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| Thread ID: 124746 | 2012-05-17 00:08:00 | He's at it again | dugimodo (138) | PC World Chat |
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| 1275802 | 2012-05-17 00:08:00 | nz.news.yahoo.com Why do they publish this Idiot. He should stick to his weather predictions stop pretending he knows anything about earthquakes. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1275803 | 2012-05-17 00:18:00 | I agree, the guy is dangerous and should be taken out. | prefect (6291) | ||
| 1275804 | 2012-05-17 00:52:00 | I had to stop going to nzherald because they kept posting crap articles from a single author that infuriated me somewhat. I stick with Stuff now. They don't have quite so much, but for the better part their tech articles are at least decently done. | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1275805 | 2012-05-17 01:52:00 | The NZ Herald has become just another tabloid one step above the women's magazines. I no longer buy it. Mostly sensationalist bs rather than news. | CliveM (6007) | ||
| 1275806 | 2012-05-19 23:04:00 | Maybe he's onto something this time www.newscientist.com |
Whenu (9358) | ||
| 1275807 | 2012-05-19 23:31:00 | No he's a crackpot, if he gets something right it's by accident. If you read that article and then read Mr Rings theory despite them both being about tidal forces they are very different. This scientist is saying when an earthquake is building already small quakes might be triggered by tidal forces indicating a big one is coming, not that those tidal forces themselves cause the quakes merely that they can trigger something that is already starting to happen for other reasons. They haven't yet predicted anything based on this theory. No scientist has said there is no effect of tidal forces on seismic activity, what they have said is that there is no historical evidence of large earthquakes in any way lining up with anything to do with the movement of the moon or it's resulting tides and that the moon can't be used to reliably predict an earthquake. What Mr Ring has done is taken one very minor factor in the equation and tried to solve everything with it while ignoring or denying all the other forces long established to cause earthquakes. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1275808 | 2012-05-20 01:32:00 | Hmmm, "Thousands of earthquakes occurred in Christchurch in 1869-70 which raised the seabed. The CBD rose where the sea had been. A second mistake would be to rebuild on the same reclaimed swamp. " What a load of rubbish, by that time Christchurch was already well settled. It even had a railway (opened in 1863) from the port at Ferrymead to where the old railway stn is today on Moorhouse Ave. Trains dont go to well under water Mr Ring you plonker. I think the guy has lost the plot. | Iantech (16386) | ||
| 1275809 | 2012-05-20 06:32:00 | Oh dear, Christchurch just got another fault line off the coast. 4.6 just rattled through (hell of a jolt actually). Hope you're hanging in there Lurks and other Chch guys. | Iantech (16386) | ||
| 1275810 | 2012-05-20 06:40:00 | Eastern end of the Port Hills fault - quite 'sharp' and "juddery". This mornings was Rolleston (Greendale fault), reasonable lateral motion, not too 'sharp'. They definitely feel different. The offshore New Brighton fault is different again - a lot more rolling and mellow. |
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