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Changes In Rocks Noted Before Earthquakes

Posted by timothy on from the changes-afterward-postulated-too dept.

Smivs writes with this snippet from an article at the BBC, well worth reading: "Scientists have made an important advance in their efforts to predict earthquakes, the journal Nature says. A team of US researchers has detected stress-induced changes in rocks that occurred hours before two small tremors in California's San Andreas Fault. The observations used sensors lowered down holes drilled into the quake zone. The team says we are a long way from routine tremor forecasts but the latest findings hold out hope that such services might be possible one day."

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  1. Duh! by NuclearError · · Score: 5, Funny

    They go from stationary rocks to moving rocks.

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  2. Not good by jbeaupre · · Score: 5, Funny

    Rock-paper-scissors is ruined if you can predict rock. Neither player will ever use it, so no one will use paper either. You'll be left doing scissors over and over forever.

    Wait, oh, nevermind.

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    1. Re:Not good by EdIII · · Score: 2, Funny

      Just use cockroach, shoe, nuclear bomb.

      shoe beats cockroach, nuclear bomb beats the shoe, but the cockroach beats the nuclear bomb.

  3. Re:That would make sense by Goaway · · Score: 2, Funny

    The largest recorded quake in the middle of a tectonic plate occurred right in the middle of a tectonic plate? That's remarkable!