Can cleavage trigger an earthquake?

[wavelandscott]

Not sure if you all have been following the efforts of a Purdue University student to trigger an earthquake.

Things got started when a conservative cleric in Iran suggested at a recent prayer service that women who dress immodestly anger God who then causes an earthquake as punishment.

I caught just a passing reference to this earlier today but did not get a chance to research it any...

It is my understanding that the student who started all of this has been doing the "news" shows but I have not seen any yet.

Has this caught anyone's attention in Australia?

So far no quakes here but the day is not yet done...we shall see what happens.

[jjjnettie]

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=107820922593623&ref=search&sid=1693531512.3449489374..1

It was a perfectly above board experiment. :lol:
No quakes in Kilcoy.

[multiweb]

Ha!... Typical symptoms of cleavage deprivation IMO. :lol:

[Baddad]

Hi Scott & jjj, :)

:lol::lol:, This has the potential to either be locked or attract some very funny comments.

I feel for those people who have like superstions: Take the avid sports fan that believes if he doesn't wear his lucky "Christopher" medal his team will surely lose.
These people do not think outside of their sphere. There are thousands of fans who do certain routines or change behaviour expecting it to affect the sporting result. So why should just one person have that power.

The purchase of a new super telescope by jjj will surely bring rain to Kilcoy and SEQld but that's different ofcourse.

We have all these bikini clad (or unclad) young ladies on the beaches all around Australia. But the earth does not move for me. Whoops. I should have put that a different way I feel.

I'm sure that the instigator of the theory would have an acceptable explanation for that. (Nothing to do with Aussie being on a tectonic plate)

:eyepop: What have the Victorians and Adelaidians been up to lately? They all have experienced some movement. Perhaps its the prelude to a "Sodom and Gomorrah" event.:lol::lol:

Cheers Marty

[bojan]

it sure can ;) (in my head, that is for sure ..)

[AstralTraveller]

Sorry JJJ but I can't follow the link. Want to let us know what it's about? I love discussing geology. :)

[jjjnettie]

:ashamed: ;)

[Baddad]

Hi David, :)

http://www.blaghag.com/2010/04/in-name-of-science-i-offer-my-boobs.html

http://www.blaghag.com/

Try that its the same. The second one is as a consequence of the first.

Cheers Marty

[jjjnettie]

Jen McCreight, she's great.:) I love reading her blogs.

[AstralTraveller]

Well, if that much cleavage can cause an earthquake then campus should be constantly shaking, especially at the start of the year when all the first-year young ladies are dressed to impress.

[Ric]

No comment as I can't stop laughing.:P


:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:


Actually based on these ideas then flattulence should cause cyclones. :question:

Cheers

[[1ponders]]

This thread has the potential to be locked. Please post considerately.

[wavelandscott]

I agree and hesitated to post it at first thinking it might devolve into something that it was not intended. In the end my thirst for scientific knowledge won out and I could not stop myself from sharing.

Please feel free to moderate it as needed on this family friendly site.

[rider]

under these conditions, the new receptionist at my company should be classified as a global terrorist under the "be alert, not alarmed" legislation.
She is obviously trying to shift entire tectonic plates.

[AstralTraveller]

I feel sorry for you, having to live in fear like that.

[avandonk]

What is really at stake here is cause and effect and not just correllation.

To link major events caused by the natural world to our behaviour is ingrained. From the day we are born we have a mental working 'model' of the world around us to try and make sense of it. This is a primitive survival mechanism and obviously the 'model' gets better with time. That does not make it correct.

When very ignorant people who are self proclaimed leaders start to impose their very poor delusional model of the Universe on the rest of us, we have a problem.

Ancient 'civilisations' such as the Aztecs used to have human sacrifice as a way of appeasing their gods that controlled their 'Universe'.

So blaming bad luck on a black cat or spilled salt is along the same lines as blaming earthquakes on people whose behaviour you do not approve of.

I blame this all on these new fangled computer games the kids play!

Bert

[Steffen]

Get out of here! Next thing you say is that a new telescope purchase doesn't really cause 6 weeks of rain… Tell me then, what does???
;)


Cheers
Steffen.

[renormalised]

Cleavage causing earthquakes....well, if the cleavage of the minerals making up the rocks along the fault is trending broadly in the direction of the slip planes within the rocks, then that'll make the rocks more prone to breaking along those slip planes if pressure is put on them. Usually, you'll get recrystallisation of the minerals within the rocks if you get enough strain occurring and those minerals will subsequently trend in their orientation in the direction of the strain. Any previously existing structures, such as sedimentary bedding, unconformities/disconformities, previous faulting, mineral layering and flow banding etc etc etc, will be deformed and can create further weakness within the rocks.

So, in geologically correct terms (notwithstanding other forms of cleavage), the answer is...possibly:):)

[sjastro]

This is a new take on earthquakes caused by weak cleavage planes.;)

Regards

Steven

[renormalised]

Just thought, with all this immodesty (according to "Mr Purity McCleric" of Iran) in the West, the size of the earthquakes we should be getting would make 2012 look like a picnic in the park!!:):P

[cfranks]

There have been a couple of good points raised here; but nothing I can put my finger on!:thumbsup:

[Gallifreyboy]

Man in foreign country utters words that makes thousands of women strip off around the world to show more cleavage........I'm thinking he must be a very wise man ;)

[Baddad]

Hi Gallifreyboy, :)

You just may have something there:lol::lol:

Cheers Marty

[jjjnettie]

so you think all he was doing was some very cunning reverse psychology??
damn, and we fell for it
OK girls....time to cover up again

[Suzy]

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[TrevorW]

Is this a form of the butterfly effect

[Waxing_Gibbous]

Good thing my wife only occasionally wears lo-cut dresses. Outherwise SE Australia would slide into the sea!
Ya can park a bike between the puppies!:D

[DavidU]

Not A word from me !

[torana68]

I like it, it should be annual, no, monthly, hmmm weekly? just to prove the guy wrong of course :)
Roger

[rally]

Can cleavage trigger an earthquake?

No - but It can probably be used to measure one !

[Wavytone]

Can cleavage trigger an earthquake? It can make the ground tremble here !

[pgc hunter]

The only thing cleavage triggers in my neck of the woods is a sabquake .

[JD2439975]

In breaking news an earthquake measuring 6.4 jigglies on the mammoscale shook LA this afternoon.
We cross almost live to a recording of the event...wow...could we see that again?...no...oh well, just have to wait for the after shocks. :lol:

[renormalised]

This is starting to become just a little risque...the innuendo is so thick you could cut it with a blunt knife!!:):P

[astro_nutt]

I'd like to see Mythbusters tackle this one...LOL!!! (with aploigies for any offence done)

[Ric]

This thread is reading like a Benny Hill script. ;) :rofl::rofl: