Okay... Now i am getting worried.

[Soushi]

There have been a lot of really nasty earthquakes recently. Is this kind of siesmic activity normal, is it just hitting populated area's more than usual? Or is there something else going on here, a planetary shift of some kind.
Does anyone have any idea?
Is anybody else worried?

BTW: My heart goes out to all those affected and hurt.

 

[rockingnic]

I think you may be reaching into it a little too much. It's fine now at least.

 

[JEBWrench]

It's perfectly normal activity. People build near resources, which are often located near areas of seismic activity. Also, with the speed of information these days, you're more likely to hear more detailed information about the activity occurring.

 

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

Earthquakes happen all the time. I think they said England gets loads - they're just so weak they aren't felt.

I'm sure this has happened before anyway - an unlucky seismic year for the world, that's all.

 

[Ldude893]

The melting ice caps put less pressure on fault lines around the Earth, allowing them to open up like old wounds, which explains the increase seismic activity lately.

At least that's what I've heard.

 

[The Zango]

Well according to the Chilean president its Obama's earth quake machine (at least i think its Chilean)

 

[ziggy161]

I hope it doesn't mean anything >_>

 

[Toriver]

What concerns me is the magnitude. We've had 3 major earthquakes of 6.0 or higher in the past half year. It's probably just a continental plate adjusting itself after maybe getting wedged particularly hard under another plate or something along those lines, nothing apocalyptic in scale, but the damage done is still unsettling.

 

[Drexer]

The melting ice caps put less pressure on fault lines around the Earth, allowing them to open up like old wounds, which explains the increase seismic activity lately.

At least that's what I've heard.

And somehow a kilo of ice weighs more than a kilo of water? [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YouFailPhysicsForever]

 

[Ldude893]

The melting ice caps put less pressure on fault lines around the Earth, allowing them to open up like old wounds, which explains the increase seismic activity lately.

At least that's what I've heard.

And somehow a kilo of ice weighs more than a kilo of water? [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YouFailPhysicsForever]

http://www.worldwatch.org/node/4388

 

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

Well according to the Chilean president its Obama's earth quake machine (at least i think its Chilean)

Sounds more like Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan President, though the new Chilean President might be insane, so I wouldn't know.

The melting ice caps put less pressure on fault lines around the Earth, allowing them to open up like old wounds, which explains the increase seismic activity lately.

At least that's what I've heard.

And somehow a kilo of ice weighs more than a kilo of water? [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YouFailPhysicsForever]

http://www.worldwatch.org/node/4388

I have trouble trusting these people. Sure, their goals are worthy, but in order to get the world to listen to them they seem to need to make up things that will scare everyone.

And there's no real point in trying until someone gets the profiteering corporations to stop polluting, which they won't, unless it makes them more money.

 

[Soushi]

The melting ice caps put less pressure on fault lines around the Earth, allowing them to open up like old wounds, which explains the increase seismic activity lately.

At least that's what I've heard.

As far fetched as that sounds... it actually makes a little bit of sense.

 

[Toriver]

The melting ice caps put less pressure on fault lines around the Earth, allowing them to open up like old wounds, which explains the increase seismic activity lately.

At least that's what I've heard.

And somehow a kilo of ice weighs more than a kilo of water? [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YouFailPhysicsForever]

A kilo of ice most certainly can weigh more than a kilo of water. It's the difference between mass and weight. Having a kilo of ice and a kilo of water just mean that you have the same amount of actual stuff (mass) in both. Density needs to also be taken into account when figuring weight. If you have a kilo of something packed into a small space, it will likely weigh less than a kilo of something spread out over a large space. So ice can weigh more than water, even if they are essentially the same substance, because the ice is tightly packed, while the water will be spread out. That's how you can have enough water packed into the relatively small space of the polar ice caps to raise the sea level enough to swallow even rather large islands whole.

 

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

The melting ice caps put less pressure on fault lines around the Earth, allowing them to open up like old wounds, which explains the increase seismic activity lately.

At least that's what I've heard.

