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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Earth Slowing to Cause Earthquakes
2017-11-20
[Guardian] Scientists have warned there could be a big increase in numbers of devastating earthquakes around the world next year. They believe variations in the speed of Earth’s rotation could trigger intense seismic activity, particularly in heavily populated tropical regions.

Although such fluctuations in rotation are small – changing the length of the day by a millisecond – they could still be implicated in the release of vast amounts of underground energy, it is argued.

The link between Earth’s rotation and seismic activity was highlighted last month in a paper by Roger Bilham of the University of Colorado in Boulder and Rebecca Bendick of the University of Montana in Missoula presented at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America.
I blame man-made slowing...
Posted by:Mercutio

#12  Earth mod Gaia == Sarah?
Posted by: 3dc   2017-11-20 22:41  

#11  Where the heck did Sarah's come from? I typed in Earth's.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2017-11-20 16:34  

#10  There it is at #4, the reason I read the Burg, snort.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-11-20 15:07  

#9  I did read a few years back that rocket launches to put sattelites in orbit does reduce the Sarah's rotation speed.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2017-11-20 14:03  

#8  Next month's headline - 'Earth speeding up to cause earthquakes'.
Posted by: Raj   2017-11-20 13:20  

#7  "The sky is falling!" Wait, no the earth is collapsing.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-11-20 11:07  

#6  Geological Geofeelzical Society
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2017-11-20 10:47  

#5  It's still Trump's fault. Or maybe Bush's.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia    2017-11-20 10:10  

#4  And no doubt it’s man caused and will take trillions of dollars a year to study...
Posted by: CrazyFool   2017-11-20 09:22  

#3  Bilham and Bendick had to report something.

They couldn't just take the podium and say 'ladies and gentlemen, we're happy to be here, great sushi, but unfortunately we have absolutely nothing significant to report.'
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-11-20 09:15  

#2  We need to build a highway all the way around the world and drive lots of cars really fast from east to west to speed Earth's rotation back up. Or maybe blow the tops off high, tropical mountains (like a skater pulling her arms in during rotation.)
Posted by: Glenmore   2017-11-20 09:11  

#1  I blame a gizillion copies of National Geographic piled in basements and attics in North America destabilizing the earth's rotation.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-11-20 09:09  

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