Interesting Article ...
As solid as the ground may seem beneath or feet, it's not. We're standing on the very thin, cold, skin of a boiling, bubbling caludron of extremely high temperature gases, and liquids that stretch all the way down to the planets core. Cook some thick spaghetti sauce on the stove and watch the bubbles flowing up and bursting. It's very much like that. But lucky for us much of it goes on many miles below us so we can't tell. But what happens when those pockets of gas, or liquid material rise and burst or even slowly infiltrate the crustal rocks above?
One would naturally assume that this would be a cause for earthquakes. Even the shear-stress models asr based on continental drift. What keeps those rocks drifting anyway? Currents in the mantle, of course. Same thing isn't it?
And as I have said previously there is much anecdotal, and much documented evidence showing changes in the composition of ground water to name just one example just prior to an earthquake event.
This should not be dismissed out of hand. The only problem I see is that the equipment someone like Dr. Shou, or anyone persuing his hypothesis, would need to make truly accurate predicitions or studies of the phenomena don't exist at this time.
Tom aka XR I had to stop driving my car. The tires got dizzy.
I appreciate the impression the author is imparting to his audience about the way the Earth's crust is composed.Conchman said:
As solid as the ground may seem beneath or feet, it's not. We're standing on the very thin, cold, skin of a boiling, bubbling caludron of extremely high temperature gases, and liquids that stretch all the way down to the planets core. Cook some thick spaghetti sauce on the stove and watch the bubbles flowing up and bursting. It's very much like that. But lucky for us much of it goes on many miles below us so we can't tell. But what happens when those pockets of gas, or liquid material rise and burst or even slowly infiltrate the crustal rocks above?
One would naturally assume that this would be a cause for earthquakes. Even the shear-stress models asr based on continental drift. What keeps those rocks drifting anyway? Currents in the mantle, of course. Same thing isn't it?
And as I have said previously there is much anecdotal, and much documented evidence showing changes in the composition of ground water to name just one example just prior to an earthquake event.
This should not be dismissed out of hand. The only problem I see is that the equipment someone like Dr. Shou, or anyone persuing his hypothesis, would need to make truly accurate predicitions or studies of the phenomena don't exist at this time.
Tom aka XR I had to stop driving my car. The tires got dizzy.