Earthquake: Coincidence or a corporate oil tragedy?

[Twist_U_Up]

scary stuff

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/123104Limburg/123104limburg.html

December 31, 2004 (Independent Media TV)—Now I don't claim to be an expert on seismic activity, but there has been a series of events which led up to the 9.0 earthquake off the coast of Sumatra which cannot be ignored. This all could be an enormous coincidence, but one must look at the information and choose for themselves whether there is anything to it.

On November 28, Reuters reported that during a three-day span 169 whales and dolphins beached themselves in Tasmania, an island off the southeastern coast of mainland Australia, and in New Zealand. The cause for these beachings is not known, but Bob Brown, a senator in the Australian parliament, said "sound bombing" or seismic tests of ocean floors to test for oil and gas had been carried out near the sites of the Tasmanian beachings recently.

According to Jim Cummings of the Acoustic Ecology Institute, "Seismic surveys utilizing airguns have been taking place in mineral-rich areas of the world's oceans since 1968. Among the areas that have experienced the most intense survey activity are the North Sea, the Beaufort Sea (off Alaska's North Slope), and the Gulf of Mexico; areas around Australia and South America are also current hot-spots of activity.

"The impulses created by the release of air from arrays of up to 24 airguns create low frequency sound waves powerful enough to penetrate up to 40km below the seafloor. The 'source level' of these sound waves is generally over 200dB (and often 230dB or more), roughly comparable to a sound of at least 140-170dB in air."

[sam sarrha]

1. not likely...this not relevent to the butterfly effect,

[FloridaPat]

2. It that were the case, I would think California would be in the ocean

with all the nuclear bomb tests done in Nevada. The real cause is probably all those Christmas ads on US tv being blasted. They went into the ground and as they went toward Asia, the sound waves got bigger and bigger until they surfaced off the coast of Sumatra.

[Zenlitened]

3. Geologists refer to this as...

"The Old Navy Ad Saturation Effect." :D

[pmbryant]

4. Still ridiculous to connect huge, far-away earthquakes to this

It destroys the author's credibility. A shame, because I think there may well be a connection (at least it should be checked out) between the airguns and the whale beachings in Tasmania.

But to try to bring in unrelated earthquakes hundreds or thousands of miles away just strikes me as crass opportunism.

--Peter

[rasputin1952]

5. Perhaps it was the SBV's dumping all of their post-election crap

into the ocean?

Seriously...I doubt there is anything to this. Since 1968 seems to be the line we should be looking at....not many, if any 9.0 earthquakes since '68, except for the recent tragedy.

Two plates released a huge amount of energy, resulting in an earthquake, aftershocks and the tragedy of the tsunami. I find the USGS to be correct on this one.

[enki23]

6. neither. this doesn't even qualify for "coincidence"

as that would imply some nearness in place and/or time. this is complete crap.