The End of the World??

[wvjules]

Aren't a lot of earthquakes a sign of "The End of the Wold"? Italy has had a couple and was it Indonesia that had one recently too? Now hundreds in Alaska?

Please just let me go to WDW one last time first!

 

[nativetxn]

I'll take it as a sign, Jules...if it gets me to WDW

 

[BWVDenise]

Yeah, I was wondering.... what's up with all these earthquakes anyway?

 

[jsmith]

There is a big long, complicated scientific explination for this- techtonic plate theory-but the short explination is that if you research earthquakes you will find that large earthquakes frequently occur in clusters where one is sort of "on the other side" of th globe from another-also the issue of "hundreds"in Alaska-my experience in visiting there and having friends live there is that Alaska is very seisemically active and they have "hundreds" of earthquakes every week.

 

[RoqueC]

If God really wanted to get us off this miserable planet, I doubt he'd give us a few shockers first. It'd probably just be some swift move of his hand, and we'd be gone.

That is ofcourse if their is a god.

 

[Jeff in BigD]

Personally I think it'll probably be an asteroid that will take the earth out.

 

[CindyKansas]

We even had an earthquake here in Kansas last week. 3.9 about 120 miles north of us. I have to agree with jsmith on this one though. I took Geology while in college but that was 20 years ago and I don't remember much about it.

 

[WillyJ]

C'mon Jules!! That's a heck of a thing to post on a day all the liquor stores are closed!!!!!!!!

LOL!!!

 

[aahmom1]

Were the liquor stores really closed?

 

[BethR]

Yes aahmom. The liquor stores (and bars) are closed in some states during polling hours.

 

[Rajah]

Originally posted by jsmith
There is a big long, complicated scientific explination for this- techtonic plate theory-but the short explination is that if you research earthquakes you will find that large earthquakes frequently occur in clusters where one is sort of "on the other side" of th globe from another-also the issue of "hundreds"in Alaska-my experience in visiting there and having friends live there is that Alaska is very seisemically active and they have "hundreds" of earthquakes every week.

Exactly. (I majored in Geophysics as an undergrad, and did a research paper on tracing large earthquakes like what we're seeing on opposite sides of the globe -- what we're seeing now is nothing really unusual geologically speaking)

 

[catsrule]

Naw, you'll make it, Jules!