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2004-06-18 Israel-Palestine

Israel triggers huge blast in southern desert in seismology test

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Posted by .com 2004-06-18 03:44|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Or in plain english, preludes to nuke test yields!

Posted by smn 2004-06-18 3:57:00 AM|| 2004-06-18 3:57:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 We saw this story a few days ago, but this is a different writeup, and in this one:

The Jordan valley, Dead Sea and the Arava desert all lie on the Syria-Africa faultline, one of the most sensitive seismology zones in the world.

Hundreds of people were killed in a tremor in 1927 that registered 6.2 on the Richter scale and which had its epicenter near the Dead Sea.

Wtf? What the hell is this idiot bit doing in this? They aren't going to cause an earthquake, yet the punk-ass that wrote this thing (I couldn't find a name) is clearly trying to imply that they might.

Posted by Laurence of the Rats 2004-06-18 9:07:28 AM|| [http://www.punictreachery.com/] 2004-06-18 9:07:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Sending a signal to Syria are we? Who knows, maybe this is the prelude to an Israeli pre-emptive strike on Iran's nuke reactor, since the UN has gotten its panties in a wad because we put panties on thugs' heads at Abu Gharib (yeah, we did it, in case you've missed the NYT the last few months!).

Posted by BA 2004-06-18 9:26:15 AM|| 2004-06-18 9:26:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Maybe Lex Luther has decided to try and make that part of Israel ocean front since Superman foiled his California plan. I wonder if there will be an Otisville on the map this time.

Posted by JerseyMike 2004-06-18 9:33:40 AM|| 2004-06-18 9:33:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 A simple test *wink wink* that's all...

Posted by Frank G 2004-06-18 9:58:53 AM|| 2004-06-18 9:58:53 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Wtf? What the hell is this idiot bit doing in this? They aren't going to cause an earthquake

LotR, I'm not so sure there wasn't a subtext here to Iran, whose nuclear facilities are located on or near some major faults. Given the recent earthquakes there, it would be a shot across the bow to the mullahs to call their attention to the possibility of triggering movement along one or more of those faults.

Not saying it is actually feasible (don't know one way or the other) but as a symbolic action it gets my attention & I suspect it got attention in Teheran too.

Posted by rkb 2004-06-18 10:03:34 AM|| 2004-06-18 10:03:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 The AEC was concerned in the early 70s about the effects of u/g nuclear tests on faults and the possibility of triggering earthquakes. We at the USGS were brought in. We measured distance across the faults before, sometimes during, and after tests. Faults stayed locked up. No guarantees, though....Fun in the Nevada sun..

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-06-18 12:27:26 PM|| 2004-06-18 12:27:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Maybe Israel is testing an explosive device with enough energy to destroy tunnels.....

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-06-18 2:57:39 PM|| 2004-06-18 2:57:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 I hope Yassir heard that blast.

Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-06-18 7:57:52 PM|| 2004-06-18 7:57:52 PM|| Front Page Top

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