Why was the Haiti Earthquake was not predictable?
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From: BradGuth on 18 Jan 2010 15:22 On Jan 18, 7:39 am, jmfbahciv <jmfbahciv(a)aol> wrote: > BradGuth wrote: > > On Jan 17, 3:21 pm, "J. Clarke" <jclarke.use...(a)cox.net> wrote: > >> jmfbahciv wrote: > >>> BradGuth wrote: > >>>> On Jan 16, 7:33 am, jmfbahciv <jmfbahciv(a)aol> wrote: > >>>>> tadchem wrote: > >>>>>> On Jan 13, 11:32 am, Sanny <softtank...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >>>>>>> Why was todays, Haiti Earthquake not predictable? > >>>>>>http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100115/science/science_us_haiti_ea... > >>>>> Why is all the news about Haiti? Didn't Santo Domingo get an > >>>>> earthquake? > >>>>> /BAH > >>>> Whenever that moon gets aligned, and worse yet if this included the > >>>> planet Venus, there's lots of earthquakes to pick from. > >>> Huh? I was talking about the country which is on the other > >>> half of that island. > >> You expect BradGuth to actually know some geography? > > > You expect anyone to take you seriously, as in ever? > > > Can you give us an example where anything you've ever had to offer had > > actual value or meaning outside of just parrot talk. > > > Apparently you don't know squat about tectonic plates either, though > > pretending is so much fun. An earthquake can be a horrific 9 on one > > side of the line and merely a mild 6 on the other side that's just a > > few miles away, and by all means it should help that isolation by > > having a mountain of mass in between. > > > How much did Haiti near ground zero rise or fall? > > I figured the quake was volcanic and not a slip of faults. > Are you saying that the mountain separaing the two countries > is from two plates rather than a volcano? Maybe the island > I'm remembering was a different island. > > /BAH Perhaps it's a little of both, seismic and volcanic. ~ BG
From: jmfbahciv on 19 Jan 2010 10:04 BradGuth wrote: > On Jan 18, 11:01 am, John Stafford <n...(a)droffats.ten> wrote: >> In article <hj1uim42...(a)news7.newsguy.com>, jmfbahciv <jmfbahciv(a)aol> >> wrote: >> >>> BradGuth wrote: >>>> How much did Haiti near ground zero rise or fall? >>> I figured the quake was volcanic and not a slip of faults. >>> Are you saying that the mountain separaing the two countries >>> is from two plates rather than a volcano? Maybe the island >>> I'm remembering was a different island. >> It was a strike-slip quake. No significant rise or fall. > > In other words, the buoyancy of Haiti is roughly the same, and unlike > Yellowstone, there's no build-up of any gas or magma bubble that's > looking for a way out. > Huh? You think islands float? They're not a dessert. /BAH
From: jmfbahciv on 19 Jan 2010 10:04 BradGuth wrote: > On Jan 18, 7:39 am, jmfbahciv <jmfbahciv(a)aol> wrote: >> BradGuth wrote: >>> On Jan 17, 3:21 pm, "J. Clarke" <jclarke.use...(a)cox.net> wrote: >>>> jmfbahciv wrote: >>>>> BradGuth wrote: >>>>>> On Jan 16, 7:33 am, jmfbahciv <jmfbahciv(a)aol> wrote: >>>>>>> tadchem wrote: >>>>>>>> On Jan 13, 11:32 am, Sanny <softtank...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>>>> Why was todays, Haiti Earthquake not predictable? >>>>>>>> http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100115/science/science_us_haiti_ea... >>>>>>> Why is all the news about Haiti? Didn't Santo Domingo get an >>>>>>> earthquake? >>>>>>> /BAH >>>>>> Whenever that moon gets aligned, and worse yet if this included the >>>>>> planet Venus, there's lots of earthquakes to pick from. >>>>> Huh? I was talking about the country which is on the other >>>>> half of that island. >>>> You expect BradGuth to actually know some geography? >>> You expect anyone to take you seriously, as in ever? >>> Can you give us an example where anything you've ever had to offer had >>> actual value or meaning outside of just parrot talk. >>> Apparently you don't know squat about tectonic plates either, though >>> pretending