TURKEY QUAKES IN A GRID PATTERN!

erm, pin?

wtf is this???

I think its referring to an EARTHQUAKE STORM!

Bump for discussion.

It seems the quakes actually happened in that pattern and it's not just the way they laid it out? Wth?

man made destruction grid
earthquake warfare device
???

for more responses and a pin perhaps?

Nobody finds this strange?

Could this be trackers? just all getting set off?

I would tend to think it's just a limitation of the software and it not overlapping one on the other, but rather placing it in the next nearest empty spot. But, then again, I'm sorta naive.

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nope, same zoom level and these quakes are closer together...

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another example

shit!!!! this needs a pin

that is really weird! last night i was watching them on the site that reported the 8.4 in libya, and they seemed to show an ARC pattern.

ps i really dislike that RSOE EDIS site. just saying. it's a pain in the ass.

agreed

X-37B

earthquake storm? LOL

Weapons made to look like "nature did it". Brilliant (not so much) wave of the future.

why arent these turkey quakes showing up on usgs?

I don't know how to embed pictures, but I just snapped this from my phone... same thing on the phone app I have:

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I wonder what the probability is of this being random.

Any ideas why Turkey???

What is the plan???

Any GLP'ers from Turkey care to venture a guess??

Something hidden underground there??

its how the program works....

and any 'stargates ready to open in Turkey?
or has someone thrown at shoe at someone?
why Turkey?

~~~Not about today--yet informative

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Turkey Earthquake Latest in String Along Fault

This week’s deadly earthquake was the latest in a string of major temblors that have struck northern Turkey progressively from east to west over the past 60 years.

In 1939, a magnitude-8.0 earthquake struck near the eastern city of Erzincan, rupturing 225 miles of the North Anatolian fault that cuts across northern Turkey.

Then, from 1942 to 1967, five more major quakes struck, each rupturing a part of the fault to the west of the previous quake. There have also been a couple of earthquakes to the east of the 1939 quake.

“It’s a pattern that has long been recognized,” says Jim Dieterich, a senior scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, Calif. “There’s a progression of earthquakes that have now marched across much of northern Turkey.”

The latest earthquake “occurred right in the center of this region where stresses had increased during the previous earthquakes,” Dieterich says. “So this is now a continuation of that pattern.”

Tectonic Intersection

Criss-crossed with fault lines and wedged between three large, constantly moving tectonic plates,

Turkey and the wider eastern Mediterranean region is one of the world’s most earthquake-prone zones.

Some 96 percent of Turkey lies in a “high risk” area and 98 percent of the population lives in this area, according to Turkey’s Housing Ministry.

“A number of lines of crust weakness converge in this particular area,” says Iain Stewart, a lecturer in earth sciences at the British University of Brunel.

The African plate to the south and the Arabian plate to the east are moving north against the Eurasian plate, which moves south, resulting in an accumulation of pressure on the boundaries.

Similar to San Andreas

Geologists see the North Anatolian fault almost like a buttoned shirt being pulled apart. When one button pops off, that transfers the stress to the next button, making it the one likely to pop off next.

Jim Dewey of the U.S. Geological Survey in Boulder, Colo., suggests a run in a stocking as another analogy. “Once it gets going, it keeps going.”

Unlike Other Faults

Perhaps surprisingly, this pattern of earthquakes traveling down a fault line is rare.

Most earthquake faults are not of the strike-slip variety,

ok, if this is for real there is something going on...