My God, I settled down to read the item I link
here, and frankly I need
not have bothered.
Because it was entitled "Characteristic seismic signals associated with ice sheet and glacier dynamics, Eastern Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica" I
thought this might be an interesting an enlightening document.
I screwed my face up and soldiered on after
They include not only tectonic earthquakes, but also ice related phenomena possibly involving recent global climate change.
because I realise that if things do not mention climate change they don't get looked at.
The summary is this
Summary Several kinds of natural signals were recorded by a seismic experiment on the continental ice sheet in Eastern Dronning Maud Land during
the 2002 austral summer. They include not only tectonic earthquakes, but also ice related phenomena possibly involving recent global climate change.
The recorded signals are classified into (1) a teleseismic event, (2) local ice-quakes and (3) an unidentified event (X-phases).
Interestingly, the frequency content at 2.0 Hz is small in the waveforms recorded by stations in middle part of the seismic profile. On the other
hand, 5.0 Hz and 1.5 Hz components are large at these stations which are above a valley in topography at the interface between the ice sheet and
topmost crust. The abrupt change of topography in the valley might cause both the anomalous frequency content and travel times. The estimated origin
of the unidentified event might be an intraplate earthquake or possibly a large ice-quake around East Antarctica.
Citation: Kanao, M., A. Yamada, M. Yama#a and K. Kainuma (2007), Characteristic Seismic Signals Associated with Ice Sheet & Glacier Dymanics, (sic 
) Eastern Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica, in Antarctica: A Keystone in a Changing World – Online Proceedings of the 10th ISAES, edited by A.K.
Cooper and C.R. Raymond et al., USGS Open-File Report 2007-1047, Extended Abstract 182, 4 p.
They did not need the rest of the paper and could have cut it into squares to serve a more useful purpose because the whole 'content', if you can call
it that, was in the summary.
Of the tiny amount of time they spend talking at all most of it was discussing X-Phases. Is it any wonder that science is in the state it is if this
is the sub-standard shoddy work that is all copy and repetition coming from people who are supposed to be 'in the know'
I have seen way better posts on ATS than this complete and utter load of absolute unadulterated drivel that said nothing at all.
Somewhere, in some long forgotten library sitting on a dusty shelf there is a set of documents from which ALL other papers are derived. No new work is
ever done. Everything is a rehash of what was said before, but that does not matter because the document will be 'cited' in the next rehash and the
number of citations is all that matters.
Drivel drivel drivel! I do not believe anything they say and every day I believe less and less of the nothing they say.
Is there a REAL geologist out there somewhere? One who does original research? One who makes sense and does not speak with rehashed tongue?
nah - wishful thinking PuterMan
edit on 1/1/2012 by PuterMan because: (no reason given)
ETA: I found another paper by the same lead author entitled "Greenland Ice Sheet Dynamics and Glacial Earthquake Activities" - it was longer. 8 pages
of toilet paper this time waffling the whole way through and saying absolutely nothing yet concluding that
We have described several features of cryoseismic signals, particularly involved in the glacial earthquakes associated with the recent ice sheet
dynamics in Greenland.
They did nothing of the sort. Just a load of references and descriptions.
Here is an example
The last four decades of seismicity in Greenland and surrounding regions were investigated by Kanao et al. (2010), as for the all tectonic and
volcanic events plausibly include the glacial earthquakes (Fig. 8). Here, we applied the statistical model of the Epidemic Type Aftershock Sequences
(ETAS), on the basis of the Gutenberg–Richter’s magnitude frequency distribution. The ETAS model is a statistical tool for analyzing the
occurrence times of earthquakes associated with magnitude, and has been used for the discrimination of seismicity patterns in many regions (Ogata,
1988). The model stochastically classifies earthquakes into aftershocks and background events. The background events are obtained by stochastically
removing clustered events or aftershocks. The same procedures were applied for the space-time analyses in seismicity around the Antarctic Plate,
particularly in the vicinity of the Balleny Island region (Himeno et al., 2011).
Where did they apply the ETAS model. There is not one single stitch of data or workings in the whole document. Probably because the basically is no
content again.
Link if you can be bothered with this drivel
edit on 1/1/2012 by PuterMan because: (no reason given)
Has this person seen spectros of the latest microquakes? 
