Has anyone else heard earthquake rumors?
My neighbor told my mom this morning that he has a friend who works for the USGS or someplace that monitors earthquakes and that his friend’s boss sent everyone home and told them to spend time with their families…like while they still can. He said it might have something to do with Yosemite?
I just wanted to know if anyone else had heard any rumors? It totally makes sense not to tell the public…that’d just cause chaos and wouldn’t really help anyone.
Haha I think it was more like a volcano triggering a series of earthquakes or something like that, but I don’t even know if thats possible. :] Thanks for your answer! I wasn’t sure whether to believe him, it just aroused my curiosity.
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2 comments
Earth Man on May 17, 2010 at 9:50 pm
Yosemite isn’t even a little bit earthquake-prone. It was carved by glacial action. There are no faults in the area.
Your neighbor is gullible, a fool, a liar, an idiot, or any combination. Further, if there was such a horrible thing coming, there are plenty of university programs that would be seeing it coming too, and we’d all be panicking, because nobody (not even if it was only the USGS) would be able to keep that kind of thing quiet.
No one, NO ONE can predict earthquakes, and I know that the USGS won’t deign to pretend that they can, either. We all hear rumors all the time, and NONE of them are accurate, besides, "We’re going to have an earthquake tomorrow." Yes, we will. We always have earthquakes. Only an incredibly few of them are strong enough to care about, even fewer of them take place where we care about, and again… no one can predict them.
It’s a good and stupid myth, or whatever you want to call it.
Soilguy on May 17, 2010 at 9:50 pm
Your neighbor’s friend’s boss says there’ll be an earth-ending earthquake? I should introduce him to my friend’s cousin’s neighbor who knows a guy. I’m betting they’d hit it off.
They can talk about the time they both put their toy poodles in microwave ovens to dry them off, or they can talk about the time when they both got a million bucks for forwarding an e-mail for Bill Gates.
You have well illustrated the way a baseless lie is spread. Attribute it to someone that no one can check out, and claim that the government agency responsible is keeping it a secret to keep the peace. That way, when the agency denies the lie, the liar can say, "What do you expect him/her to say? They have orders to lie to you!"
Please, take this crap somewhere else.