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holy crap another earthquake hit Chile.

R

rasczak

Lifer
this time it's a mag 7.2.

it's on cnn.com

i think Chile is going to fall off the face of the earth soon.
 
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Looks like there were several over the last few hours. Thankfully the Richter scale is logarithmic, so 7.2/6.9/5.1 are significantly less damaging than 8.8.
 
joshsquall said:
Looks like there were several over the last few hours. Thankfully the Richter scale is logarithmic, so 7.2/6.9/5.1 are significantly less damaging than 8.8.
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It's fair to say they are significantly less powerful and no doubt there was probably less damage than the 8.8, altho duration of an earthquake is also a major variable is causing damage. Sometimes they are felt only for a few seconds, but sometimes >10, which can do a helluva lot more damage for the same size quake.
 
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I've always thought the whole aftershock is kinda funny.

Has it ever happened that there's an "aftershock" that is bigger than the initial quake?

Does the initial quake then become a beforeshock?

:awe:
 
Woah, so many earth quakes latelty. That sucks to get two in same spot too, they probably barely started to cleanup and now they have to start over again.
 
Eli said:
I've always thought the whole aftershock is kinda funny.

Has it ever happened that there's an "aftershock" that is bigger than the initial quake?

Does the initial quake then become a beforeshock?

:awe:
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That's like the stock market...tops are formed only after the market has gone down, bottoms are formed after the market has gone up. 😀
 
Eli said:
I've always thought the whole aftershock is kinda funny.

Has it ever happened that there's an "aftershock" that is bigger than the initial quake?

Does the initial quake then become a beforeshock?

:awe:
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Yep, but it's called a foreshock.
 
I never bought the party line from the geologists that the continents creep apart imperceptibly an inch a year or some such nonsense. After the first earthquake hit in Chile, one city went 10 feet towards the west coast. And we have seen whole islands formed in the ocean in a matter of days and weeks.

I don't think it's beyond the realm of possibility that we could see continental subduction zones swallow entire coast lines and cities in the near future, such as in California or Chile. Large earthquakes would certainly precede this process.
 
I heard the quake a week or two ago or whenever moved one town TEN FEET to the west. It moved the capital only 11 inches, which when you think about it is still a lot, but 10 feet? Heck.

OK Slicksnake just said the same thing. 🙁
 
SlickSnake said:
I never bought the party line from the geologists that the continents creep apart imperceptibly an inch a year or some such nonsense. After the first earthquake hit in Chile, one city went 10 feet towards the west coast. And we have seen whole islands formed in the ocean in a matter of days and weeks.

I don't think it's beyond the realm of possibility that we could see continental subduction zones swallow entire coast lines and cities in the near future, such as in California or Chile. Large earthquakes would certainly precede this process.
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And that sir is why they have degrees that allow them to say stuff about it and you don't. 😛
 
SlickSnake said:
I never bought the party line from the geologists that the continents creep apart imperceptibly an inch a year or some such nonsense. After the first earthquake hit in Chile, one city went 10 feet towards the west coast. And we have seen whole islands formed in the ocean in a matter of days and weeks.

I don't think it's beyond the realm of possibility that we could see continental subduction zones swallow entire coast lines and cities in the near future, such as in California or Chile. Large earthquakes would certainly precede this process.
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lol wat?

We can measure exactly how fast the continents are moving, with very high accuracy.

You obviously don't understand the idea behind earthquakes. Of course shit moves when there's an earthquake. The earthquake is the result of the release of a huge amount of energy that has been stored within the "locked up" portion of the Earth. It releases, causing an earthquake, and movement.

That isn't the way it always works, but you get the idea.
 
I did a bit of looking.

http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/qed/

Interesting website. Good info on the occurrence of earthquakes. It looks like, in a lot of regards, we are behind pace so far in 2010, despite what the media would have you believe. I think what makes things seem so crazy is that the Haiti quake was possibly the most deadly in history. That combined with a fairly decent Chile quake not long after and you've got every little quake being documented.

For instance, there are on average 134 6.0 to 6.9 earthquakes a year. Another 17 from 7.9 to 7.9. And typically 1 a year above 8.0. Sure, we've got the 8.0 covered for the year, but we are behind pace on 6 and 7.0 categories.
 
SlickSnake said:
I never bought the party line from the geologists that the continents creep apart imperceptibly an inch a year or some such nonsense. After the first earthquake hit in Chile, one city went 10 feet towards the west coast. And we have seen whole islands formed in the ocean in a matter of days and weeks.

I don't think it's beyond the realm of possibility that we could see continental subduction zones swallow entire coast lines and cities in the near future, such as in California or Chile. Large earthquakes would certainly precede this process.
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As long as you don't teach anyone anything related to science, I'm just gonna shake my head and pretend I didn't read this.
 
This is pointless. But for a small high profile taste for you high priests of science:

Flat Earth.

Sun revolves around the Earth.

Piltdown man Charles Dawson.

Dr. Robert Gallows faked HIV-AIDS research.

Global Warming frauds.

Woo Suk Hwang faked stem cell research.

17 faked Bell Labs papers on physics by Dr. J. Hendrik Schön.

These are just a few that stand out. I remembered the examples from where I read about these years ago, but I had to go back and look up the names. I can think of a few more examples without searching, as well. But I could literally search for hours and post faked science papers and findings in all fields of science all night long. And who knows how many faked science papers were hidden away when discovered just to keep from embarrassing universities and research organizations and having funding cut off.

But it sure is fun arguing in OFF TOPIC with all these arm chair pseudo-scientists about how infallible geologic science is. Now we just need a few wacko creationists to chime in that the Earth is 6k years old, and the nerdy geek circle jerk of googtrogstm is complete.
 
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