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IChing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-30-05 11:31 AM
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Earth trembles as big winds move in
02 July 2005
NewScientist.com news service
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Randall Peters, Mercer University
R Peters paper
Hurricane Charley, Wikipedia

HURRICANES can trigger swarms of weak earthquakes and even set the Earth vibrating, according to the first study of such effects.

When Hurricane Charley slammed into Florida in August 2004, physicist Randall Peters of Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, had a seismometer ready to monitor any vibrations in the Earth's crust. He did so for over 36 hours as Charley travelled briefly over Florida, then slid back out into the Atlantic.

As the hurricane reached land, the seismometer recorded a series of "micro-tremors" from the Earth's crust. This happened again as the storm moved back out to sea. Then, as Charley grazed the continental shelf on its way out, it caused a sharp seismic spike. "I suspect the storm triggered a subterranean landslide," says Peters.

More surprisingly, the storm also caused the Earth to vibrate>>>>>snip

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/earth/mg18625065.900
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-30-05 11:38 AM
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1. Please add - Those who want to make money off of OIL SHALE
want to heat geological strata to get it to release the oil!!

They also talk about building a wall of ice around the strata that they are heating (to acquire the oil out of it) - a wall of ice to keep the resulting oil from seeping away into other strata. Sounds crazy doesn't it?

How would they cool-down then what they just heated to obtain HOW MUCH Oil? - which is poison anyway.

Have you heard of the Apollo Alliance?
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