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Earthquakes

And them saying that 'HAARP'* was used to create an earthquake in Turkey is akin to saying that an HGV driving past my house in Flitwick caused it to rain in Mexico at the same time.

* - High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program
https://haarp.gi.alaska.edu/
 
I wrote up a piece about all the so called anomalies and conspiracies.
Lights, animal behavior, HAARP, space weapons from NATO, correlations, etc.

Anomalous claims from Turkey-Syria earthquake 2023 (Spooky Geology)
With a flood of images and videos coming out of the affected area in southern and central Turkey and western Syria from the February 6, 2023 series of quakes, there are MANY inaccuracies, misattributed content, conspiracies, and pseudoscientific claims being shared and promoted by nonexperts. It is sad because the real disaster provided more than enough drama to handle. The images from Turkey (Turkiye) and Syria are horrific and disturbing. It is detestable that fake information is embraced and often used for ugly purposes. In this post, I collect some of the more prominent bullshit circulating about the catastrophic event and point out that it’s not that difficult to spot the problems. In short, do not distribute such posts on social media until you have multiple and legitimate sources to support outrageous claims being made.
 
Very interesting interview on GB News just now featuring Dutch seismologist Frank Hoogerbeets, whose Twitter feed warned of a massive earthquake in Turkey 3 days before it occurred.

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OK so "sooner or later" is somewhat vague, but the timing is certainly striking and his explanation that the gravitational pull of the Moon and variations in the Earth's electromagnetic force can be monitored to predict earthquakes, seemed not unreasonable.
May be worthwhile checking out his Twitter feed periodically - especially if you live close to a fault or the edge of a tectonic plate.
 
blessmycottonsocks said:
Very interesting interview on GB News just now featuring Dutch seismologist Frank Hoogerbeets, whose Twitter feed warned of a massive earthquake in Turkey 3 days before it occurred.

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OK so "sooner or later" is somewhat vague, but the timing is certainly striking and his explanation that the gravitational pull of the Moon and variations in the Earth's electromagnetic force can be monitored to predict earthquakes, seemed not unreasonable.
May be worthwhile checking out his Twitter feed periodically - especially if you live close to a fault or the edge of a tectonic plate.
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I've heard his followers being called a "cult". I agree with this. There is no substantive basis for astrological guessing (geological conditions are more complicated than that) but people really want it to be true. Thus, all the attention he's getting. As several articles have said, a broken clock is right twice a day. If interested, I covered in in my Weekly Weird News. https://sharonahill.substack.com/p/weekly-weird-news-for-10-february
 
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…warned of a massive earthquake in Turkey 3 days before it occurred.

OK so "sooner or later" is somewhat vague…
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That’s putting it mildly. I predict that there will be an earthquake in Japan, “sooner or later”. Can l have a Twitter following, please?

(Here’s conclusive proof for anyone who’s still on the fence over my abilities: sooner or later, there will be an eruption of Mount Vesuvius!)

l must be a total cult!

maximus otter
 
Sharon Hill said:
I've heard his followers being called a "cult". I agree with this. There is no substantive basis for astrological guessing (geological conditions are more complicated than that) but people really want it to be true. Thus, all the attention he's getting. As several articles have said, a broken clock is right twice a day. If interested, I covered in in my Weekly Weird News. https://sharonahill.substack.com/p/weekly-weird-news-for-10-february
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But just as the Moon's gravitational pull causes high tides, is it not feasible that it could have an effect on tectonic plates floating on Earth's mantle?

I'm certainly no expert in such matters, but Hoogerbeets' explanation did not strike me as totally woo and cultish.
 
blessmycottonsocks said:
But just as the Moon's gravitational pull causes high tides, is it not feasible that it could have an effect on tectonic plates floating on Earth's mantle?

I'm certainly no expert in such matters, but Hoogerbeets' explanation did not strike me as totally woo and cultish.
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Well, his methods don't, on the surface, sound wild but it's a vast oversimplification. Faults and local stress regimes are very complex and we can't possibly measure all these factors and work them into a prediction model. It's such a large scale, too, so it's hard to experiment as well. Gravitational pull (of the moon, not other planets as has been often suggested) are not going to be a huge factor. It may be the final little bit that causes a highly stressed area to finally pop. This factor has been too small to be noticeable in past studies. It's absolutely false to say you can do prediction on this basis.

