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The last ten years have been a remarkable time for great earthquakes. Since December 2004 there have been no less than 18 quakes of Mw8.0 or greater -- a rate of more than twice that seen from 1900 to mid-2004.
Laymen are no dumber than the scientists...just less conditioned by their education......
originally posted by: Mianeye
a reply to: PlanetXisHERE
It has still been relatively quiet since Japan 2011.
originally posted by: stirling
a reply to: Mianeye
Its not too surprising they are seemingly downplaying this info.....after all the poo pooing that was done over those who made this same observation...(unofficially of course...)
Laymen are no dumber than the scientists...just less conditioned by their education......which in turn allows them the freedom to see whats happening ........
originally posted by: Rezlooper
As of Jan. 1, 2009 the USGS also stopped tracking quakes less than 4.5 on a worldwide scale but they put this in the fine print at the bottom of their graphs in hopes you'd miss it so that it would appear that there wasn't an obvious trend of increasing smaller earthquakes. As the small quakes continued to increase, the graphs would stay the same because they weren't showing the small quake increases. They flat out denied an increase in large quakes which it looks like the "smart ones" are finally accepting as reality. Quakes of all sizes are increasing, but the small ones are rapidly increasing at alarming rates.
The solar system is travelling through much stormier skies than we thought, and might even be about to pop out of the huge gas cloud we have been gliding through for at least 45,000 years. That's the implication of a multi-decade survey of the interstellar wind buffeting the solar system, which has revealed an unexpected change in the wind's direction.
But then NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX), launched in 2009, revealed something odd: the wind has changed direction. IBEX has been directly sampling neutral helium atoms from the interstellar cloud as part of its mission to map the boundary between the solar system and the rest of the galaxy. Its readings show that, instead of Earth passing through the sun's helium tail in late November, the peak came about a week late, in early December. That indicates a change in wind direction of about 6 degrees in only 40 years.
The fact that the wind is shifting over the span of mere decades means that the interior of the cloud is either unusually turbulent, or that the solar system is a mere 1000 or so years away from punching its way out.
"While there had been hints that something was changing in the environment of the sun, when we finally put all the historical data together it became clear that one can make a strong scientific statement that this change has actually occurred," says Frisch. What the change means is still up for debate. We could be nearing the cloud's edge, or we could still be in the thick of it, pushing our way through an interstellar storm.
originally posted by: aorAki
a reply to: PlanetXisHERE
So nowhere does it say that the has been an overall increase in all magnitudes of earthquakes, only in 'great earthquakes', which, to my understanding doesn't necessarily lead on to there being an increase in earthquakes across the board. It's an important distinction to make....with regards to your assertions of funding etc, in my experience, I haven't seen that. In fact, some of the people I work with love earthquakes so much I swear they write papers about them while they're sleeping....but yeah, carry on dissing the scientists.
originally posted by: Rezlooper
I know I've said many times all quakes were on the rise and I was called out by the "so-called experts" as well. Planet X is right, where are they now?