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Fake Earthquake Detected In Mexico City After Player's Goal In World Cup Match (abc7.com)
According to officials in Mexico, an artificial earthquake was reported in Mexico City that was possibly caused by "massive jumps during the goal from the Mexico national soccer team" on Sunday. KABC reports: Hirving Lozano scored the lone goal in the 35th minute, picking up Javier Hernandez's pass inside the penalty area and beating Mesut Ozil before shooting past Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer from 10 yards. The goal decided the match -- a match Germany didn't expect to lose. Mexico upset Germany, the defending champion, 1-0. The loss meant Germany became the third defending champion in the last 16 years to lose its opening match at the World Cup. "Two monitoring stations in Mexico City picked up the temblor the same time Lozano scored, 35 minutes into the match," reports USA Today. "Seismologists in Chile also said that their instruments detected an artificial temblor at the same time."
During the World Cup, why do so many immigrants to the US fly the flag of the shithole country that they left? I've seen numerous cars flying flags for terrible places like Morocco, Tunisia, Nigeria, and Colombia. It's fine if you legally immigrate to the US to live a better life, but please don't do something disrespectful like flying the flag of some shithole nation that you fled from!
People idolize the past. Romanticize it. Meanwhile everyone left there because it didnâ(TM)t offer something core to them that they were willing to uproot their entire life and everyone they know. Safety. Comfort. Employment. Opportunity.
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The Apollo missions
speaking of fake things...
I don't think they should jump to any conclusions.
Maybe someone should make a mat for that?
Is it just me, or has "Fake" now become one of those annoying headline clickbait words?
Anyhow, it's just a man-made seismic event. And it's not like this hasn't been happening for a very long time. I recall various local sports events triggering nearby seismometers, which seems to be a favorite story in local news. These instruments are incredibly sensitive, and will pick up stadium crowds, construction, excavation blasts, and of course, underground nuclear tests.
Good for Mexico, I guess, but not sure why this is notable for Slashdot.
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Southern Ontario is already in a mild earthquake zone. I remember the disconcerting feeling of the office building I was in swaying.
It was similar to one of the question sent to XKCD : "What would happen if everyone on earth stood as close to each other as they could and jumped, everyone landing on the ground at the same instant?"
https://what-if.xkcd.com/8/
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Who edits this place anymore?
"detected an artificial temblor"
temblor=tremor in English.
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Only in the fantasy world of the NHRA.
An a marketing exercise they set up sensors on the start line next to the damn things and, what a shock, could measure them!
Guess what,flicking a sensor with your fingernail will also register, rather largely, because there is just a small difference between direct measurement
and measuring through a few (dozens of) miles of dirt and rock - who would have thought!
They measured as a 'magnitude 2.3 earthquake' and then reported that as a 'minor earthquake'. really?
detectable, at a few feet.
And their categories are out of whack too, this is about earthquakes, not Quake (videogame).
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soccer is almost as boring as hockey to watch on television
10 times less boring than baseball!
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Pick a time and say and get millions of people to jump.
Maybe they should call it an Earth Hack just tick us all off.
Nobody in the USA could give a flying rat's ass. :)
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There are stronger statements of Celtic solidarity than a shamrock on a bumper sticker.
just a fat dude jumping up and down will register if you're close enough.
or your boombox.
a km or two away though, nope man, just nope.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
It is certainly within the ability of seismometers to detect nearby people jumping, heck they are can detect people walking nearby. So I am prepared to encounter a story about crowd activity being detected by a local station, there is nothing inherently unreasonable about it.
But the only source for this story appear to be a Spanish language tweet with three seismic channels snippets displayed without scales on any axis, or other identifying information, and with a red and a green line drawn on it. One of them presumably marking the goal.
But the two lines look like they intersect the data stream at random points. Neither one seems to mark anything that stands out from the background activity.
When on-line searching I found absolutely no credible sources coming up, it is all popular media repeating more or less the same thing, but with the "telephone game" effect. Some stories quite magnitudes, but they range from 1 to 3, an energy range 30,000 fold and are probably just speculation reported as fact.
