Can 200,000 Women Cause a Boobquake?

An anonymous reader writes "Purdue Senior Jennifer McCreight asked 30 of her friends to dress immodestly Monday to test a claim by an Iranian cleric that immodest women cause earthquakes. Now, over 200,000 women have joined the cause."

Comments

Yes

[Locke2005]

Yes, they can.

Better reporting and more people

[geek2k5]

I seem to recall that the 'increase' is caused by better reporting and a greater number of people that are affected by quakes. Today, with the Internet, an otherwise minor 4.0 in an 'earthquake free' area can be reported world wide in minutes

Re:200,000? Try just one.

[brainboyz]

That's not a boobquake, that's a flapquake. Quite different. Boobquakes are enjoyable.

Rigor

[zmaragdus]

I think they should go for statistical rigorousness with this one. You need a large sample size to invoke the "Law of Large Numbers." I am all in favor of additional boobquake days to help formulate a theory.

6.5? Not bad, not bad at all.

[FlameWise]

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Southeast_Taiwan_earthquake:

A 6.5 magnitude earthquake occurred on April 26, 2010 in the sea Southeast of Taiwan.

This calls for a new Buddhist Koan

[Locke2005]

If double D's flap in the breeze and nobody sees them, do they still cause an earthquake?

Re:is it just me or is there really an increase

[WrongMonkey]

No need to write a script, they've already compiled the data for you:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/year/eqstats.php

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/year/graphs.php