8.9 earthquake in Japan

[questidore]

So many earthquakes happening around the world?  Wonder what on earth is going on?  Glad I'm developing some primitive skills.



/questidore
"Oh God, thy sea is so great.. and my boat is so small."

[Rick Wallace]

So many earthquakes happening around the world?  Wonder what on earth is going on?  Glad I'm developing some primitive skills.



/questidore
"Oh God, thy sea is so great.. and my boat is so small."

Amen Brother,Stock your house with food and water,,never know what might happen here................

[sailordad]

So many earthquakes happening around the world?  Wonder what on earth is going on?  Glad I'm developing some primitive skills.

well personally i think that the Mayans and Nostradamus may be on the right track
both of them,plus others thru the history of mankind.have predicted the same date in 2012.
they that on december 21st or 22nd,i believe,that civilization as we know it will end.
not that the world is going to end,just civilization as we know it will.
some(most) scientists say that a bunch of b.s..
some of theose scientists claim tat on that date all the planets in our solar system will be lined up.
now we know what the moons gravitaional force does to our weather.imagine the change in our weather when all tha planets
gravitional forces are working together.they also say this hasnt happend in 10,000 yrs.other scientists say that this could cause the earths
magnetic poles to shift,which they also claim has been about 10,000 yrs since that has happened.

i dont know which,if any of these theories is correct.but it sure seems like they could be plausible with the way the world weather is changing.
the only thing i do know for sure is that i am going to make sure that me and mine are well armed in case anything happens.
the person(s) that can survive off the land and by his/her own hand,will be the ones to survive period.
those that rely on others(or the system of government) will be dead by the roadside.
i say this because when it comes down to it,everyone will take care of themselves and their families first and worry about others second if at all.
jmho and thoughts on the subject,not that its worth a damn either way 

[Grunt]

Big earth changes are coming. Best thing to do is stock a thee month pantry and start learning how to grow more food.

[Marc St Louis]

It's been proven that this "planetary alignment" prediction is not going to happen

[sailordad]

heard on the morning news
that quake moved the island 8ft 

[Pat B]

The earth has been doing these things since it's beginnings millions of years ago. There are eathequakes happening every minute around the world. For some reason, we humans think we can control these natural occurances so we build near what we know are affected areas.
  I am saddened by what has taken place in Japan as I was with Haiti, Chile, New Zealand, and orthe natural disaster areas but the severity of these occurances can be lessened by not building in vulnerable areas.   Just look at Seattle, WA. If Mt. Ranier blows, Seattle is in the debris part of many of the past erruptions and will surely be adversely affected by such a tragity.

[sailordad]

Pat, your right
never understood why people insist on living in areas that are prone to natural disaster year after year
in my part of tee country its seasonal flooding
this year they expect it to the worse year for flooding in a looooong time
we have areas that flood every year
and every year you see the same people on tv complaing that they lost everything
and yet they rebuild in the same spot again
then in a year or two,they do it all over again
dont quit understand the mindset for that 

[Jesse]

Your not alone in noticing the increased frequency.  These where warned about thousands of years ago as a sign to look for. Specifically earthquakes. These are also referred to as birth pains. "birth pains" tend to increase in frequency.  These statistics only show mag 7 and higher there are also numerous smaller ones.
 DATES FROM & TO      PERIOD            NO. EARTHQUAKES (Mag. > 6.99)
  ---------------------------         -----------             ------------------------------
 1863 to 1900 incl            38 yrs                   12
 1901 to 1938 incl            38 yrs                   53                                                                   Reference list 1901 to 1938
 1939 to 1976 incl            38 yrs                   71                                                                   Reference list 1939 to 1976
 1977 to 2014 incl *          38 yrs                 156 (to Sept. 2010) predict >190 in total.               Reference list 1977 to date

 

[Pat B]

Jesse, Japan has been keeping records for 140 years. In geologic time that is nothing. In the US, 110 years. What about the last billion years?(not trying to invoke a religious argument). Plate techtonics has been taking place since the earth's crust solidified. Japan has earthquakes every day as does anywhere that is near a tectonic plate line. It is all part of how the earth was formed and is still forming. It would be more scary to me if these phenomena didn't happen.

