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Can Earthquakes Be Predicted? (2022)

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Re: Can Earthquakes Be Predicted? (2022)

#41

Tension rods, logical idea, never seen before.. and ugly like hell, or do you hide them? All I find quickly is about tension rods for curtains. How common are they? Pluses no need to drill and would work for freestanding, more over just securing with screws to wall?

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Re: Can Earthquakes Be Predicted? (2022)

#42

So basically his answer is “No, and anyone who says you can is lying to get funding.”

hey, i predict 99.7% chance of a 8 magnitude or greater quake along the san andreas (or related faults) within 200 years. now don't complain of a lack of enough advance warning.

Re: Can Earthquakes Be Predicted? (2022)

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despite all the claims to the contrary https://www.youtube.com/@dutchsinse manages to predict earthquakes. (with some variability of course) seems to offend scientific types and be shunned for some reason, and yet the video evidence is there of his forecasts being correct, and his methodology is documented.

Can you give a couple of examples of earthquakes he predicted and link to the exact place or video passage where these predictions happened? Forgive me for not watching hours upon hours of youtube videos, on the off chance that this is true.

>his methodology is documented

How would you summarize it?

Re: Can Earthquakes Be Predicted? (2022)

#44
post #37

So basically his answer is “No, and anyone who says you can is lying to get funding.”

But don't they say ('they say' - legit source) that dogs can predict earthquakes?

Is it possible they're just hearing the sound of them (you can often hear the sound they're making a few seconds before it hits where you are - I live in NZ) before us due to their much better hearing?

Re: Can Earthquakes Be Predicted? (2022)

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post #40

despite all the claims to the contrary https://www.youtube.com/@dutchsinse manages to predict earthquakes. (with some variability of course) seems to offend scientific types and be shunned for some reason, and yet the video evidence is there of his forecasts being correct, and his methodology is documented.

A broken clock is right twice a day.

Re: Can Earthquakes Be Predicted? (2022)

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What if earthquakes could not only be predicted, but manually triggered? Imagine the warfare implications.

The Core - Best b-grade disaster movie of recent times! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298814/

Also Insultingly Bad Movie Physics' #1 pick of all time! http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/core.html

Re: Can Earthquakes Be Predicted? (2022)

#49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fracking does this on a small scale. I had an excellent geology professor, Donald Prothero, who argued manually triggering earthquakes could be a much better idea in high tension areas than waiting for them to happen organically, as we could prepare, and the triggered earthquakes wouldn’t be as bad as waiting for them to happen. But the paperwork would be a nightmare(:

Releasing the tension in small quakes every few months must be preferable to letting it pile up and release every few decades.

It would be preferable, but a litigation nightmare. If 100 houses fall down due to a natural earthquake, no one gets sued. If 2 houses fall down in a "prescribed burn" earthquake, now the entity that caused the earthquake can be sued.
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