I heard about this but I’m not sure how they have an impact on the Earth’s axial rotation. They said these earthquakes cause the Earth to speed up in axial rotation and there was one today; I hope to God and in my heart, no innocent people were caught in it. That would be bad. Would we have to skip a second or make them internally shorter on the other hand?
how and why the behavior of seismic body waves changes at the different boundaries within
the Earth (refraction, reflection).
"The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof." But what did God say about earthquakes?
soooooooooooo…. they said we have nothing to worry about… with all the hype of the obvious "2012" thing, but more specifically, the fact that the earth is going through a lot more the past few years is pretty bad.
tell me this doesn’t add up to something?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20100609/sc_space/moreactivesunmeansnastysolarstormsahead
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/year/eqstats.php
-note- the stats aren’t as high as past years, but this year isn’t even half way over and already it’s above half the other years.
http://hogueprophecy.com/2010/natural-disasters-the-quickening-in-2010/
another thing – the chile earthquake shifted the earth’s axis, and our days are shorter by a fraction of a second, i know not to worry about a fraction of a second, but eventually it adds up… 1/50th of a second is a whole second in just 50 days, a minute in a couple years, and will eventually add up to an hour to a whole day to a couple days, to a week, to a month, to a couple months to half a year, to a whole year (that’s giving the half a second or whatever it is, hundreds of years to take away a whole years worth of time)… i plan on living a long healthy life, so why would i want a day or two taken out of my routine?
no, i’m not being paranoid… frankly, i don’t give a crap. i just wanted to post a question to make people think. SO please don’t put up "omg you’re so dumb" "wow you need to kill yourself" "wtf you believe everything you read" answers.
ten points will go to the person who puts the most thought into their answer… thus, you won’t get 10 points by posting "posting for points" because that’s not going to get you anywhere.
i applaud you dylan, although, you’re a dick… so i have to give you a thumbs down.
gexi… i’ll be with you in hell because i don’t believe in it either LOL and i don’t think the world is gonna end ^^ i’m not into following the rest of the obvious cattle into the cage so we can be slaughtered. but, i don’t believe nothing is going to happen.. i’d rather be undecided because that way whatever happens happens and i can accept it either way.
I’m writing a research paper and I need to know how far from the earth’s crust the epicenter of the earthquake in Chile. Anyone have any idea? If you have a website that says it could you give me the link too so I can site my sources?
Geologists say that there’s gonna be a Mega earthquake in Southern California very soon since there hasn’t been one since the 1700′s now.. they say that tension in the earth’s crust is rising and that the consequences qould be a total devastation of LA and San Francisco. Do you think its true?
Where on earth has the most earthquakes and volcanic eruptions?
Wake Up!……. For Jesus Christ specially said that “earthquakes in one place after another” would mark “the conclusion of the system of things.”—Matt. 24:3, 7.
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http://www.thehorizonproject.com/earthquakes.cfm
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(Matthew 24:14) And this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come.
Jesus Christ the Faithful Witness Says: . . .Look! I am standing at the door and knocking. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come into his [house] and take the evening meal (Last Days?) with him and he with me. . .(Revelation 3:20)
(Matthew 24:36-42) 36 “Concerning that day and hour nobody knows, neither the angels of the heavens nor the Son, but only the Father. 37 For just as the days of Noah were, so the presence of the Son of man will be. 38 For as they were in those days before the flood, eating and drinking, men marrying and women being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark; 39 and they took no note until the flood came and swept them all away, so the presence of the Son of man will be.
Earthquakes produce two kinds of seismicwaves: he longitudinal primary waves (called P waves) and the transverse secondary waves (called S waves). Both S waves and P waves travel through Earth’s crust and mantle, but at different speeds; the P waves are always faster than the S waves, but their exact speeds depend on depth and location. For the purpose of this exercise, we assume the P wave’s speed to be 8480 m/s while the S waves travel at a slower speed of 4510 m/s.If a seismic station detects a P wave and then 67.2 s later detects an S wave, how far away is the earthquake center? Answer in units of km.
Okay, there have been a lot of earthquakes recently: a small on in Chicago, the one in Haiti, one in Chile, one in Mexico and one near Tibet, and now there’s volcanic activity in Iceland, which is basically a little chunk of land on a fault line. All of the earthquakes except for the 2.5 one in
Chicago have been above 7.0 in magnitude. Does this mean something’s going on with the earth’s crust?
as of late would this mean that the Earth is under pressure internally and needs to release the pressure being heated up over time which in turn would make the Earth’s surface warmer also ? Any links to studies on this matter ? Just curious.
After reading what i typed i meant all the volcanoes erupting lately and if there is a correlation to the Earth heating up. Sorry about that, lol.
Thx Trevor
Thx Antarcticice for the informative link.
Not just the earthquakes and volcanoes but what about theses lights falling from the sky and all these comets appearing in the night sky this year? It’s like Earth gone wild 2010 edition. I am not feeding for conspiracies,if some one has a deep educational explanation I want to know.
If you want to know what I talking about,with the lights and comets falling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC5qtaD9qb0&feature=related
If you want to see the list seismic activity that has happened with year
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.php
have the earth always been quaking?
http://earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/index-eng.php
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/
Thus far, I am underwhelmed with the light quality and quantity generated by these new bulbs, and I feel sure that the mercury is going to contaminate the earth in ways we can’t even imagine, affecting the safety of food crops and water used for bathing, drinking, fish in the ocean…on and on.
Some of ya’ll may have never had an old-style glass thermometer. When those would break, the mercury is the weirdest most out of control stuff to clean up, but as a child, when I saw those little balls rolling across the floor, it was natural to want to play with something. As natural as a kid wanting to play with potato/sow/roly poly bugs Consider the people who clean up after earthquake damage, house fires. Consider the cleaning lady who cleans up after a wild frat party w/Broken Stuff everywhere. Life is messy. You can’t contain all that mercury because Accidents and Life are not neat and tidy.
