geographical area may just be a volcanically-related quake swarm. Similar swarms occur near the Yellowstone Caldera from time to time. Some swarm occurrences are associated with a larger nearby quake, but not all.


In this case its obviously a swarm associated with the movement of the 'new' fault.

http://www.geonet.org.nz/news/article-s ... quake.html

But it looks like the Christchurch quake has, for the time-being, 'de-frocked' the regular pattern of 'random' quakes which, until the week before last, were typically scattered all over the country on a daily basis. It is like the release of tension in the crust there has taken the energy out of the other parts of the crust, like a pressure release valve on a boiler. Of course this must be a temporary phenomenon, because sooner or later the other areas are going to get so far out-of-kilter than there must be further quakes elsewhere as things realign in accordance with new predominant crustal pressure areas.
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Postby KLA2 » Thu Sep 23, 2010 7:22 pm

Um, yeah.

Is there a seismologist in the house? :shock: :lol:
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Postby Enzo » Fri Sep 24, 2010 12:52 am

Don't know if you know who he is on the other side of the world, but we have TV preacher/politician Pat Robertson, who assures us at any natural disaster that it is God expressing his displeasure that we allow homosexuals in our army, or allow women to have abortions.



Apparently since hurricanes never go to Las Vegas, that place must be OK with God.
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Postby KLA2 » Fri Sep 24, 2010 1:58 am

That's a safe bet. :glp-rimshot:

{Sorry, Enzo. I learned from the best. :wink: }
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Postby Enzo » Fri Sep 24, 2010 9:23 am

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Postby Superluminal » Tue May 10, 2011 3:25 am

When people think of Arkansas, they don't usually think of earthquakes. But one of the largest earthquakes in recorded history happened here. The New Madrid quakes of 1811-12. But in recent months we've had a cluster of quakes in central Ark. just outside of the New Madrid seismic zone.
http://folkworm.ceri.memphis.edu/recent ... 92-35.html
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Postby tubeswell » Tue May 10, 2011 6:45 am

Superluminal wrote:They're blaming it on fracking.


I've never heard that term. Is it something that frustrated gamblers do by themselves?
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Postby Superluminal » Tue May 10, 2011 6:52 am

Pumping water or other liquids down a natural gas well to force out natural gas.
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Postby Blue Monster 65 » Tue May 10, 2011 11:18 am

From what I've heard/read, the New Madrid fault is (historically) due for a major quake anytime within the next 50 years.

Could be sporting.
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Postby Superluminal » Tue May 10, 2011 5:33 pm

And the 200th anniversity of the 1811-12 quakes is coming up. :o
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Postby KLA2 » Wed May 18, 2011 2:56 am

I am sure I have said this before, but it bears repeating. {In my arrogant opinion.}

The earth shakes, bakes, rattles, rolls, floods and blows. There are asteroid impacts and ice ages.

A hundred, or a thousand, years of stability do not prove that a benevolent god is rewarding mankind for certain rules of behavior.

Nor is the converse true.

Reality simply … is.
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Postby Superluminal » Wed May 18, 2011 4:20 am

Today we have siesmic monitoring stations, connected by satellite and the internet. Every earthquake, from the Japan 9.0 to these little 2.0's in Arkansas are on the net within minutes. To the uninitiated it would appear the Earth is missbehaving, but it is the normal state of the earth to do these things.
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Postby tubeswell » Fri May 20, 2011 5:43 am

Seismology sure is great ain't it?

http://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/qua ... uakes.html

(Post your local seismic net here)
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Postby Superluminal » Sun May 22, 2011 2:36 am

This morning at 0435 local time there was a 2.0 earthquake near Rose Bud Ark.
So, those end of the worlders were right on the money on predicting massive Earthquakes :roll: .
http://folkworm.ceri.memphis.edu/recent ... 2111a.html
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Postby Superluminal » Sun May 22, 2011 2:53 am

Looking at the worldwide earthquake map, May 21, looks relatively quiet.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/
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Postby tubeswell » Sun May 22, 2011 3:04 am

Superluminal wrote:Looking at the worldwide earthquake map, May 21, looks relatively quiet.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/


Hell ! Not much at all! (Just the usual ring of fire.)
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