Subject: More areas now sensitive to quakes? Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 17:43:51 +0100 From: Ray Dickenson Looks like lightening snow / ice loads, mountain chain deforestation and changes in water catchment are creating more areas that are going to be sensitive to quake triggers - plus quakes' accompanying landslips, mudfloods etc. [From local experience have seen that taking _off_ a load (by pumping-up ground water) can be just as harmful as imposing an extra load e.g. in big dam projects. Both create lateral pressures leading to successions of quakes, until some sort of equilibrium is reached.] However in truly mountainous areas on-going load changes are of millions or billions of tons weight, from loss of snow / ice / glacier loads. And where previous inland seas or large catchment lakes are disappearing, similar load-change is effectively acting _upwards_ now. Notes on alignments - as Moon moves through its approximate `quarters' it lines up with a nearing or departing Venus or Mars several times during the period (month or three) that each planet is at closest approach. Potentially strongest is of course where Earth and Venus (or Mars) both line up with Sun PLUS a full / new moon / eclipse. We're almost at peak of Mars period now (as you can see) - and there's Venus coming up month or two after that's all over. Venus can have even more tectonic effects than Mars - see August 1999 eclipse plus subsequent Venus alignment; it led to chain of catastrophic quakes from S.E Europe / Turkey / EurAsia thru to Pacific - Taiwan / Japan (ie approximate `track' of eclipse shadow). However, with newly sensitive areas being created, with unsuspected and unseen stresses moving deep underground, it seems we shouldn't expect only traditional `Ring-of-Fire' catastrophes. Ray D ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Perceptions" http://www.perceptions.couk.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ --------------------------------------------- FURTHER REFERENCES GO - "search perceptions" - in SEARCH-ENGINE file-ID www.perceptions.couk.com/uef/aligns22.txt