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Is This The Big One?

Posted by timothy on from the shaky-ground dept.

Quivering Coward writes "There has been a marked increase in seismic activity in southern California in the past several days," pointing to this map from Caltech Earthquake Net, including a 5.2 and 3.6 this morning (2004/06/15). "Could this be the big one? Is 'the big one' ever going to happen? NASA is doing their part to predict the future of Earthquakes."

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  1. What happens when I click on an earthquake? by Bob+Cat+-+NYMPHS · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's from the Caltech quake map link. heehee.

    Anyway. A couple of small quakes and /. starts worrying about the end of the world? Get real.

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    1. Re:What happens when I click on an earthquake? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Southern Cali == world?? You must be American.

      Leaping at every opportunity to trot out the tired old anti-US jokes? You must be yet another european with a deep-seated inferiority complex.

      As for those mindless shows, I've been over there and you take them far more seriously than we do here. Get over yourself.

    2. Re:What happens when I click on an earthquake? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Sure that's possible, but it's also possible that all of the shakin is releasing built up pressure, and you really need to be afraid when it stops shaking.

  2. Hopefully... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    too much crap coming from Hollywood these days...

  3. Ahem... by linuxwrangler · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...How the bleep did this get by the editors. All this is is links to a couple of generic sites on earthquakes and some vague and unsubstantiated assertion about increasing frequency.

    The first link points to a recent earthquake map that has been available for ages. It's on my bookmarks to look at when there is an interesting event.

    The other is an article on NASA earthquake research.

    Nothing in either points to an increase in frequency and indeed typing "earthquake" and "increase" into Google news turns up no interesting articles.

    I guess those top-secret black government agencies have done a great job of keeping this monumental (non) story out of the news.

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    1. Re:Ahem... by GeoGreg · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Agreed. Not much news here. Plus, there is no particular reason (that I know of anyway) to believe that the next Big Quake will be preceded by increased seismic activity.

  4. Re:Yep, any day now. By which I mean next 100000 d by somapoi · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Umm ... .it floats on magma .. not on the ocean.

  5. If you keep making predictions... by Chemisor · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you keep making predictions, eventually one of them will come true.