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Originally posted by Arbitrageur
How do you explain what caused the 9.0 Earthquake in March 2011 in a subduction zone, which caused the Fukushima disaster?
How do you explain what caused the 9.0 Earthquake in March 2011 in a subduction zone, which caused the Fukushima disaster?
FROM THE EDITOR Plate tectonics – gone with the great Japanese earthquake and tsunami n addition to the damage to human life, property and the economy, the historic M9.0 earthquake and tsunami in northern Japan last March (Great East Japan Earthquake – GEJE) has brought about chaos among Japanese seismologists who are heavily committed to plate tectonics.
They failed to warn the Japanese people in advance of this disaster after having spent a huge amount of money in the last four decades on the “predicted” Great Offshore Tokai (western Japan) earthquake which has never occurred (Geller, 2011; Uyeda, 2011). They are now facing a taxpayers’ revolt – people are venting their anger at the seismological authorities.
More seriously, seismologists have had to publicly admit that the prevailing plate tectonic paradigm cannot explain the GEJE. Let’s examine their own problems with the GEJE, based on an article by Ito that appeared in one of the major newspapers in Japan.............. (Yomiuri Shinbun) on 10 April 2011:
We know the precise rate of movement of the plates toward each other.
The magnitude 9.0 Tohoku earthquake on March 11, 2011, which occurred near the northeast coast of Honshu, Japan, resulted from thrust faulting on or near the subduction zone plate boundary between the Pacific and North America plates. At the latitude of this earthquake, the Pacific plate moves approximately westwards with respect to the North America plate at a rate of 83 mm/yr, and begins its westward descent beneath Japan at the Japan Trench.
What? I thought your source said it couldn't be explained? Then how is it consistent with the event having occurred on the subduction zone plate boundary? Your source doesn't make sense.
The location, depth, and focal mechanism of the March 11 earthquake are consistent with the event having occurred on the subduction zone plate boundary. Modeling of the rupture of this earthquake indicate that the fault moved upwards of 30-40 m, and slipped over an area approximately 300 km long (along-strike) by 150 km wide (in the down-dip direction). The rupture zone is roughly centered on the earthquake epicenter along-strike, while peak slips were up-dip of the hypocenter, towards the Japan Trench axis.
Oh no, another admission that we can't predict where the aftershocks will take place! The inability to make accurate predictions is a reflection of the complexity of the plate interaction and in no way discredits plate tectonics as a general theory.
Continuing readjustments of stress and associated aftershocks are expected in the region of this earthquake. The exact location and timing of future aftershocks cannot be specified.
Even if that's the case, that makes my point that it doesn't support an expanding Earth. The crust is disappearing as fast as it's appearing, meaning a constant sized Earth.
Originally posted by bjarneorn
There was no subduction, japan ... just slided down the trench into the japan sea.
What it proves is that you don't know what the globe looks like. Alaska and Russia are already nose to nose, not separated as in the delusional starting point of your video. Here's the real, non-delusional map showing where Russia meets Alaska:
Originally posted by Shadow Herder
I made this video that proves earth expanded. The majority of the growth occurred in the pacific.. You can verify this yourself.
Originally posted by bjarneorn
But this field, is all very unclear ... we don't know what is in the core, so let's speculate and get creative.
In an earlier post, Anonymous drew attention to an animation by Greg Beroza, Geophysics of Stanford University, showing the slip rate on the fault that generated the Tsunami of 11th March, 2011, which highlights the difference in approach between Plate Tectonics and an expanding Earth.
The difference concerns the way that transform faults are interpreted, and goes to the heart of the difference between the two models, as they may materially affect the life and times of the circum-Pacific region. Transform faults are the structures cross-cutting the spreading ridges. In Plate Tectonics they are the surface brittle expression of the 'tramrails' of ductile mantle flow-lines along which the continents separated from the ridges. On an Earth that is getting bigger however they represent the surficial brittle expression of along-ridge extension as the spreading ridges grow upwards and away from the continents, as the sea floors accommodate the underplating mantle growth and correction in curvature as the Earth's surface moves outwards from the centre.
With directional dynamics being at right angles to each other, and with implications (or not) for an Earth that has increased in size enormously since Mesozoic times, the two are as different as can possibly be. Plate Tectonics hangs its hat on seismology, but hides behind the ambiguities of relative motion of fault plane solutions necessitated by that geophysical approach. When interpreting geological dynamics of the Earth's crust however, actual motion is important; relative motion is a poor substitute (but does allow the cognitively impaired a degree of intellectual latitude). What it does *not* do however, is allow them to insist in the face of evidence to the contrary, and against all reasonable logic, to insist that the difference does not matter, and, in the case in point, that subduction of the ocean floors and overriding of it by the crust are tantamount to the same thing. They are not.