And somehow a kilo of ice weighs more than a kilo of water? [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YouFailPhysicsForever]

A kilo of ice most certainly can weigh more than a kilo of water. It's the difference between mass and weight. Having a kilo of ice and a kilo of water just mean that you have the same amount of actual stuff in both. Density needs to also be taken into account when figuring weight. If you have a kilo of something packed into a small space, it will likely weigh less than a kilo of something spread out over a large space. So ice can weigh more than water, even if they are essentially the same substance, because the ice is tightly packed, while the water will be spread out. That's how you can have enough water packed into the relatively small space of the polar ice caps to raise the sea level enough to swallow even rather large islands whole.

Now imagine if you heard all that in Sten's voice.

 

[Soushi]

What concerns me is the magnitude. We've had 3 major earthquakes of 6.0 or higher in the past half year. It's probably just a continental plate adjusting itself after maybe getting wedged particularly hard under another plate or something along those lines, nothing apocalyptic in scale, but the damage done is still unsettling.

That;s what i figure. It just seems like they have been happening a lot and doing a lot more damamge than usual.
I mean, we aren't talking end of the world here, unless of course it creates a bunch of super volcanoes that create a cloud of dust that blankets that sky and chokes us out for thousands of years... but that may just be a hilarious senario that i will now turn in to the next disaster movie. Excuse me *grabs camera and runs out the door as fast as he can*

Coming this July
The clouds.... are upon us
The Age of man... has ended
The time of the deep dark... has just begun
The most thrilling disaster movie this year..
Can you survive...
ASH!!!! rated R (for graphic scenes of natural disaster and nudity, lots and lots of nudity)

 

[Drexer]

Weight=Gravitic Force=F(g)

F(g)=m*a

m=mass(Kg)

a=9.8(m.s^-2) Which is pretty much a constant on earth surface for any macroscopic calculations.

If you have more ice packed into a smaller volume then you have more mass. You have to remember that the earth is a closed system, we only exchange energy with the outside, not matter(except for the occasional satellite or meteor. So the whole idea of there being more or less mass over the Earth's crust based on the state of the matter is well... silly.

 

[JEBWrench]

That;s what i figure. It just seems like they have been happening a lot and doing a lot more damamge than usual.
I mean, we aren't talking end of the world here, unless of course it creates a bunch of super volcanoes that create a cloud of dust that blankets that sky and chokes us out for thousands of years... but that may just be a hilarious senario that i will now turn in to the next disaster movie. Excuse me *grabs camera and runs out the door as fast as he can*

Coming this July
The clouds.... are upon us
The Age of man... has ended
The time of the deep dark... has just begun
The most thrilling disaster movie this year..
Can you survive...
ASH!!!! rated R (for graphic scenes of natural disaster and nudity, lots and lots of nudity)

Your movie will require some pseudoscience about the axial shift that occurred being the cause of the earthquakes.

 

[GreatVladmir]

I have to agree with Hugo Chavez, it is Obama's Earthquake inducing death ray, we are all doomed. Seriosuly though, it's some earthquakes, we don't need a bloody spanish inquisition looknig into it.

 

[Toriver]

The melting ice caps put less pressure on fault lines around the Earth, allowing them to open up like old wounds, which explains the increase seismic activity lately.

At least that's what I've heard.

And somehow a kilo of ice weighs more than a kilo of water? [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YouFailPhysicsForever]

A kilo of ice most certainly can weigh more than a kilo of water. It's the difference between mass and weight. Having a kilo of ice and a kilo of water just mean that you have the same amount of actual stuff in both. Density needs to also be taken into account when figuring weight. If you have a kilo of something packed into a small space, it will likely weigh less than a kilo of something spread out over a large space. So ice can weigh more than water, even if they are essentially the same substance, because the ice is tightly packed, while the water will be spread out. That's how you can have enough water packed into the relatively small space of the polar ice caps to raise the sea level enough to swallow even rather large islands whole.

Now imagine if you heard all that in Sten's voice.

Actually I think Leonard Nimoy's Spock might be more suitable. Seems to be better for the whole "B-movie scientist" vibe. Though imagining it in Sten's voice does make me want to LOL.

 

[SturmDolch]

I blame Switzerland [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/switzerland/6820811/Geologist-stands-trial-for-triggering-earthquakes-in-Switzerland.html]. But seriously, I've noticed this myself and thought about the whole "2012" thing. I don't believe it but I'd hate to be proven wrong on this.