Comments on: NASA Jet Studies Haiti's Fault Lines for Signs of Further Trouble

By: Jay Warner

Jay Warner — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:21:25 +0000

“I can’t help it,” dept. 1) The huge ice shelf is not changing its weight against the earth – it was floating to start with, and floating after braking off. A floating boat does not put any force (weight) on the bottom of a lake; neither did or does the iceberg.

2) An iceberg 24 by 48 miles is huge, as icebergs go. And it floats, so its relative density is less than 1. The iceberg(s) are well over 1,000 miles from Chile, and much further from Haiti. The mass of a chunk of earth, say 1,00 yards deep by 24 miles wide by whatever it takes to get to Haiti, is far, far greater than that of the iceberg. Compared to the earth’s crust, icebergs are tiny.

What might be the _mechanism_ by which a chunk of iceberg, even one hitting an attached ice shelf, could possibly trigger, much less generate, sliding of tectonic plates? Perhaps some researcher’s could think on this for an afternoon, but I would rather have them mapping the fault lines.

As for expense, perhaps some people would prefer to have no work on earth quakes and fault lines. Then we could be more surprised when one of them takes down our buildings.

By: Jay Warner

Jay Warner — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:10:02 +0000

entry in error.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:50:47 +0000

yea, lets us any event that has anything to do with the earth to generate more money for those global warming fanatics

By: bill kreer

bill kreer — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:50:26 +0000

THERE IS ONE QUESTION THAT ALWAYS ENTER’S MY MIND; WHENEVER I VIEW A NEWS REPORT OF ANY EARTHQUAKES. SINCE WE ARE SEEING SUCH DRASTIC CHANGES IN THE EARTH’S CLIMATE DUE TO GLOBAL WARMING; AND MANY ISLANDS THAT USED TO BE THERE ;NOW COVERED BY SEAWATER ; PLUS JUST RECENTLY BEFORE THE LAST 8.8 EARTHQUALE IN CHILE ; I READ OF A HUGE ICEBERG ; THE SIZE OF THE COUNTRY OF LUXENBURG ;CRASHING INTO THE ANTARTIC MAJOR ICESHELF AND BREAKING OFF ANOTHER HUGE ICEBERG THAT MEASSURED 24 MILES WIDW BY 48 MILES LONG . COULD IT BE POSSIBLE THAT SUCH A HUGE CHANGE OF WEIGHT ON THE POLAR CAPS AND TECTONIC PLATES WOULD CAUSE A SHIFT OF FORCE ON THE FAULT LINE NEXT TO CHILE. AND WAS THERE ANOTHER HUGE CHANGE OF WEIGTH LOSS OR GAIN (( SUCH AS THE NEWLY ADDED WEIGHT OF THE WATER AND LOST WEIGTH OF THE ICE ELSEWHERE )) ON THE EARTH’S TECTONIC PLATE BEFORE THE HAITIAN DEVESTATING EARTHQUAKE. PLUS ALL THE OTHE EARTHQUAKES AROUND THE WORLD. COULD YOUR RESEARCH GROUP PLEASE EXPLORE THIS; WITH ALL YOUR RECORDS AND VAST SOURCE OF KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION ON THE TECTONIC PLATES. SINCE ACTION EQUALS REACTION IT COULD VERY POSSIBLY BE TRUE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND EXPERTISE, BILL KREER

By: Eliza Strickland

Eliza Strickland — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:11:07 +0000

Funny you should mention the Pacific NW, Wendy. I just saw an article in Nature News about new underwater sensors that are being rigged up over the Cascadia fault line. It says the project (funded by federal stimulus money) will "deploy 60 ocean-bottom seismometers off the coasts of Oregon and Washington, at depths of between about 300 metres and 1 kilometre."

By: Wendy

Wendy — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:09:22 +0000

I sure hope they send the jet to fault lines that are expected to spaz out, and haven’t done so recently. The Pacific Northwest, for example.