There is a big difference for example between an avalanche that buries the village, and a village that somehow upstilts and rushes under the mountain, although the motion of one relative to the other in each case is the same. Or, if we are to remain with credible geology, between granitic bodies that intrude the crust, and a crust that somehow collapses over granites. Similarly there is a big difference between the crust collapsing over the mantle because it is gravitationally unstable (as in Earth expansion), and the mantle collapsing under the crust because the mantle somehow gets cold by sinking into the hotter regions of the Earth (as in Plate Tectonics).
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
What it proves is that you don't know what the globe looks like. Alaska and Russia are already nose to nose, not separated as in the delusional starting point of your video. Here's the real, non-delusional map showing where Russia meets Alaska:
Also your video is pretty much 2-D, the Earth is 3-D. But that's related to the first problem.
Originally posted by Shamatt
Perhaps there is another theory here too? We understand the conservation of energy. Energy = matter = energy, and can change between those states in certain very specific circumstances. Perhaps there is so much energy at the sentre of the planet (presure, nuclear decay of heavy metals) that matter is being produced there.
This would be a ballance: As energy is consumed to make matter would the process slow? As the new matter was added, would the energy (Additional gravity) increase causing more matter? Or are these processes in balance? Will they find a ballance, and at that point the earth stop growing?
Interesting subject.
Originally posted by Shadow Herder
Actually if you pay attention in your map where the red dot is a chain of Islands the were stretched and pulled around as the pacific spreaded.
Growth of the earth episodically throughout geological time is abundantly evident. The three authors of this book give new spins to many geological phenomena that can better be explained by earth expansion than by existing, widely accepted theories, such as plate tectonics
As a consequence of these theories, which were developed during the writing of the two books, the editor, whose career has spanned over fifty years in petroleum and mining exploration, is pursuing the logical consequences of his theory. He has undertaken to drill for oil and metallic minerals beneath the largest petroleum resource known on Earth, the Athahasca bituminous sands of Alberta, Canada. The proof of the theory of carbide/hydride systematics, first enunciated in Environment of Violence and then developed in Expanding Geospheres, should soon he proven if it is really true.
Originally posted by lagnar
Thought you might like this.
Enjoy
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
reply to post by MichaelNetzer
I don't think it was a silly theory in the 1950s. We didn't have a lot of evidence to contradict it then, and back then the broken pottery argument sounded like it might have some merit.
I only think it's a silly theory today now that we have so much evidence to contradict it that it can be described as overwhelming.
For example this paper was only published in 2000, we didn't know this in the 1950s:
"Geological constraints on the Precambrian history of the Earth’s rotation and the moon’s orbit" (pdf)
The late Neoproterozoic rhythmite data do not support significant change in Earth’s moment of inertia and radius over the past 620 Myr.
And whether you want to call it subduction or something else, we have very precise measurements of plates moving together today. To my knowledge we didn't have this in the 1950s.
I think expanding Earth proponents must think this map is made up, instead of consisting of actual measurements, because it clearly shows that we have as much crust moving together as we do plates separating.:
en.wikipedia.org...
Detailed map showing the tectonic plates with their movement vectors.
We didn't have that map in 1950. But we do today and that's pretty compelling evidence showing there's as much crust disappearing as there is crust appearing. How can anyone look at that map and not see this? Do you think the map is wrong? And if so what's your basis or evidence for this?
I can't ignore the satellite data.
The current motion of the tectonic plates is nowadays revealed from remote sensing satellite data sets, calibrated with ground station measurements.
But if we turned the clock back to 1950 and you proposed the EE idea then, I wouldn't have dismissed it at that time (we'd need a time machine because I wasn't alive then). I only dismiss it today in light of the overwhelming evidence against it which exists today.
Originally posted by lagnar
Thought you might like this.
Enjoy
Originally posted by Shamatt
reply to post by bjarneorn
Wat IF.... your post makes no sence. Not backed up by any science or even any known observations of our planet.
Also - reread your last paragraph. It is illogical. How can anything fall to earth if the reaction between this mystical plasma and the electrons or whatever from the sun (Which magically enter through the norht or south pole???) happens underground? So to answer your question - No, that would not happen.