Are Earthquakes Increasing?

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Christina

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71 Quakes occurred on the 6+ list from 1958 to the end of 1999 - 42 years worth of data. Going the other direction, from 1/1/2000 forward toward today, we only need to go to January 19, 2003's (Unimak Island Alaska 6.6), a span of about 3.2 years. That's one heck of an acceleration in rates of 6+ quakes, as I see it.While I'd admit "The data is not conclusive" and "It could be a statistical quirk" it nevertheless gives some rise to the concern that big quakes may actually be increasing in frequency and intensity.info gathered from usgs
 

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update and picture of lake that turned redvolcanic lake erupts in a riot of colourBy Richard Macey - SMHPosted Tuesday, June 13, 2006It looks like a giant cup of red wine or even blood.Late last month villagers on Ambae, one of the chain of islands making up the Pacific nation of Vanuatu, made a startling discovery. The previously blue-green water in a three kilometre wide lake, perched at the top of a 1500 metre high active volcano, had suddenly turned bright red."It's quite red, like red wine," said Esline Garaebiti, the geo-hazards manager for Vanuatu's Department of Geology, Mines and Water Resources. But exactly why remains a mystery, she said, adding that water samples were being sent to Belgium and New Caledonia for analysis.Lake Voui is believed to have been blasted into existence about 420 years ago when the volcano, Mount Manaro, exploded. It erupted again last November, forming a cone in the middle of the lake, before going quiet again in December. However, Manaro continues to smoke.No one knows just when the lake turned red, but villagers, who consider it sacred, discovered the colour change on May 21 and reported their discovery three days later."They were surprised," said Ms Garaebiti. "This is not normal to them and they were wondering what was going on."We don't have any records of it turning red before, but there are legends, stories of the old people, of the water turning red, then black." According to the legends, having the water turning to "blood means war"."Of course, the water is turning red due to some chemical reaction," said Ms Garaebiti, who noted that the lake's colour resembled oxidised iron, or rust.Bernie Joyce, a vulcanologist at Melbourne University, said temperature changes or seismic events, such as earthquakes, caused lakes to change colour by disrupting layers of water containing different chemicals. "It can bring up stuff from below," said Professor Joyce, explaining that nutrients could trigger colourful algae blooms and minerals could reflect light in different ways.South Australia's Blue Lake, a volcanic crater at Mount Gambier, was one such lake, undergoing an annual switch in summer from grey to blue.But Professor Joyce said the sudden redness of the Vanuatu lake was interesting.While volcanoes did spew out iron-rich ash, "oxidation requires oxygen", he said. "You don't get a lot of oxygen in a volcano."He speculated that chlorine and sulfur from the volcano may have somehow reacted with iron in the lake, but the chemistry required, he conceded, was "all a bit tricky".http://www.news.vu/en/news/environment/060...-colour-3.shtml
 

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http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/06/02...rain/index.htmlThere's something else to do with stuff turning red - though perhaps for a different reason.There are no explicit references of water turning red and so forth in the latter days but there is (IMHO) an indirect reference that is worth mentioning.Psalms 75:8 For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.This cup is mentioned in other places in the Bible and it signifies the wrath of God that will be poured out at the Final Judgement.Revelation 14:10The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:Revelation 16:19And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.Just worth thinking about IMHO.
 
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