Earthquake Hits DC--REALLY? I Guess That Makes it Kind of Political

Are you saying that the Japanese hi-jacked our HAARP facility and used it against us?

 

I found this article interesting from the Live Science web site.

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Rebounding crust
One particular feature that can change the balance of forces in Earth's crust is ice, in the form of glaciers and ice sheets that cover much of the area around Earth's poles plus mountains at all latitudes. The weight of ice depresses the crust on which it sits.
As the ice melts, the crust below no longer has anything sitting on top of it, and so can rebound fairly rapidly (by geological standards). (This rebounding is actually occurring now as a result of the end of the last Ice Age: The retreat of massive ice sheets from the northern United States and Canada has allowed the crust in these areas to bounce back.)
Areas of rebounding crust could change the stresses acting on earthquake faults and volcanoes in the crust.
"In places like Iceland, for example, where you have the Eyjafjallajökull ice sheet, which wouldn't survive [global warming], and you've got lots of volcanoes under that, the unloading effect can trigger eruptions," McGuire said.
With the changing dynamics in the crust, faults could also be destabilized, which could bring a whole host of other problems.
"It's not just the volcanoes. Obviously if you load and unload active faults, then you're liable to trigger earthquakes," McGuire told LiveScience, noting that there is ample evidence for this association in past climate change events.
"At the end of the last Ice Age, there was a great increase in seismicity along the margins of the ice sheets in Scandinavia and places like this, and that triggered these huge submarine landsides which generated tsunamis," McGuire said. "So you've got the whole range of geological hazards there that can result from if we see this big catastrophic melting."
Roland Burgmann, a geologist at the University of California, Berkeley, agrees that changes in ice cover can have significant effects on the underlying crust, but says that more research needs to be done to determine the actual scale of the threat and where the effects are most likely to occur.
Water pressure
Ice melt can have an added consequence because all that melted ice has to go somewhere—namely, the ocean.
And ice melt won't be the only factor changing sea levels: as ocean temperatures rise, the water itself expands (a process called thermal expansion).
As all that extra water piles up, it could apply pressure to faults near coastlines.
"The added load of the water bends the crust, and that means that you tend to get tensional conditions in the upper part of the crust and compressional a bit lower down, just as if you bend a plank of wood or something," McGuire explained.
These compressional forces could push out any magma lying around underneath a volcano, triggering an eruption. (This mechanism is actually believed to be the cause of the seasonal eruptions of Alaska's Pavlof volcano, which erupts every winter when sea levels are higher.)
McGuire conducted a study that was published in the journal Nature in 1997 that looked at the connection between the change in the rate of sea level rise and volcanic activity in the Mediterranean for the past 80,000 years and found that when sea level rose quickly, more volcanic eruptions occurred, increasing by a whopping 300 percent.
If today's worst-case global warming scenarios of catastrophic melting of glaciers and ice sheets come to pass, sea levels could rise rapidly, wreaking all sorts of geological havoc "comparable with the most rapid increases in sea level that we've seen in the last 15,000 years," McGuire said.
Burgmann isn't too worried about sea level rise causing more earthquakes or volcanic eruptions though, noting that catastrophic rates of sea level rise in the future are uncertain and that the current rate of rise—about 0.12 inches per year (3 millimeters per year)—isn't enough to destabilize the crust.
"It would take a long time to add up to a significant amount," Burgmann said—so while it's an area of research to keep an eye on, it's unlikely to have any disastrous consequences, at least for now.

 

Global Warming... Global Shwarming

 

Nah dude. They have their own facility. They might have worked out a deal with the Russians too because theirs is light years ahead of ours.

 

Straight from the Twilight Zone?

 

The land you've lived on all your life is floating on an ocean of lava and shifts in various directions constantly, though most of the time it happens unnoticed by those living on it since the movements are minute. Moen's article, and it's implications, is nothing new to me but was refreshing to see someone else mentioning it. Rebounding is one of many reasons why land rises and falls, but is becoming more understood now that technology allows scientists to measure land-movements more accurately.

 

Straight from the ozone zone, amongst the comfort and fantasy of the wealthy and disconnected.

 

Why can't we use our HAARP to blow Irene out to sea?

 

You kiddin'? HAARP IS steering Irene! Bottled water sales were suffering so, they came up with this.

 

Who is steering you?

 

Joe Mama?

 

I must confess, I ordered HAARP to create Irene and aim it at Atlantic City. The earthquake I had them create failed to destroy Trump. I have to destroy him since he hasn't provided proof of his citizenship like I have, for I am Obama.

 

You know he doesn't control any of the Trump Casinos anymore don't you?

 

Well, HAARP doesn't exist, and if it does, it's only for experimental and wonderful for all mankind. 9/11 is exactly what the goobment says it was. JFK was killed by a lone gunman, with nobody elses involvement, and on and on. All is well and all is good. No chance any of this is anything but whacko nonsense. LOL
Yes...we're doomed, and we deserve it. I just hope the ultra elite suffer extraordinarily painfully before being cast into Hell. Jerk*ffs.

 

Oh, HAARP exists... and they've admitted to fiddling with the atmosphere.

No way would I believe the 9-11 conspiracies... IMO, the whole premise is ridiculous.

IMO, the official verdict on the JFK shooting was flawed, for investigative failures. To me, the clincher is the film of JFK getting shot in the head. It clearly shows his head flying backwards ...towards where the bullet supposedly came from. I'm certain Oswald fired several shots from his position, but the fatal one (the one I'm talking about) came from the front, not the back. Some years later a mob boss in Louisiana admitted/bragged about having taken a part in it. It's far from a certainty, but IMO, the man he hired was the shooter who fired the fatal shot.

Not everything the whackos talk about is nonsense, but their credibility is near non-existant because they jump to conclusions, too often without proof. When they DO provide evidence, it is almost always debunked easily, though technology is helping the whackos make better fake videos and stills. IMO, they need to get laid more often LOL

 

WOW! Tom has just created a whole other class of people....the "ultra elite"!!

 

You're weird.

 

Let's see... the Middle Class goes all the way up to 98.5% of all earners. That would mean the Upper Class are probably the next 1.48% of earners. That would make the Elite Class probably the next .0197% and the Super Elite Class would be the next 0.000295% after that. That means that the Ultra Elite Class must be the Top 0.000004925% of all earners. If we find that guy, we need to beat the crap out of him.

 

I think that would then be a hate crime. Now if you beat the guy up randomly, then that is ok. Otherwise, hate crime. Pretty sure.

 

What is this world coming to when you can't even beat up a rich guy without it being a hate crime? No wonder the country is in the crapper.