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Originally posted by WingedBull
reply to post by Helious
It should be a very simple task to provide the direct link. In fact, less time than it would have taken to wrote that response. What is the problem? Why such hostility?
(I should add that I did misread your initial statement about the quakes as being the worst ever, instead of in a century as you said. Mea culpa.)edit on 1-5-2011 by WingedBull because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by October
reply to post by InfaRedMan
Oh i'm not looking for fantasy to Whet my appetite!
Originally posted by October
reply to post by InfaRedMan
let's roll reverse the video post you just embedded. On ATS there are thousands of videos FOR the evidence of catastrophies and intervention,
Originally posted by October
reply to post by InfaRedMan
but that vieo you posted does not touch me to sway to the regular convention of understanding. That is one guy talking there, doesn't wash with me buddy!
Originally posted by Helious
If you are not aware of the situation at hand, what responsibility do I or others have in holding your hand through all the facts when you are the ones pointing fingers and making claims?
Your Source.
However, there's one problem with this theory: the graph does not show what it claims to show.
...the subheading on that webpage reads:"Selected earthquakes of general historic interest." This is not a full data set but one selected by the USGS as being of historic interest. The above graph is therefore an artefact of this selection process. To claim that there has been a huge increase in major earthquakes based solely upon this graph is therefore false.
So, has there been a spike up in major earthquakes over the last decade? No.
Has there been any increase in major earthquakes in recent history? Some during the 1990s, although the data I have only covers the last 30 years. The USGS, who hold all the data, say that major earthquakes have been fairly constant.
Originally posted by Helious
Are you saying you don't know how to use the USGS site? You wan't me to do your "homework" for you.
Although it may seem that we are having more earthquakes, earthquakes of magnitude 7.0 or greater have remained fairly constant throughout this century and, according to our records, have actually seemed to decrease in recent years.