By: kadaka (KD Knoebel)
u.k.(us) said on August 8, 2012 at 11:37 am: Here’s a question. Are “head crashes” a problem for computers during earthquakes ? If the computer falls off the desk and hits hard while the hard disk...
View ArticleBy: Ben D Hillicoss
Lived in Los Gatos California in 1987, we had a dozen or so 4.0 to 5.0 magnitude quakes leading up to the Loma Preada (SP) earthquake of October 17th 1987, I hope and pray these are not that…killed...
View ArticleBy: Pieter Folkens
I just heard on ABC top-of-the-hour news on the radio that some dolt is proclaiming that AGW causes increased earthquakes. He went on to say that July was the warmest on record.
View ArticleBy: Jim
I wonder if it was caused by global <del>warming</del>... err, climate <del>change</del> disruption.
View ArticleBy: jayhd
It’s very easy to be facetious about these things. After all, the CAGW hoaxsters claim every bad thing that happens is caused by global warming/climate change. Let’s hope we can continue to make light...
View ArticleBy: ntesdorf
I’m sure that we will find out that it’s actually caused by Global Warming, Climate Change, Climate Disruption, Climate Instability, ……….I forget..
View ArticleBy: John Glanton
Dammit, my wife stomped out of the bedroom this morning demanding to know who broke her favorite trophy. I checked, and sure enough, the quake had knocked her big triple-decker trophy off the side...
View ArticleBy: Hoser
Ok, I’m not a geologist. And yet, I have followed arguments about earthquake patterns such as in Asia Minor. The concept is the stress of one earthquake can be transferred to the next segment after the...
View ArticleBy: tcvaughn
Let’s stop all the speculation as to the cause of this quake. Harry Reid will tell us the truth about it tomorrow. /sarc
View ArticleBy: DesertYote
This is news? Where I lived 4.5’s happened pretty regularly (Rogers Creek). Had a 4.6 with epicenter about .25 mile away. At the first shock, I thought it was my teen-aged son and yelled at him to...
View ArticleBy: Svend Ferdinandsen
Denmark had also a quake http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usb000bpam.php and that is a bit more amazing. I did not felt it as it was very early in the morning, but many...
View ArticleBy: Brian H
kadaka (KD Knoebel) says: August 8, 2012 at 1:11 pm u.k.(us) said on August 8, 2012 at 11:37 am: Here’s a question. Are “head crashes” a problem for computers during earthquakes ? If the computer...
View ArticleBy: Brian H
GW is causing the globe to expand, and softening the crust. These little stretch-mark failures are only to be expected. That’s my theory, and I’m sticking to it! At least for a week or so …
View ArticleBy: Michael J Alexander
Ok, I’m not a geologist. And yet, I have followed arguments about earthquake patterns such as in Asia Minor. The concept is the stress of one earthquake can be transferred to the next segment after the...
View ArticleBy: Brian H
Michael J Alexander says: August 9, 2012 at 8:34 am … Example, an old glass plain window. If you look and measure a glass window that is more than 100 years old, you’ll find that the glass is thicker...
View ArticleBy: MarkW
Michael J Alexander says: August 9, 2012 at 8:34 am I can think of two fault systems off of the top of my head where earthquakes tend to “walk” along the fault. One is in Turkey and another in the...
View ArticleBy: Michael J Alexander
Mark, they move more often because those sections of both plates move more rapidly. On the Haiti fault system, there seems to be a large event every 100 to 150 years. On the glass thing… It does appear...
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