[Jesse]

I dont think its scary Pat. I think its exciting. Also I dont believe the earth is billions of years old. Along with millions of people and thousands of scientists I believe the earth is around 10,000 years old. 
 Evolutionist Frederic B. Jueneman declres.   The age of our globe is presently thought to be some 4.5 billion years, based on radiodecay rates of uranium and thorium. Such “confirmation” may be short-lived, as nature is not to be discovered quite so easily. There has been in recent years the horrible realization that radiodecay rates are not as constant as previously thought, nor are they immune to environmental influences. And this could mean that the atomic clocks are reset during some global disaster, and events which brought the Mesozoic [age] to a close may not be 65 million years ago, but rather, within the age and memory of man.

# Studies on submarine basaltic rocks from Hawaii, known to have formed less than two hundred years ago, when dated by the potassium-argon method, yielded ages from 160 million to almost three billion years (Funkhouser and Naughton ).
# The shells of living mollusks have been dated at up to 2,300 years old (Keith and Anderson.
# Freshly-killed seals have been dated at up to 1,300 years, and mummified seals, dead only about thirty years, have yielded dates as high as 4,600 years (Dort 
 
It would be well to remember this: today’s science is tomorrow’s superstition. According to recent articles in various science journals, some astronomers are now saying that the standard techniques employed in measuring the age of the universe are significantly less accurate than new estimates based upon “compelling evidence” coming in from the Hubble Space Telescope. These findings appear to “indicate that the Universe is younger than its oldest stars, an apparent impossibility that will force a re-examination of our Universe model and how stellar ages are measured” (Jacoby .

[Grunt]

I don't think earth changes will happen all at once. I think the changes will be gradual. I think food and fuel and clean water will be a lot more expensive. I remember traveling in South America in the 70's and they rationed electricity. I will probably happen here. My dad said during WW11 everyone had a "Victory" garden. I think we will need to do that again. Hopefully we will be able to provide a safe world for the kids.

[iowabow]

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I always fine this discussion interesting about the collapsing of a civilization. There seems to be some real concerns and lessons that can be learned from the past. For example some pre-Columbian cultures fell apart because they consumed too many trees.  There are examples of farming failure related to irrigation. The list can go on and on. Anyway just for fun I read "the stand" interesting story. It kinda makes you wonder what if? I think food will be a real concern in the future without the connection to disaster, oil shortages will be an issue based on rate of consumption without a cosmic event, there has been and will likely be an illness related disaster in the future.
Most of the time a when a collapse occurs it happens over an extended period of time and humans adapt.
Just think how much knowledge we now we have related to the past. If a bad event on a large scale occurred people will fall back on what they know. People will naturally group together and form local governments. People will lean toward a civilized structure because they want a safe environment for their children and grandchildren. I believe this because the greatest fear for a social group is the "other".  People have banded together to form governments/communities to support each other and protect themselves from domestic and foreign threats. I don’t believe this system repeated by human for thousands of years will be abandoned. But you can be sure that religion and science will both play a part in repairing and rebuilding nations in the event of a global disaster of any kind.
I know that if a disaster happens I won’t be hitting rocks together! There are easier ways of doing things.

[HatchA]

Pat and Sailor...  I agree 100% about people living in these areas of bad natural happenings - Tsunami hits, people morn the losses, people rebuyild and come up with "early warning systems" to give them some sort of "preparation" for then next eventuallity...  I think "if shit like this keeps happening, why don't you MOVE!!!???"

But then again...  where would they move to?

The economic ramefications of entire nations of people looking for a "new home" are massive!  There's a lot of countries on this planet that have the spacial capacity to allow for massive population increases - but the infrastructures just aren't there and the cost of putting them in place (at current level of capilism/commercialism) are astronomical!!  

On a topic more related to the original post -

There's a guy in the U.S. who's job for the last 35 years has been to go into work every day, fire a laser at a bank of reflectors on the moon and wait for the laser to come back to him.

Every day...  go to work...  shoot laser...  wait for it to come back...  record the details.

After 35 years of doing this, he's able to compare the records from today against the 35 year old ones and he's now able to say that the beam takes 2 seconds more to come back now than it did when he first started doing it.  The moon is moving further away from the planet Earth.  

Mankind as a species has been damming up rivers and trying to control the natural run of things.  The tides are controlled by the moon's gravitational pull on the water - maybe our stockpiling of rivers behind massive concrete walls has, over time, been affecting the equilibrium betwen the Earth and moon's gravitational relationship...

[Badger]

   Japan is not being honest about the nuclear reactor,truth is once past the point of no return the shit simply hits the fan and nothing can stop it. I imagine about 500 square miles of Japan will soon be declared a wasteland off limits.