Devastating Alaska earthquake
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Anonymous
Wait. Assuming that the posters responding are women, are we assuming Seimologist is a man? Seismologist, are you a man? |
Anonymous
First to swoon here. I don't care if this seismologist is a man or a woman. (Although if you are familiar with the field, it's most likely a guy.) |
Anonymous
Are you assuming PPs are straight? 
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Anonymous
Nice deflection attempt, but there is absolutely no denying that soaring temperatures have caused a dramatic increase in earthquake actively all over the world as the planet itself has started to expand due to the increased heat. Have you ever baked a loaf of bread in an oven? Notice how it swells as it gets hotter? That's what our entire planet is doing. It's swelling and expanding from the heat. And that causes earthquakes. |
Anonymous
I am a man. All of the basement seismometers in NoVA are owned by men (I know who they are  . The hardware is remarkably easy to set up. it is from https://raspberryshake.org. It costs a few to several hundred dollars. The device works remarkably well.
As for swooning for me, I never thought my PhD in seismology could be used to pick up women. In my generation, most seismologist were male (80+%), but today, about half of the grad students are female. I think this is great. |
Anonymous
I am from Southern California so when I think of seismologists I think of think of the amazing Caltech professor- a woman who was always on the news explaining the magnitude, epicenter, etc. Ask anyone from Southern California and they will know who I am talking about. |
Anonymous
| I am waiting for Trump to tweet if the Alaskans had only raked their techtonoc plates this could have been prevented. |
Anonymous
Quick making up things. The plates move and shift. Devastating earthquakes happen on these fault lines throughout history. Powerful earthquakes along fault lines have not increased. This is a fact. The plates are constantly moving, shifting, and slipping. How do you think we got mountain ranges and canyons? We are past due for a major earthquake in California. We are also very past due a major earthquake in southern Missouri near Arkansas along the New Madrid Fault. When it is meant to happen, it will happen. The warming of our atmosphere does not cause earthquakes. |
Anonymous
Seismologist, please tell that warming poster that earthquakes along fault lines are caused by tectonic plates shifting, not fracking and not atmospheric warming. |
Anonymous
I already did. 0733 was by me. |
Anonymous
Seismologist here. I would no say we are past due. A better way to look at it is an earthquake can occur at any time in CA, MO, AK, OR, WA and even VA. Now, the size might differ. The thing about earthquakes is they are not inherently dangerous. It is the building response that is the problem. If the building survive, people will be fine. If they collapse (e.g., Haiti), it is bad. |
Anonymous
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Thanks seismologists.
So have devastating earthquakes increased? Or have the basically muddled along appearing periodically when the plates need to shift? Or actually decreased? |
Anonymous
You are talking about Lucy Jones. She is not a Caltech professor, but rather was a scientist at the USGS office in Pasadena (which sits in the Caltech seismology laboratory). I believe she has retired from the USGS. She wrote a book about the human effects of big disasters, titled "The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (and What We Can Do About Them) ". I imagine she will be here in DC the week of the 10-14 as the fall American Geophysical Union Meeting will be in DC. |
Anonymous
Earthquakes of a particular matter are more or less constant. There is about 1 M=8 per year and 1 M=9 per decade, 1 M=7 per month, 1 M=6 per week, and 1 M=5 per day. These are global averages. Devastation may be increasing because devastation relates to human experience. With more people, there are more effects, so more devastation. |
Anonymous
matter should be magnitude. |