MOTHER NATURE IS UPSET
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Jeff Edmonton
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Calm down you Crusty Old Earths Crust....you You!!!
Natina13
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Mother Earth needs to take a rest, we seem to be having increasingly larger earthquakes . Hope it is only the tectonic plates shifting and nothing we are doing, that is adding to the problem. The Earth's actual rotation was changed by the Japanese quake....kinda has me wondering....just how much that will affect our planet. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, has estimated that the Japanese earthquake shortened the Earth's day by 1.8 microseconds. Also the axis of the Earth probably shifted about 6.5 inches, which affects how it rotates, but not its position or movement in space. The Chilean earthquake last year, sped up the Earth's rotation and resulted in the loss of 1.26 microseconds. Seems like there is something brewing out there in the universe and it is affecting Earth in a big way, through massive earthquakes, floods, and unusual weather patterns.
Well...I love science, history and sci-fi.....so much nicer to think about, than, what is brewing in the human body
Well...I love science, history and sci-fi.....so much nicer to think about, than, what is brewing in the human body
Stay safe everyone............
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This was in the Austin American Statesman yesterday:
Japan earthquake displaced water in Edwards Aquifer
Energy released from last week's massive earthquake caused the walls of the sprawling aquifer to contract and expand, official says
By David Doolittle
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
The water level of Texas' Edwards Aquifer was displaced about a foot Friday after energy released from a massive earthquake near Japan put the squeeze on the underground rock formation that supplies drinking water for much of Central Texas.
The 9.0-magnitude quake caused its walls to contract and expand, officials with the Edwards Aquifer Authority said Wednesday. A monitor in a Bexar County well that continuously records the aquifer's water level noted the oscillations, which lasted about two hours from late Thursday to early Friday morning, said Geary Schindel , the authority's chief technical officer. The force from the quake took about 15 minutes to reach the aquifer, he said.
"When a wave from an earthquake passes, it slightly compresses and dilates the aquifer, and the water will shoot up and down," Schindel said. "Any time we see a major earthquake, it's commonly recorded in that well. They act as seismographs."
The oscillations during high-energy earthquakes are common in artesian aquifers, or confined aquifers, where the water is pressurized, including the Edwards Aquifer, Schindel said. "We saw Haiti, we saw Sumatra, Japan, a couple in Mexico and Alaska," he said of recent earthquakes.
The well, named J-17 , has been monitoring the aquifer's water level in Bexar County since the 1950s, Schindel said. A float that rests on the water surface hundreds of feet underground is connected to a wire and a wheel that records the level on pen and paper, he said. Water restrictions are tied to readings, Schindel said.
The sprawling aquifer cuts underground through Central Texas and provides drinking water for about 1.7 million people, including most of San Antonio, said Roland Ruiz, spokesman for the regulatory agency that manages and protects the aquifer's San Antonio segment.
Japan earthquake displaced water in Edwards Aquifer
Energy released from last week's massive earthquake caused the walls of the sprawling aquifer to contract and expand, official says
By David Doolittle
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
The water level of Texas' Edwards Aquifer was displaced about a foot Friday after energy released from a massive earthquake near Japan put the squeeze on the underground rock formation that supplies drinking water for much of Central Texas.
The 9.0-magnitude quake caused its walls to contract and expand, officials with the Edwards Aquifer Authority said Wednesday. A monitor in a Bexar County well that continuously records the aquifer's water level noted the oscillations, which lasted about two hours from late Thursday to early Friday morning, said Geary Schindel , the authority's chief technical officer. The force from the quake took about 15 minutes to reach the aquifer, he said.
"When a wave from an earthquake passes, it slightly compresses and dilates the aquifer, and the water will shoot up and down," Schindel said. "Any time we see a major earthquake, it's commonly recorded in that well. They act as seismographs."
The oscillations during high-energy earthquakes are common in artesian aquifers, or confined aquifers, where the water is pressurized, including the Edwards Aquifer, Schindel said. "We saw Haiti, we saw Sumatra, Japan, a couple in Mexico and Alaska," he said of recent earthquakes.
The well, named J-17 , has been monitoring the aquifer's water level in Bexar County since the 1950s, Schindel said. A float that rests on the water surface hundreds of feet underground is connected to a wire and a wheel that records the level on pen and paper, he said. Water restrictions are tied to readings, Schindel said.
The sprawling aquifer cuts underground through Central Texas and provides drinking water for about 1.7 million people, including most of San Antonio, said Roland Ruiz, spokesman for the regulatory agency that manages and protects the aquifer's San Antonio segment.
I didn't like the quake yesterday at all......I've got my bicycle helmet on the desk beside me, and my purse is packed.
hensylee
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Y'all are all going to be just fine this year. I will let you know about next year when I find out.