Until someone comes with an actual source for the measurement and a real magnitude measurement (with someone to back it up) I'm dismissing this as BS.
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So it looks like beastquakes don't just occur in Seattle!
Strong earthquake detected in Japan, one day before Japan plays their first worldcup match.
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It was a teal earthquake. The earth quaked, so to speak. Just as real as when an atom bomb goes off or any other event where they measure this type of behaviour.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
My Spanish is still pretty good, but I think I read a 3.5 earthquake detected. My BS meter says a million people couldn't do that.
The goal decided the match -- a match Germany didn't expect to lose. The loss meant Germany became the third defending champion in the last 16 years to lose its opening match at the World Cup.
Let's re-write these sentences another way:
The goal decided the match -- a match Germany was statistically expected to lose.
The loss meant Germany didn't join the ranks of defending champions to win their opening matches, a feat which has only happened once in the past 16 years in the World Cup.
from normal earthquakes with that word!
Seriously, I bet you know *exactly* that that is the intention. And it worked too, given that you understood what was meant.
You just decided you wanted do be a massive dick about it.
And a coward too. Like me. :) (Actually I just didn't bother to create a new account after I stopped coming here, about a decade ago, because it's not worth it.)
Of course it would have been better, to say "man-made" earthquake. ... because it isn't. But it just ... could be better.)
(Although, as a German, I find it strange that English uses "man" to mean "human". I'm not the person who bitches "ooh, sexist!"
Slowly that condition has metastasized and is now spreading from oncology to geology and seismology too, it looks like.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
There's a big difference between artificial and fake. No one tried to FAKE an earthquake, it was simply artificial, as in man-made. Your title is horrible.
This...
/.'s editorial standards, as low as they are, are still better than most sites... but this story isn't just lazy editing, it requires wilful ignorance.
FFS, this.
Seismometers in Mexico picked up movement in the ground like they're meant to that ended up being a false positive... NOT a false earthquake or a fake earthquake, even an artificial one is a stretch (but I'll let the AC slide as its not totally inaccurate). Seismometers pick up on a wide variety of non earthquake or volcano related events such as explosives, construction or stampedes.
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Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
Maybe they should call it an Earth Hack just tick us all off.
Try This One Earth Trick!
This Fake Earthquake Hack Has Scientists Losing Their Minds!
Also, the only thing Americans hate more than football is Mexicans. Sad.
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1.The SJW's are perverted insane fools; still, the vitriol against Mexicans in this 'discussion' triggers even me! You need to scroll down half the thread before you see sane comment.
2.The game is called football. If you insist call the other one American football.
The real APK may be many things, but he is not a racist.
That's simply untrue, I've seen him rail against Jews on more than one occasion.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
Antisemitism is horrific and deplorable, but it is not racism. Nor is homophobia or islamophobia, which are equally execrable.
Maybe I just choose to see the best in people instead of the worst, because I have a heart as big as all outdoors. I'm all about love>hate and we're all brothers and sisters and seek to unite, not divide.
Also, Fuck Trump. I believe in love, but I still have some standards.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Antisemitism is horrific and deplorable, but it is not racism.
Maybe so, but "ethnoreligious hatred" takes more typing. Regardless, I'm less concerned with applying specific labels to APK by definition, and more about pointing out the fact that he's an objectively bad person. I'm sure that he has good parts to him, but they never win in the fights in his head. Even if he has some sort of redeeming quality, he makes a choice to hide that from people and just spew out his shit instead.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
I'm well-known for seeking out the good in all people, but I understand your concern. I will continue to believe in the transforming power of love.
Now have a blessed day and remember, Fuck Trump.
You are welcome on my lawn.
...Mexico sank 1 cm, and the Earth's spin slowed!
Oh, and 234 million cockroaches were squished!
Self-importance and self-indulgence is the root of ALL evil.
Yes, when I have heard the name PopeRatzo, it is other people praising the power of your love. Hopefully you can make the turd that is APK shine.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black