Re: Seismogram question (the 7.0 off Japan yesterday)

Alan wrote:

In article <memo.20051121045543.884A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Alan) wrote:


In article <t9mdnY5-eeLR2RzeRVn-qw@xxxxxxxxxxx>, avtanski@xxxxxxxxxxx (Alexander Avtanski) wrote:


Alexander Avtanski wrote:

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In the interest of keeping the newsgroup archive complete,
here is the end of the story about those seismograms.

Today I got the final word on from USGS (those guys are
really great and took time to reply to my question).

It seems that this is an acceleration sensor (at least this
is the way I understand it).  In this situation, if something
heavy happens to move nearby (for example somebody parks his
car near the sensor, or the fence around the sensor is broken
and a cow walks around), the sensor registers the minute tilt
of the ground as sideways acceleration.  Amazing how
sensitive these things are!

Regards,

- Alex

Such a convenient time for such a thing to happen, don't you think? It's rather like that film crew conveniently being there to film planes flying into buildings.

Do you know any Cuban history? The very first thing that Che Guevara took over was the radio station. Having taken over the radio station he and Fidel Castro were able to win the war despite having innumerable inferior troop numbers.

Then of course, during WW2 the Germans used "Lord Haw Haw" and I rather suspect the BBC was used much as it is being used today. Of course, conspiracy theorists come up with weird and wonderful excuses for "The Woodpecker" that the Russians were using on the short wave during the cold war, but IMHO its primary purpose was most likely a blocking transmitter. And of course, we must throw in the way a pirate radio station in the North Sea, sealed the fate of the Harold Wilson government.

You would think that they would put such sensitive scientific instruments in places where cars could not park close by, or cows break down fences at convenient moments, particularly with them being *scientists*

I'm sorry if I sound so cynical, but I was always told, rather like Margaret Thatcher, that when you are a scientist you check, you check again, and then you check again. The main thing I have in common with Margaret Thatcher is that we were both educated in a grammar school, in the short period of time that the British education service was any good. She must have been one of the first to pass 11+ and attend a grammar school, and sadly, I was one of the last.

Now unfortunately I can't find that story still on Pravda, but it did claim that the Indonesian Earthquake and Tsunami was not a natural event, but something that was supposed to induce some shock and awe instead, and having seen some people's attempts to produce further shock and awe since, I now find myself no longer suffering the doubts that I suffered when I first read that story. And I haven't checked any seismograph readings of the event myself, but as I said, such an occurrence would be preceded by a seismograph reading as the one you have here.

But of course, you are free to believe whatever you want, but all I know is that IMHO, if I see Blair, Bush or Cheney with their mouths open, a lie is coming out.


And if you wonder why I question the integrity of the U.S.G.S spokespersons it is for this reason. Back in the summer there was a report from the C.V.O. saying

Geez, we figured you questioned the integrity of the USGS spokesman because they are employed by the federal government which you despise so much...

Jim (also one of those USGS people, speaking only for myself)

that the heat from the volcano was now melting the glacier, and that the water was running down into the crater and being absorbed through the porous crater floor. Now the one thing I know is that once water enters a volcanic system, the viscosity of the magma is lowered and an eruptive event becomes more likely. Of course if you look right now at the volcano cam, or indeed at the still I have on my web-page, you will see that it is now covered in snow, and one assumes that with the volcano still erupting, that the snow is melting and the meltwater doing the same. From my pages, I have linked in "Mt Fitzgerald" who has been monitoring the situation far longer than I have, and he actually remarks upon the mundanity of the U.S.G.S reports.

This still remains J.M.H.O. and you remain free to believe whatever you like.

Alan

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