Thread: Earthquakes, where next and when?

Stuff it. I'm gonna move to South Africa...It looks safe enough from earthquaukes there...I might be shot, stabbed or blown up, but at least I won't be scared of dying in an earthquake all the time...


Mick

Well,gee...since yer all so cheerful here,....let's all not forget the caldera under yellowstone.Happy times eh...

I'm not really sure if there have been more earthquakes lately or if, because of TV and global networking we perceive that as such because of media coverage of cataclysms like that...
Then again, the Earth has cycles and we are maybe going through some sort of PMS thing...
Of course, we get frightenend and people (some people...) announce the Big One and the end of the world. But that's not the point... the point is WE will be gone but the Earth will go on for yet some billion years. And then some...

By the way: thebigspendur is a quack! He claims to be able to solve your problems if you send him your posessions but that isn't true! I'M the only one who can do that! So, send me a PM if you want to book a seat to see the end of the world in comfort and all-you-can-eat popcorn.

Back in the early sixties, I was talking to my brother-in-law who worked for an insurance company. I asked him if hiscompany sold earthquakes. He said they did but not in the northeast. He added that they were planning to sell it here in another twenty years or so, when earthquakes were scheduled to hit this part of the country. I asked how he knew that and he said insurance companies do incredible amounts of research on such things. The first one I felt in NH was in the mis seventies, right on schedule. I guess it's no mystery to those who study such things. By the way, the last one I felt was a 3.1 right under my feet last weekend.

Originally Posted by fpessanha

I'm not really sure if there have been more earthquakes lately or if, because of TV and global networking we perceive that as such because of media coverage of cataclysms like that...
Then again, the Earth has cycles and we are maybe going through some sort of PMS thing...
Of course, we get frightenend and people (some people...) announce the Big One and the end of the world. But that's not the point... the point is WE will be gone but the Earth will go on for yet some billion years. And then some...

By the way: thebigspendur is a quack! He claims to be able to solve your problems if you send him your posessions but that isn't true! I'M the only one who can do that! So, send me a PM if you want to book a seat to see the end of the world in comfort and all-you-can-eat popcorn.

I don't like popcorn.


Mick

Originally Posted by MickR

I don't like popcorn.


Mick

Nevermind. For an extra fee (an arm and a leg and a hat made from your wife's head) I can arrange propper cattering.

Originally Posted by fpessanha

Nevermind. For an extra fee (an arm and a leg and a hat made from your wife's head) I can arrange propper cattering.

I'll take "wings"... But you all know, 2012 is the end anyway... So drink up!

No idea, but Lynn should send me all his razors for safe keeping as he now lives directly over the New Madrid Fault.

Originally Posted by NoseWarmer

I'll take "wings"... But you all know, 2012 is the end anyway... So drink up!

I've heard about that 2012 thing as well...
It is interesting. The reasoning is quite fundamented in verifiable facts like the Mayan callendar and the I-Ching book of changes... But, then again, I think that the reason why the Mayan callendar ends in 2012 is because the guy who was charged to do it got bored and said "oh, well... that'll do!..." (as if he worked for British Leyland in the 1970's.
The end of the world has been announced several times in history. In the year 1000 everybody in Europe was frightened and yet... nothing. And in the year 2000 we had the millenium bug. The bug didn't bite any byte... and everything kept working. I guess we'll see when the day comes.
A friend of mine is a bit more skeptical... he says he'll buy a horse's saddle and pin it hard into the ground and ride the shifting poles as if it was a pony! I'm glad he's a doctor and not a physicist!

Originally Posted by fpessanha

I've heard about that 2012 thing as well...
But, then again, I think that the reason why the Mayan callendar ends in 2012 is because the guy who was charged to do it got bored and said "oh, well... that'll do!..."

I think the guy was doing hard time in prision and he was either released or died...

"When it's time... It's time"...