Earthquake Survival Kits

6 Comments

1. iiLaala13
   Posted September 16, 2010 at 9:20 am | Permalink

2. Curiosity
   Posted September 17, 2010 at 3:45 am | Permalink

   34: C) global ocean currents

   35: b

   36: a

   38: I don't know

3. Passerby
   Posted September 20, 2010 at 9:47 am | Permalink

   You can make sense of the earthquake graphic if you superimpose it over another graphic from wikipedia, using a simple graphics rendering program – a simple but effective program (freeware, too) called paint.net works really well.

   Paste in the earthquake map above. Go to Wikipedia page on mid-atlantic ridge, The graphic you want is near the bottom, right hand side. Right-click copy it and paste it as a second layer, then, with that being your active layer, go the layer dropdown menu, select layer properties, and slide the tranparency slider to the middle. Then use the image edge boxes of the semi-transparent overlay image to shrink and reposition the overlay until it matches the contours of the Iceland earthquake map underneath. Click to fix it in place.

   You should now see that the earthquake pattern matches the ridge contours and that many or most of the shakes lie on the edges of the main glaciers, with the exception of the green-starred quakes.

   There is a lovely explanation of the confluence of weather patterns that produced the unusual cold and historic snow pattern of the 2009-2010 winter. This pattern also affected Iceland, and so *may* be a contributing factor to the mild earthquake swarm along the southwestern leg of the mid-Atlantic Ridge underlying Iceland.

   Likewise, unusual weather accumulations in the upper Western Plains may explain the mild, shallow Yellowstone swarm of 2009-2010.

   http://sites.google.com/site/whythe2009winterissocold/

4. ReneeStudioCity
   Posted October 27, 2010 at 10:40 am | Permalink

   Hi! I’m Renee from Los Angeles. I’m at work, where I’m paying for the various shows that air on the 2networks I work for, however we keep having little earthquakes today – nothing big but big enough to rattle the building and where we are on the 15th floor, that means the whole building shakes. It’s unnerving. Hopefully tonight I’ll be able to go home and do some sewing to relax!!!

5. Nightversionn
   Posted November 5, 2010 at 6:28 am | Permalink

   I hear flat earth, the cooling deniers must be active on this blog.

6. johnqm15
   Posted November 10, 2010 at 9:26 pm | Permalink

   1. Communication (i.e. satallites)
   2. Soil with high mineral contents, and deep covering of sediments.
   3. spiral
   4. fusion
   5. focus
   6. true
   7. don't know
   8. gravity
   Hope this helps!!!