Did anyone notice that the Turkey earthquake was really close to the eclipse path from August 11?

-- Jean (jmacmanu@bellsouth.net), August 17, 1999

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My apologies - I forgot to put the OT in the title.

-- Jean (jmacmanu@bellsouth.net), August 17, 1999.

Check out the Global Seismic Monitor (great map) ...

http://www.iris.washington.edu/seismic/60_2040_1_8.html

The display is updated every 30 minutes using data from the National Earthquake Information Center. Earthquakes that have occurred within the last 24 hours are shown with red circles. The circles fade through orange to yellow within 15 days. After 15 days, the circles are replaced by light purple dots that remain on the map for five years. The distribution of seismicity over the past 5 years demonstrates how earthquakes define the boundaries of tectonic plates, and the relationship between topography and seismicity. The Earths shadow illustrates day/night and seasonal changes.

Click in the center of a circle and a list of all events will appear with the event you selected highlighted in yellow and events within 10 degrees of that event highlighted in white. Events that are 6.0 and greater are linked to special information pages that try to explain the where, how and why that particular event occurred. Click on an individual seismic observatory (shown by the purply colored triangles) to bring up a station information page.

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), August 17, 1999.

Sooooooo What???????????

My great Uncle Fred ate tuna sandwiches during the eclipse, which he rarely ever eats...WEIRD Huh!! Perhaps the eclipse had something to do with it......Bwaaaaahahahahahhahahahahhaha.........

-- Craig (craig@ccinet.ab.ca), August 17, 1999.

Craig

The eclipse entered Northern Turkey: within 50 miles of Izmit it was 100% eclipse- at Izmit it was within the 95% eclipse path. Izmit is where the epicenter of the earthquake was - and it was the largest earthquake they have ever had. You may see no causal effect from this eclipse that happened less than a week ago - but it is the type of relational effect that is predicted by astrologers.

-- Jean (jmacmanu@bellsouth.net), August 17, 1999.

yah but.......what about all these planets, etc lining up--can that do it you scientists you?

-- tt (cuddluppy@yahoo.com), August 17, 1999.

Quite possible. Additive gravitational pulls of both sun and moon, the sum of which stressed the plates just a bit more than usual, over a wide area, in a sensitive area. "the straw that broke the camel's back."

-- A (A@AisA.com), August 17, 1999.

Applicability to Y2K being a trigger to bring down the economy: A "Just in Time", "real-time" dependent system perpetually on the edge of crashing (every day, reports of various problems -- MCI crashing, ebay crashing, chem plants blowing up, railroad cars somewhere in limbo [parked on a siding, never to be found again]....). Add Y2K problems, any you have the "straw that breaks the camel's back."

-- A (A@AisA.com), August 17, 1999.

Craig,

You clearly think you are wittier and more clever than do most of the participants on this forum. Please keep posting. You are a source of constant amusement to those of us who have a clue.

-- HaHaHa (h@ha.ha), August 18, 1999.

Good bloody grief. Folks who think that a two-minute *shadow* can cause an earthquake a week later, in this day and age!

The difference in tidal effects between an eclipse, and a non-eclipse day when the sun and the moon aren't *quite* lined up are infinitessimal. In any case, if you hadn't noticed, the moon goes right around the earth about once every 28 days --- so this earthquake happened when the sun and moon were no longer anything like aligned! More like at right angles.

Earthquakes are caused by continental drift, causing stress to build up slowly and release unpredictably suddenly along geological fault lines. These lines are usually pretty well known. Unfortunately they also often create the sort of geography that encourages people to live on them rather than elsewhere. Hence San Francisco, Tokyo, Istanbul ...

Earthquake casualties are as often as not caused by human greed -- buildings put up on the cheap, rather than to survive the inevitable earthquakes to which they well be subjected sometime (usually) long after the builder has pocketed his profit and disappeared.

Which is actually a Y2K connect -- desire for short-term profit encourages construction with poor long-term shock resilience. This clearly applies to buildings. I think it also applies to corporations. Y2K will stress-test corporations, the jerry-built ones are most likely to fail. The ones build on sand (debt) using cheap material (downsized, lowly motivated staffs) by greedy bosses with no thought beyond next year's seven-digit salary and share options.

-- Nigel Arnot (nra@maxwell.ph.kcl.ac.uk), August 19, 1999.

Nigel,

It must be so reassuring to you to know and understand cause and effect as completely as you do. I would assume that you have studied astrology and know that it has no effect in order for you to make a statement such as you did.

Many of the greatest mathematicians and astronomers of history were astrologers. They obviously found something in astrology that had merit.

-- Jean (jmacmanu@bellsouth.net), August 19, 1999.