I think the new light bulbs are just the latest Green Fashion.
ANOTHER earthquake In Turkey
I know that the Earth is constantly having earthquakes here and there but i’m talking about the ones that killed LOADS of people the past few months.
Wasn’t there an earthquake in Taiwan LAST WEEK?
WTF
R.I.P to all the people that have lost their lives. 
Can someone give me a scientific answer?
whats the point of building and underground home if there will be earthquakes and other natural disasters? wont it be worst because the ground will crack open and you will suffocate?
when the earth cracks open, the dirt will cover the underground home.. it sounds safer on the top of the ground than the bottom to me.. but what do you think?
Lately, I have been thinking more and more about the possibility of a doomsday event happening in 2012. Theories such as Nibiru/Planet X is a lie, as I know it is not possible.
What about the event of a super volcano such as the one under Yellow Stone Park? The Earth has been having bad earthquakes of late, maybe its a sign?
I am interested in the Nemesis theory however, is it possible our Sun could have a companion star?
Post your thoughts. 
so ive been thinking, and ive had an idea. i just wanted it to get to you guys. i don’t believe the world will end in 2012, but ive been seeing HOW it COULD happen.
i would first like to point this out; an earthquake struck haiti, a place already struggling.
one month later: an even bigger earthquake struck. not only is this earthquake bringing tsunamis to other countries, it also so happens that the earths rotation has been changed and our day has become shorter. i don’t know about you guys, but when i heard that there was an earthquake powerful enough to change the earth’s natural course, i felt that this is a power that only a catastrophic event could exceed. think about it: a 2012 disaster would have that kind of effect, and possibly worse. do you guys understand?
what else could end the world?
oh yeah, almost forgot that some very unfriendly people in North Korea are ignoring pleads from other countries and are deciding to go on with their nuclear bomb programs. yeah, i find it very possible that north korea could start a nuclear war or just bomb its enemies.
oh yeah, iran is gaining radioactive elements, right? or some country in the middle east, i cant remember…
what else could destroy the world/human civilization?
i heard about this thing called global warming. just a little thing, really, unless the ice caps melt. if that happens, guess what? its been calculated that cities like New York with their huge sky scrapers would be thousands of feet under water.
if i can remember correctly, earthquakes starting up, the ice caps melting, and a nuclear war would kill us all. and it would fit the mayan prophecy of the end of the world.
i don’t really believe the world will end, but i think that its possible, and with the latest events, that possibility is getting even bigger.
WHY?
is it cause they Know Planete X is getting closer to the earth?
I’m personally afraid of what’s happening now, Haiti’s earthquake, Chile’s earthquake I don’t know what’s going to happen next, i know I’m not suppose to know, but what if it gets worse, I’m really worried about how the earth is behaving and now because of the latest earthquake the days are shorter, and the 2012 is closer and everything is so connected do you think that maybe the end of our world is actually coming closer? Just tell me your opinion, and no mean comments Thanks!
When Jupiter will no longer protect earth from asteroids.
10? 11? 12? Also will it cause major canyon size cracks on earth and make Vegas beach front property like the movie 2012 depicted devouring everything?
Is there a maximum magnitude earthquake you can have? Can you have magnitude 20 or above?
I posted question here cause I didn’t get any answer in the geology forum & since military people know everything.
Oh yeah, Haiti!
Presently I am living in Sikkim since last about 20 years and it has been observed that in the Himalayan Region, as well as in other parts of the earth, most earthquakes occurs at late night or in the early morning.
In the last 20 years only once I have noticed earthquake at 11 AM approx. WHY SO?
How does a natural disaster like volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, earthquakes etc. Influence the earth biological and geological?
Answer greatly needed.
I know that the Mayan calender ends in 2012 (Dec 23 if im not mistaken) and a lot of people think it either means the end of the world or just that it was the end of THEIR calendar…but, I have also recently heard the whole theory of ‘planet x’ or ‘Niberu’<spelling that is basically a planet out of control that will not hit the earth but will throw off the magnetic fields of the earth and cause earthquakes, tsunami’s on a scale not known by man.. there are also pictures of this so called planet x on youtube, is there any truth to this.. what are your thoughts..?
"I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as late figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind. The sky receded like a scroll, rolling up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place."
(Revelations 6:12-14)
Rose: you are equating the imagination of Revelation to the scientific theory of evolution? You might be confusing imagination with curiosity and thirst for knowledge and answers.
SuperAtheist: you’re saying the bible authors were on shrooms? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita
Don’t answer with destruction of our community or something like that. I mean with the Earth. What are the dangers for the Earth?
When food, fuel, power are scarce and expensive. When the sea water will rise between 7 to 43 meter. When hurricane, tornadoes, flood and drought will increase in intensity and reduce our habitat and food supply to a dangerous level. When population increase to 9 Billion. What do we need to do? and Would we able to do something about it or it is no longer humanly possible to correct? Read Luke 21 about the sign of the coming of the Creator for Overhaul job of the earth.
an average movement of about 5m(16ft) along the san andreas fault was associated with the devastating 1906 san fransanciso earthquake that killed people and destroyed properties. assuming that all displacement along the fault was produced by earth motions of this magnitude, how often must such earthquakes have occurred in order to account for the total displacement?
Andrija Mohorovicic’s discovery that waves traveling deeper inside the Earth arrived more quick than waves that traveling along the surface and the Mohorovicic Discontinuity. How are these discoveries important to us? What would have happened today if Mohorovicic never made these discoveries? Thanks for the help in advance. 10 points best answer!