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PaDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-29-03 02:01 PM
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Earthquake--Magnitude 6.0 - Hokkaido,, JAPAN REGION
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/Quakes/uscyae.htm
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PaDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-29-03 02:04 PM
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1. and another..
Magnitude 5.7 SOUTHEAST OF LOYALTY ISLANDS
2003 December 29 11:48:42 UTC
http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/neic_cyai.html
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Atman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-29-03 02:05 PM
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2. Call me if you detect swarms of locusts
eom
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Lilith Velkor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-29-03 04:45 PM
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32. That will be next summer
The 17-year cicadas will hit DC then. Man, are the christianoids in this town gonna freak.
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htuttle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-29-03 04:51 PM
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33. Tee Hee!
Here's some fun. Around the time the cicadas come back, lets dump some red aniline dye into the Potomac...
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Superfly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-29-03 04:52 PM
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34. Holy crap, that *is* next year, isn't it?
The last time I hear them, I was a boy scout on my way to NM from Germany. We stopped in DC...long story short, the racket those things put out was incredible!

Do they live down here in VA Beach?
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-29-03 02:06 PM
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3. What's going on? Earthqakes, mudslides, airplane crashes
Geez this has been a horrific week.
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Sapphocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-29-03 03:53 PM
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31. God's mad, and it's something we did
That's what Jerry & Pat said, wasn't it?
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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-29-03 02:06 PM
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4. Let's See How Many Earthquakes Lately
California- magnitude around 6
Iran- magnitude around 6
New Caladonia- magnatude???
Japan- magnatude around 6
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Minstrel Boy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-29-03 02:28 PM
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10. I've read there have been more than 1,000 this week
Though I don't know how much, if at all, that varies from the norm.
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chasqui Donating Member (237 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-29-03 04:54 PM
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35. New Caledonia was a 6
Check out this link:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/Quakes/uscyai.htm
well, a little less than a 6, at 5.7, and bear in mind that the scale is logarithmically linear, so there are powers of 10 involved there. But this is sorta like the pH scale, where 5.7 is really very similar to 6.0.
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54anickel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-29-03 02:09 PM
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5. OK, call me a tinfoiler here but there's has got to be something to
some posts I saw on DU earlier regarding HAARP. I saw in the news that there is a seawide search for OBLs 28 ships for fools. The ELF transmitter here in WI is on. Not saying they are using HAARP to cause these quakes, but perhaps they are an unintended result.

:tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat:
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ewagner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-29-03 02:12 PM
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6. HAARP?
You talking about the facility near Clam Lake?

Please expound.
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arcane1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-29-03 02:23 PM
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8. is this part of the alternative weaponry that Kucinich was against?
I seem to recall some mention of seismic weapons development...?

:shrug:
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54anickel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-29-03 02:33 PM
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12. Yep. That's the one. I'm looking for the orginal link I had that
also mentioned DK.
Found this while looking:
http://www.jerryesmith.com/ha/
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Just Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-29-03 03:07 PM
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19. Very strange stuff,...
,...my ex-military bro' always said that public knowledge of advances were between 15 - 30 years behind current technology. But, this is really weird stuff,...and I definitely do NOT like the potential for abuse of such technology.

I wonder, could this array be experimented with in such a way as to cause a major blackout, say, in the northeastern part of the US. Mind you, I am doing some creative speculation,...but, I am curious.
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54anickel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-29-03 03:14 PM
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22. Well, if you believe in this kind of stuff. Here's the link re blackout
I am not sure if I buy all this HAARP stuff yet, just started looking at it this weekend. Some of the hits you get from google are pretty out there.....

http://conspiracy-history-news.joeuser.com/index.asp?AID=2462
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Just Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-29-03 03:36 PM
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29. I should become a conspiracy theorist 8-)
,...my creative speculation made a direct hit, huh *LOL*!!!
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Minstrel Boy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-29-03 02:27 PM
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9. HAARP is in Alaska,
but there is a smaller, older ELF array near Clam Lake, Wisconsin.

HAARP is the most powerful array on the planet, and is capable of sending tremendous electromagnetic pulses deep beneath the earth's surface, anywhere in the world.

