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Man made earthquakes.
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<blockquote data-quote="sjastro" data-source="post: 75544889" data-attributes="member: 352921"><p>This is one of the myths about earthquakes that smaller magnitude earthquakes release enough stress to prevent a larger more devastating earthquake.</p><p>It was this form of reasoning that got one of the scientists charged with involuntary manslaughter over the L'Aqulia earthquake as described in this <a href="https://www.christianforums.com/threads/can-you-predict-earthquakes.8188421/#post-75541939" target="_blank">post</a>.</p><p>He assured the locals they were reasonably safe as the large number of small tremors in the region had released enough energy to make a major quake highly unlikely which history has shown was a serious error.</p><p></p><p>The magnitude of an earthquake is on a logarithmic scale and the energy released for every unit increase in magnitude increases by a factor of 30.</p><p>Hence it would take a 1000 earthquakes of magnitude 4 to release all the energy of a single magnitude 6 earthquake.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sjastro, post: 75544889, member: 352921"] This is one of the myths about earthquakes that smaller magnitude earthquakes release enough stress to prevent a larger more devastating earthquake. It was this form of reasoning that got one of the scientists charged with involuntary manslaughter over the L'Aqulia earthquake as described in this [URL='https://www.christianforums.com/threads/can-you-predict-earthquakes.8188421/#post-75541939']post[/URL]. He assured the locals they were reasonably safe as the large number of small tremors in the region had released enough energy to make a major quake highly unlikely which history has shown was a serious error. The magnitude of an earthquake is on a logarithmic scale and the energy released for every unit increase in magnitude increases by a factor of 30. Hence it would take a 1000 earthquakes of magnitude 4 to release all the energy of a single magnitude 6 earthquake. [/QUOTE]
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