The reason I say cultish is because there are many of these "mystic" prognosticators who insist they know some formula scientists don't. And they insist they should be taken seriously. And they send missives to Nature or the media. And it appears Hoogerbeets is one of those people. To make such warnings without a solid scientific basis is dangerous and unethical. We can see Hoogerbeets fall into the "cranks" catagory because he KNOWS he's right, he wants attention for it, he's not willing to change his mind when he's wrong (and he's been wrong A LOT), and he's outside of the scientific community and norms. https://www.npr.org/2023/02/07/1154893886/earthquake-prediction-turkey-usgs
 
Sharon Hill said:
Well, his methods don't, on the surface, sound wild but it's a vast oversimplification. Faults and local stress regimes are very complex and we can't possibly measure all these factors and work them into a prediction model. It's such a large scale, too, so it's hard to experiment as well. Gravitational pull (of the moon, not other planets as has been often suggested) are not going to be a huge factor. It may be the final little bit that causes a highly stressed area to finally pop. This factor has been too small to be noticeable in past studies. It's absolutely false to say you can do prediction on this basis.

The reason I say cultish is because there are many of these "mystic" prognosticators who insist they know some formula scientists don't. And they insist they should be taken seriously. And they send missives to Nature or the media. And it appears Hoogerbeets is one of those people. To make such warnings without a solid scientific basis is dangerous and unethical. We can see Hoogerbeets fall into the "cranks" catagory because he KNOWS he's right, he wants attention for it, he's not willing to change his mind when he's wrong (and he's been wrong A LOT), and he's outside of the scientific community and norms. https://www.npr.org/2023/02/07/1154893886/earthquake-prediction-turkey-usgs
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I take your point.
Thanks Sharon.
 
I was reminded that Iben Browning did the same sort of prediction stuff at New Madrid Missouri in 1990 (and same "gravity" idea). He failed. But he was more specific on the date and location. And it caused chaos. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iben_Browning
 
After the 21-March quake in Afghanistan, several people in Yamunanagar, India posted a video of a color-changing spot in the sky. Everyone called them "earthquake lights", even the media. But they weren't EQLs. Find out the real source here: https://spookygeology.com/earthquake-lights-pseudoeqls-video-from-india/

What's more frustrating and interesting is that every flash or light in the sky that is caught on mobile phone in relation to earthquake shaking is now labeled "earthquake light" when it's not related to earth stresses at all. I call them "pseudoEQLs".
 

Clickbait “news” exaggerates risk about Pythia’s Oasis​

Researchers who published findings on a warm oceanic spring called Pythia’s Oasis discovered along the Cascadia subduction zone have clarified misinformation disseminated in tabloid media about their work. It’s not common for this to happen even thought it’s extremely common for non-scientific sources to mischaracterize scientists’ work.
https://spookygeology.com/clickbait-news-exaggerates-risk-about-pythias-oasis/
 
Slightly stirred rather than shaken I reckon. Reminds me of when I was woken by the Dublin earthquake in 1984, I thought I was having the DTs.

A 2.5 magnitude earthquake was recorded in County Donegal in the early hours of Saturday morning, experts have said.

The Irish National Seismic Network (INSN) reported that the quake occurred at 01:32 local time near Glenveagh National Park.

It is understood to be one of Ireland's largest onshore earthquakes since records began.

The INSN previously detected a 2.5 magnitude quake on 26 January 2012 on the Fanad peninsula, also in Donegal.

It is operated by the Geophysics section at Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies (DIAS) with support from the Geological Survey Ireland.

Dr Martin Möllhoff from DIAS told BBC NI that Donegal is, seismically, the most active region in Ireland.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce7g37w270no
 
Earthquake in Western France (16 June 2023)

In the Deux-Sevres department one person was slightly injured and treated on the spot, the prefecture said.