Its purpose is, supposedly, ionospheric research. Lots of speculation, and not a little evidence, that it has more sinister applications.
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ConcernedCanuk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-29-03 03:01 PM
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17. Hmmm - Alaska is VERY busy seismically lately
.
.
. . Is it possible these "quakes" are NOT "natural" ?




http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/Maps/10/210_60.html

a wee bit to think about
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demdave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-29-03 03:31 PM
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26. The earth's most active seismic feature, the circum-Pacific seismic belt,
and the Aleutian Islands, where more earthquakes occur than in the other 49 States combined. More than 80 percent of the planet's tremors occur in the circum-Pacific belt, and about six percent of the large, shallow earthquakes are in the Alaska area, where as many as 4,000 earthquake at various depths are detected in a year.


http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/states/alaska/alaska_history.html
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54anickel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-29-03 02:30 PM
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11. Sorry, blurted out both in the same sentence. Yes, ELF in Clam Lake
The HAARP is in Alaska. I started researching these a bit over the weekend, mainly for my own curiousity as I had notice there weren't a lot of birds moving around. They were all staying pretty close to their home roosts. Wanted to know if the ELF would have that effect on them.
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mmm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-29-03 02:18 PM
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7. Watch for whales to start heading for shore
Tesla would not be pleased
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Superfly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-29-03 02:37 PM
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13. Japan has an earthquake, nobody dies...
Iran has one and tens of thousands die.

It's sickening that these tragedies happen. It's sicker still when a government, such as the Iranian one, does nothing to mitigate the disaster and future ones by requiring earthquake technology on its structures, especially the older ones made of mud, but still occupied by its citizenry.
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Minstrel Boy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-29-03 02:44 PM
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14. The Kobe earthquake
Edited on Mon Dec-29-03 02:45 PM by Minstrel Boy
killed more than 5,000 Japanese in 1995.

Much depends on the population density near the quake's epicentre.
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Superfly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-29-03 02:47 PM
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15. OK, but my point was
when the technology to build homes and retrofit old buildings with earthquake damage reducing items, doesn't the government owe it to its people to make it available and/or required for new structures?
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demdave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-29-03 03:35 PM
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28. What technology are you referring to? This is a mud brick citadal.
I guess they could have torn it down and rebuilt it with modern material, but that would defeat the purpose of preserving it. I think the thing to remember is...nothing stands forever. Even the pyramids are slowly decaying.
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Superfly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-29-03 03:47 PM
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30. Yeah, but nobody lives in the pyramids...
These buildings should not be occupied at all, and a government as rich as Iran's owes it to its people to make sure that the buildings they do live in are up to modern safety standards, not just for earthquakes, but fire, floods, etc.

Every time a natural disaster strikes one of these places, thousands upon thousands die, when at least some measures to mitigate the damage would have, presumably, saved lives. But, the current government is more concerned about arming itself and lining its own coffers, that the people are left to their own devices to build homes, even if they are made of mud, which in the case of Bam, they were.
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Ellen Forradalom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-29-03 03:12 PM
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21. The older, clay-roof structures in Kobe were more deadly
Earthquake building codes still make a difference.
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CivilRightsNow Donating Member (646 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-29-03 03:04 PM
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18. The ancient city of Bam
Has anyone looked into Bam? It is absolutely fascinating.

I bet some religious folks are all a twitter.
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Superfly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-29-03 03:10 PM
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20. Not much of a city, anymore.
Shame, actually, besides thousands of people needlessly dying, that city is forever gone.
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-29-03 03:19 PM
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24. Bam looked like a giant sandcastle
It's amazing it survived for as many centuries as it did.
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Superfly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-29-03 03:24 PM
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25. Before and after
Before



After
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Steven_S Donating Member (810 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-29-03 02:53 PM
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16. ALL YOUR SHAKE ARE BELONG TO US
silly
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jus_the_facts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-29-03 03:17 PM
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23. May be it IS....PLANET X..NIBURU...ENEKI....
:tinfoilhat:

www.cyberspaceorbit.com

:tinfoilhat:



...could just be Mother Earth decidin' to do US harm and reduce the population in her own way too?! :shrug:
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radfringe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-29-03 03:33 PM
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27. possible that in the ring of fire
one quake triggers another... it's looking like it's making a circle

meanwhile, I'd batten things down on the west coast and on up through alaska
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gauguin57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-29-03 06:29 PM
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36. What's that you say,
Mister Freeper? The earthquakes are being caused by ... wha ... Bill Clinton's PENIS?

Whatever you say.
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bvar22 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-03 12:05 AM
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37. Take THAT, Japan!
How dare you boycott beef from our MAD COWS! That'll teach you to cross our fearless chickenhawk leader, georgie bush*! Pat Robertson is georgie*s friend, and HE talks to god!
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