Christ lad?
Okay ... this is getting scary now
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Christ lad?
Bundy
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You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew 24&version=NIV
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew 24&version=NIV
spikeman
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WTF??? Do you want anything to happen to LD?
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REPENT! REPENT FOR THE END HAS COME. NO ONE IS SAFE FROM THIS TERRIBLE WRATH THAT GOD FACES US WITH!
It's probably just a coincidence to be honest.
It's probably just a coincidence to be honest.
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I blame those Icelandics for keep blocking up those geezers to make them blow, all in the name of tourism and egg-boiling. Every time one of them tips a scoop of water down to do a squirter they set off a cataclysmic chain reaction on the other side of the earth, the roast a chicken trick could knock the top off Gunung Batung and the resulting effect would be like a line of firecrackers culminating in the tops popping off in New Zealand and the effect being like one huge Whack-a-Mole game from space.
3 in a row there, the place could end up like a teenagers forehead.
3 in a row there, the place could end up like a teenagers forehead.
Mutzo Nutzo
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I'm blaming the swiss and that haderon collider contraption.....Hiding under their mountain ploting the downfall of the world. Then after Earthquakes, and Volcano's and done for 3/4 of the earths population, the swiss will emerge and take-over the world.
I tell yer its gonna happen
I tell yer its gonna happen
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Would it not just be easier to bribe us with chocolate and multi functional army knives ?
Matt Damon
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Statistically this is nothing unusual
Larger earthquakes occur less frequently, the relationship being exponential; for example, roughly ten times as many earthquakes larger than magnitude 4 occur in a particular time period than earthquakes larger than magnitude 5. In the (low seismicity) United Kingdom, for example, it has been calculated that the average recurrences are: an earthquake of 3.7 - 4.6 every year, an earthquake of 4.7 - 5.5 every 10 years, and an earthquake of 5.6 or larger every 100 years. This is an example of the Gutenberg-Richter law.
The number of seismic stations has increased from about 350 in 1931 to many thousands today. As a result, many more earthquakes are reported than in the past, but this is because of the vast improvement in instrumentation, rather than an increase in the number of earthquakes. The USGS estimates that, since 1900, there have been an average of 18 major earthquakes (magnitude 7.0-7.9) and one great earthquake (magnitude 8.0 or greater) per year, and that this average has been relatively stable.
In recent years, the number of major earthquakes per year has decreased, although this is thought likely to be a statistical fluctuation rather than a systematic trend. More detailed statistics on the size and frequency of earthquakes is available from the USGS.
Most of the world's earthquakes (90%, and 81% of the largest) take place in the 40,000-km-long, horseshoe-shaped zone called the circum-Pacific seismic belt, also known as the Pacific Ring of Fire, which for the most part bounds the Pacific Plate. Massive earthquakes tend to occur along other plate boundaries, too, such as along the Himalayan Mountains.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deadly_earthquakes_since_1900
As you can see the world usually gets one major earthquake, 8 scale and above once per year. We get several or more 7 scale and above per year and thousands of 5-6scale quakes per year.
Major quakes also set off other quakes.
The boxing day 2005 quake 9.3 magnitude set off a secondary quake for example on another faultline
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake
With a magnitude of between 9.1 and 9.3, it is the second largest earthquake ever recorded on a seismograph. This earthquake had the longest duration of faulting ever observed, between 8.3 and 10 minutes. It caused the entire planet to vibrate as much as 1 cm (0.4 inches)[5] and triggered other earthquakes as far away as Alaska
Matt Damon
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You're right. It wouldn't be fantasy to have all the statistically large quakes happen in the first half of the year and have none occur in the second half of 2010...
As has been found, large Earthquakes can set off other earthquakes thousands of miles away it's been suggested in the journal Science.
So statistically that would suggest they would "bunch together" if plotted graphically, showing some complex relation.
Matt Damon
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You can get what's known as "midplate" or intraplate Earthquakes that don't occur on a fault line. These make up 10% of Earthquakes statistically. That plot only shows those caused on tectonic plate boundaries (or 90% of Earthquakes).
These "intraplate quakes" are also the most unpredictable earthquakes.
In the winter of 1811–1812, one of the largest sequences of earthquakes in recorded history occurred within the North American Plate near the town of New Madrid, Missouri. The magnitudes of at least three of those earthquakes are estimated to have been greater than 8.0 on the Richter scale. The earthquakes were felt over an area of millions of square miles and as far away as Boston. During the quakes, large areas of land rose and large areas of land fell several feet. Lakes were created and islands disappeared. The Mississippi River was disrupted, waterfalls formed, and large waves swamped many boats. During one of the events, the Mississippi River gave the illusion of flowing backwards. In 1895, another significant but smaller earthquake occurred in this region near the town of Charleston, Missouri. That quake was felt in 23 states.
Earthquakes along plate boundaries are relatively understandable given the tectonic activity localized there. Intra-plate earthquakes are much more enigmatic. One explanation offered for the New Madrid earthquakes are the increased stresses that were induced in the region by the unloading of the ice sheets that covered much of the northern United States until about 20,000 years ago. Geological evidence indicates that large earthquakes have occurred in this region before 1811. Some modeling suggests that the stresses that caused the earthquakes may persist for thousands of years in the future.
What I'm saying lid is, yes you'll be safer but don't discount what you consider the impossible because you're away from recognised fault lines.
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Mutzo Nutzo
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And relax....
Matt Damon
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Description Magnitude Frequency per year
Great 8.0+ 1
Major 7.0-7.9 18
Large (destructive) 6.0-6.9 120
Moderate (damaging) 5.0-5.9 1,000
Minor (damage slight) 4.0-4.0 6,000
Generally felt 3.0-3.9 49,000
Potentially perceptible 2.0-2.9 300,000
Imperceptible less than 2.0 600,000+
Even found a nice table for you Mutzo lid.
How Many Earthquakes Happen Every Month? Day? Minute?
Using the previous table:
Per month..........................................Approximately 80,000
Per day.........................................Approximately 2,600
Per minute..................................Approximately 2
And, per second, one earthquake is felt approximately every 30 seconds
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Mutzo Nutzo
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Feck me... cheers for the info Matt, I.didn't know they occurred so frequently, so I guess I've nothing to worry about (apart from a large hole in my garden!)
Matt Damon
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Probably badgers.
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