"A series of material damage was reported from the southwest of the department," with stone falling off buildings and cracks appearing in walls, the prefecture's statement said.

Further south in the neighbouring Charente-Maritime department cracks appeared in buildings and a power line came down leaving 1,100 homes in the dark.

The earthquake was felt as far afield as Rennes in the north and Bordeaux in the southwest.
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https://www.france24.com/en/europe/...earthquake-hits-large-parts-of-western-france

https://earthquakelist.org/news/2023/06/16/m4-9-earthquake-france-789520/

Some pictures in this Daily Express piece. I suspect the rest of the content reflects their usual reporting standards.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1781812/France-earthquake-hundreds-buildings-uninhabitable
 
In geological terms, a pissweak earthquake occurred about 80km north of me early Sunday morning.

Magnitude 3.1 earthquake strikes Appin region on the outskirts of Sydney's south-west​

A small earthquake has struck the Appin region about 75 kilometres south-west of Sydney.

The 3.1 magnitude tremor just north of Douglas Park happened at 2.05pm on Sunday afternoon, at approximately 3 kilometres below the earth's crust.

A senior seismologist with Geoscience Australia, Hadi Ghasemi, described it as a shallow event.

"We generally consider it a small earthquake," Mr Ghasemi said.

"For people close to the epicentre, it would have felt like a short, sharp movement followed by a few more … which pass very quickly."

He said the event was unlikely to have caused any damage to buildings or other structures.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06...-appin-region-north-of-douglas-park/102493976
 
3.3 Magnitude quake in Staffordshire

‘A rumbling, then a bang’: Staffordshire hit by 3.3 magnitude earthquake
Residents report houses shaking and windows and doors rattling during tremor, with epicentre under village of Tean

Thu 29 Jun 2023 07.56 BST
People living in Staffordshire reported “rumbling” and rattling windows and doors as the area was hit by a 3.3 magnitude earthquake on Wednesday.

The British Geological Survey (BGS) confirmed the tremor, which had an epicentre 7.3km (4.5 miles) below the village of Tean.

It is the largest of 21 earthquakes to hit the UK in the past two months, beating two 1.8 magnitude tremors felt on the Isle of Mull in May.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/29/staffordshire-hit-by-3-3-magnitude-earthquake
 
A magnitude 3.3 is hardly worth publishing in a local newspaper, never mind The Guardian.
 
The deadliest day.

There are many ways we humans have unleashed devastation on each other – nuclear weapons, pollution, the spread of deadly pathogens, just to name a few.

While it's hard to say with certainty, by many accounts the deadliest day in human history was actually the result of a natural disaster. On the morning of 23 January 1556, a massive earthquake rocked China's Shaanxi province, at the time considered the 'cradle of Chinese civilization'.

The quake only lasted a few seconds but is estimated to have directly killed 100,000 people, with the ensuing cascade of landslides, sinkholes, fires, migration, and famine killing an estimated total of 830,000 people.

Of course, that's nowhere near as high as the total death tolls of major events like WWI and WWI, or even pandemics, famines, or floods.

But when considering a single day of devastation, the Shaanxi earthquake – also known as the Jiajing earthquake because it struck under the reign of the Jiajing Emperor of the Ming dynasty – is widely considered the most fatal we know of. It's also listed as the deadliest recorded earthquake in history.

The event is only thought to have had a magnitude of 8.0 to 8.3. Many more powerful earthquakes have occurred both before and afterwards. But due to the geology and urban design of the area at the time, it caused disproportionately massive destruction to the surrounding cities of Huaxian, Weinan, and Huayin.

The Local Annals, which according to History.com date back to 1177 BCE, describe the destruction caused by the quake in rare detail.

A translated quote from the Annals claims that mountains and rivers changed places.

"In some places, the ground suddenly rose up and formed new hills, or it sank abruptly and became new valleys. In other areas, a stream burst out in an instant, or the ground broke and new gullies appeared. Huts, official houses, temples and city walls collapsed all of a sudden."
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It's recorded that fissures opened up in the ground that were more than 18 meters (60 feet deep). ...

https://www.sciencealert.com/what-was-behind-the-deadliest-day-in-human-history
 
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