is so much fun. An earthquake can be a horrific 9 on one >>> side of the line and merely a mild 6 on the other side that's just a >>> few miles away, and by all means it should help that isolation by >>> having a mountain of mass in between. >>> How much did Haiti near ground zero rise or fall? >> I figured the quake was volcanic and not a slip of faults. >> Are you saying that the mountain separaing the two countries >> is from two plates rather than a volcano? Maybe the island >> I'm remembering was a different island. >> >> /BAH > > Perhaps it's a little of both, seismic and volcanic. > > ~ BG Or none of the above. /BAH
From: BradGuth on 19 Jan 2010 10:03 On Jan 19, 7:04 am, jmfbahciv <jmfbahciv(a)aol> wrote: > BradGuth wrote: > > On Jan 18, 7:39 am, jmfbahciv <jmfbahciv(a)aol> wrote: > >> BradGuth wrote: > >>> On Jan 17, 3:21 pm, "J. Clarke" <jclarke.use...(a)cox.net> wrote: > >>>> jmfbahciv wrote: > >>>>> BradGuth wrote: > >>>>>> On Jan 16, 7:33 am, jmfbahciv <jmfbahciv(a)aol> wrote: > >>>>>>> tadchem wrote: > >>>>>>>> On Jan 13, 11:32 am, Sanny <softtank...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >>>>>>>>> Why was todays, Haiti Earthquake not predictable? > >>>>>>>>http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100115/science/science_us_haiti_ea... > >>>>>>> Why is all the news about Haiti? Didn't Santo Domingo get an > >>>>>>> earthquake? > >>>>>>> /BAH > >>>>>> Whenever that moon gets aligned, and worse yet if this included the > >>>>>> planet Venus, there's lots of earthquakes to pick from. > >>>>> Huh? I was talking about the country which is on the other > >>>>> half of that island. > >>>> You expect BradGuth to actually know some geography? > >>> You expect anyone to take you seriously, as in ever? > >>> Can you give us an example where anything you've ever had to offer had > >>> actual value or meaning outside of just parrot talk. > >>> Apparently you don't know squat about tectonic plates either, though > >>> pretending is so much fun. An earthquake can be a horrific 9 on one > >>> side of the line and merely a mild 6 on the other side that's just a > >>> few miles away, and by all means it should help that isolation by > >>> having a mountain of mass in between. > >>> How much did Haiti near ground zero rise or fall? > >> I figured the quake was volcanic and not a slip of faults. > >> Are you saying that the mountain separaing the two countries > >> is from two plates rather than a volcano? Maybe the island > >> I'm remembering was a different island. > > >> /BAH > > > Perhaps it's a little of both, seismic and volcanic. > > > ~ BG > > Or none of the above. > > /BAH Stop jerking off. It's a little of both because of what that small plate section is up against, as Earth keeps trying to cool off and the moon with its 2e20 N/sec keeps everything heated up and on the move. ~ BG
From: BradGuth on 19 Jan 2010 10:08
On Jan 19, 7:04 am, jmfbahciv <jmfbahciv(a)aol> wrote: > BradGuth wrote: > > On Jan 18, 11:01 am, John Stafford <n...(a)droffats.ten> wrote: > >> In article <hj1uim42...(a)news7.newsguy.com>, jmfbahciv <jmfbahciv(a)aol> > >> wrote: > > >>> BradGuth wrote: > >>>> How much did Haiti near ground zero rise or fall? > >>> I figured the quake was volcanic and not a slip of faults. > >>> Are you saying that the mountain separaing the two countries > >>> is from two plates rather than a volcano? Maybe the island > >>> I'm remembering was a different island. > >> It was a strike-slip quake. No significant rise or fall. > > > In other words, the buoyancy of Haiti is roughly the same, and unlike > > Yellowstone, there's no build-up of any gas or magma bubble that's > > looking for a way out. > > Huh? You think islands float? They're not a dessert. > > /BAH It's called geology that's essentially floating on top of a mantel of fluid magma that's essentially thicker and hotter than hell, as in providing more than enough buoyancy in order to float surface plates of basalt and multiple elements. ~ BG |