EARTHQUAKE melbourne australia

I thought sarcasm conveyed perfectly on GLP?

anyone else hear the birds singing after the quake?

EQ's do NOT release pressure, that is a fallacy.

Well surprise surprise - First you Vics steal south aussie's Grand Prix...now you had to go and steal our earthquake lime light.

volcano doom?

i'm telling ya's, there's going to be another big one here.

Elenin?



LOL

It's the Bass Straight EQ I'm really waiting for.

To back up my statement I shall post this again.

If you look at earthquake statistics in most regions of the world, including California, you will find that for every magnitude 5 earthquake, there are about 10 that have a magnitude of 4, and for each magnitude 4, there are 10 with magnitude 3. Unfortunately, this means there are not enough small earthquakes to relieve enough stress to prevent the large events. In fact, it would take 32 magnitude 5's, 1000 magnitude 4's, or 32,000 magnitude 3's to equal the energy produced in one magnitude 6 event.
[link to seismo.berkeley.edu]

zeta's right again?

Been saying it for years..

All bowned for Mornington many miles away.

Geelong felt it.. no wonder Gazza left.

oh really.

everything i have ever read or watched indicates otherwise, if it did not release pressure that is built up, the earthquake would not really stop, and you would not felt it hundreds of miles away. a few hours after the earthquake near melbourne, a shockwave will reach brisbane (although they will not feel it... is this not because of energy being released?? the further away, the less you feel, until feel nothing, as the energy dissipates.

your theory suggests that earthquakes are not caused, by what actually causes them.

OMG i hope Puffing Billy is ok..

Yes really !

Ok, I'll bite! Just look up all the threads I've started over the last year and a half. And yes, I'm totally against the Carbon Tax. Yes, I am female. No, I am not a socialist or a communist! And my measurements are 36 26 38

If that is the case why did Honshu have several 4 mags, 5 mags, 6 mags, 7 mags and even an 8 mag before the big one ?
It doesn't release pressure.

Volcano extinct .. Guess what they never really are..


Victoria is stuffed.

it seems you lack in the intelligence department. sorry no pun intended.. it is just that, you yourself talk about needing soooooo many more smaller earthquakes to happen, to and i qoute "relieve enough stress to prevent the large events"

ummm.. righteo! you just proved your own theory wrong! LOL

OBVIOUSLY, if there are a number of smaller events that relieve enough stress in the plates etc it will offset a bigger event... does this not prove that earthquakes relieve stress/pressure etc?? because the fact is, bigger earthquakes happen because of so much built of stress/pressure and when it finally happens, a humoungous amount of energy is released which sends shockwaves everywhere,causes damage, and is felt at great distances.... show me some credible scientific evidence that says earthquakes to not release energy or relieve energy, instead of posting links to something that actually prove im right

Ah resorting to berating someone now ?
You just had a 5 mag, that has not released enough pressure to stop another one, which you indicated.

18 km from the point of origin here in Traralgon, some crap fell off shelves etc but not much else i know of. I thought it was a truck coming through the front of my house, lol.

i'm sorry, it is just, stupidity really gets to me lol

think of me as a tectonic plate.. and stupidity is pressure that is built by me constantly running into stupidity.. eventually, it snaps, and energy is released as i type the truth.. and just like a earthquake.. it was felt, or at least read miles away... i would say this is just a tremor though

That was the feeling I got from the earthquake a few years ago.

correct, no such thing as an extinct volcano, just dormant ones, and anything dormant, can become active.. we have a few dormant ones here on the sunshine coast too..

Same..

You need to read up more while I pop out. Pressure is pushed down the fault, it isn't released.