When I saw that my first thought was Telsa.

When Telsa lived in New York he was doing his work and caused shaking like an earthquake..... when he passed on his work was taken by our government and it wouldn't surprise me if they have developed this technology and are able to create these types of situations.

NASA has satillites that are able to map fault areas and they are finding there are thousands of Volcano's underwater they did not know of and that fault lines are more extensive then they knew.

Of course they are not sharing this with the people because they can use this to there greedy benefits.

Shame Telsa wanted his work to benefit the people and be for the good but our government saw the benefits of the destruction it could cause and will in time use it for evil deeds no doubt.

Good find of that chart and I do think something man made is in the works.
Actually a hugh destructive quake with much life lost would be just the right thing for Georgie to execute his Executive Order and stay as Leader not

As with everything time will tell, just putting forth a thought and sharing which I shouldn't do.

From an Elliott Wave (wave principle of technical data analysis) it looks like we are ending a Wave 4 and about to enter a Wave 5 of a 5 wave Impulse Move. Wave 5s are often extensions (meaning that they can dwart the previous waves)....Impulse waves = 5 up or down w the dominant trend and Corrective waves = 3 counter trend.

I don't know if this was pointed out before, but wouldn't the increase of technology account for the large spikes in the late 1990-2006

Interesting data. While I think much has to be attributed to better tech I suspect it doesn't account for all of it. All the warnings and talk about New Madrid have grabbed my attention.

Originally posted by Blaine91555
After reviewing the USGS data this was taken from, it is apparent that the reported earthquakes over magnitude 6 has indeed increased greatly as communications technology, seismological instruments and information dissemination developed.

This may be a bit of a red-herring because of the above. We need to see how it correlates to the placement of measurement devices around the world. Has there been a large increase in ability to measure earthquakes in uninhabited or undeveloped areas going on at a similar rate to the increase?

The chart is simply a graph of reported quakes over 6 in magnitude. For that reason you would have to know many other details to even know if it is a true increase. Considering it is being used as a tool to sell a product and as an advertising vehicle on C2C, well you get the picture.

The person who put the information together should have pointed that out in the interest of intellectual honesty and not allowed it to be presented without all available information pertinent to the claim. After all their income relies some what on using fear to sell.

i agree...there has been an increase in quantity of measuring equipment placed around the globe. what you need is to evaluate the same areas of previously placed instrumentation for the last 30 or even 20 years and use only those in a relationship type of graph.

I searched around, but could find no charts that date before 1900.

I'd like to see the statistical data from before the industrialization of the world. I'm of the opinion that everything has a purpose. And in so stating, am of the opinion that sucking the earth dry of it's natural resources (i.e.: OIL or COAL) can't be a good thing. And, don't forget about all the underground nuclear tests that nations of this world conduct - which are many more than you hear about. North Korea was the last that made acclaimed news.

If the charts remains fairly constant, with a few exceptions here and there, with that of the past half century, I'd say maybe we are the architects of our own destruction.

Just speculating here, but, wouldn't also be fair to say that the spike could be part of a natural cycle? As the plates move and build up pressure I would think you would see a lot of small activity up until the point when the pressure was excessive, just before the plate moves which causes the earthquake.


my 2 cents. I know nothing about this topic.

Originally posted by asmeone2
Oh my. I suppose all I can say, is Jesus must be coming

That's the first thought that crossed my mind.

Originally posted by asmeone2
Oh my. I suppose all I can say, is Jesus must be coming

Yep, all the way from Mexico.

So who has an opinion that any recent earthquake might have been started via artificial means? just a question. i'm on the fence with that one, but believe it's very possible to do.