Re: Major Caribbean Earthquakes and Tsunamis a Real Risk

From: George Ver. 4.0.2 (georgeV4.0.2_at_yadayada.net)
Date: 01/16/05 

Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 22:40:54 -0500

"don findlay" <don@tower.net.au> wrote in message
news:1105830846.300105.138790@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>
> Skywise wrote:
> > "don findlay" <don@tower.net.au> wrote in
> news:1105710712.070512.278250
> > @z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com:
> >
> > <Snipola>
> > > Again, the interpretation is the USGS's, not mine. Of course
> there's a
> > > misinterpretation there. That's the point. >
> >
> > Are you saying that both images came from another website?
> >
> > Could you please provide links so we can see them in full context
>
> No, not another website. I drew the images, but of course I had a quick
> squiz to see if I was remembering right,

So, which is it? Did you display them exactly as the USGS did on their site,
or not?

 ..because (after so many
> years)I couldn't (still can't) understand how plate tectonics can live
> with that nonsensical conundrum re. the contradiction in orientation of
> the principle stress axes for the major structures of the ocean floors
> - and still think 'convection'.

So you disagreed with the sense of orientation presented by the USGS,
changed their drawings as presented, then said their drawings were wrong? Is
this what you are saying in a round about way?

Updated George Ver. 4.0.2

  For spreading ridges the principal
> extensional stress axis is 'sideways', but for strike-slip faults, it
> is diagonal ? But spreading *IS* by strike-slip ? Ungh?! I would have
> thought 'strike-slip' would have been ditched yonks ago, from this
> perspective alone. But the convolutions they get into for attempting
> to explain what are simply just 'drop-down' features on transforms are
> just truly unbelievable - and I mean that in its most agitated,
> hyped-up sense. It's woeful to watch all the stuff that gets put
> around that follows from that strike-slip assumption. I sincerely hope
> it has nothing to do with empirical analysis that goes into something
> like the PTWC. (Or why are 'certain people' so quiet on this?) Sites
> I had a quick look at were:-
> http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/beachball.html
> http://www.seismology.harvard.edu/~antolik/balleny_fig4.html
> http://psn.quake.net/dave/fomec.htm
>
> I've never had anything to do with Earthquakes. It seems an
> interesting area, but one right now fraught with the same assumptions,
> myopia, and the just sheer sheep knuckleheaded 'Georgeness'of plate
> tectonics, in the way it takes things out of context, considers things
> 'anatomically', and ignores the bigger picture (an earthquake here, and
> an earthquake there ...Eee-eye ee-eye oh!), ("...and even as the water
> washes over them all, they think they're justified in their belief and
> go down laughing"). Trouble was, 150,000 didn't think it funny at all,
> nor the people who are left. They might not 'deserve' warnings, but
> they'd tap 'George' on his shoulder and suggest he wants more in
> exchange for his allegiance. That's for sure. There's nothing clever
> about making assumptions like that, when there are obvious alternatives
> to explore. I guess we're just witnessing the depth of consensus, and
> the levels it will go to, to justify itself. For all that we don't
> have an answer to why the Earth is getting bigger(any more than we
> don't have an answer to why ships always sink in the harbour rather
> than out at sea), (or what really is the heat engine driving plate
> tectonics) it's no reason to avoid exploring it - condsidering the
> money that gets spent on more useless things. AND THE SPIN-OFF THERE
> COULD BE FROM INVESTIGATING EARTH EXPANSION - OR CALL IT 'GROWTH' IF
> YOU LIKE.
>
>
> > Brian
> > --
> > http://www.skywise711.com - Lasers, Seismology, Astronomy
> >
> > Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes?
>

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