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Edgar E. Escultura
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posted 30. March 2006 20:32
Bruce, I would rather welcome your critique of my work.
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Edgar E. Escultura
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posted 31. March 2006 08:18
This is just a little note about eclipse. During solar eclipse the Sun, Moon and Earth are aligned with the Moon between the Sun and the Earth. Since all three has the same gravitational flux spin the Sun’s and Moon’s fluxes between the Moon and the Earth reinforce each other while the Earth’s flux is in the opposite direction. By flux compatibility, the former pushes the latter down. Over the ocean this causes deep low tide that pushes the ocean plate down more than the land plate which is porous. The effect is to enhance the dis-alignment of the plates at a pace greater than normal during low tide every 12 hours with the ocean plate moving faster towards subjunction under the land plate. When an eclipse crosses lands and oceans, as what happened yesterday, from Northern Africa through the Mediterranean, Black Sea, Caspian Sea and the Asian Continent around Iran, the occurrence of earthquake is advanced beyond normal. True enough, there is a major earthquake in Iran today. This causal relationship between solar eclipse and earthquake was dramatically verified during the long solar eclipse of September 1999 that crossed from Romania in Eastern Europe through Timor in the South Pacific. Within six months major earthquakes hit Turkey (twice), Iran, Taiwan (twice), Malaysia and the Philippines. Since the plates are interconnected around the world, any movement of a plate is bound to affect plate boundaries elsewhere, the effect being massive pouring out of magma from underneath the Earth’s tectonic plates at constructive boundaries that, in time, raises the frequency of volcanic eruptions. This was the case following the 1999 eclipse.
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Edgar E. Escultura
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posted 31. March 2006 09:44
Clarification.
The eclipse-earthquake analysis applies only to tectonic earthquake, not earthquake originating at fault line although in some cases this is triggered by subjunction. I don't know what kind the recent Iranian earthquake is. Most likely it belongs to the second kind resulting from the collision between the Indian subcontinent and the Asian landmass millions of years ago that has not settled yet. The analysis remains valid with respect to the September 1999 earthquake.
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Bruce Fast
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posted 31. March 2006 12:01
While the gravitational effects of the sun and moon are strongest when they are "perfectly" aligned, such as during an eclipse, I wonder really how much difference there is between the eclipse and a normal new moon event. Obviously an easy way to determine this would be to analyse tide tables. Is there a noteable diffence between the eclipse tide and the new moon tide? I doubt it very much.
Further, as the earth is in an eliptical orbit around the sun, the distance that the earth is from the sun also affects the tides. This effect definitely shows up in the tide tables. I am willing to buy into a theory that when the earth is close to the sun there would be more earthquakes. I suspect, however, that the gravitational difference between the earth being close to and far from the sun is more than an order of magnitude greater than the diffence between the tides of a new moon and those of a solar eclipse.
As correlation does not proove causation, and as we humans are very quick to see causation when it isn't there, I suspect that the eclipsequake hypothesis will not stand.
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posted 03. April 2006 05:12
Yes, I agree there is need for more study. I just noticed the unusally high frequency of major earhquakes and volcanic eruptions following the the 1999 eclipse. The additional factor during an eclipse is resonance-reinforcement which can qualitatively differ from the combination of the separate effects of the Moon and Sun when they are not aligned. This is an open question that can be verified empirically using historical records.
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posted 04. April 2006 02:03
The closest analogue to tectonic subjunction is metal fatigue. Metal belongs to the category of malleable material that has free electrons. Everything in nature is in motion and, in the case of metal, vibrating due to the impact of cosmic waves (like Brownian movement in liquid and gas). Vibration is rapid succession of distortion and restoration. Only elastic material vibrates. When elastic material like steel is distorted (e.g., bent) within limit some valence electrons (molecular connector) are expelled and when it is restored some free electrons replace the expelled ones. However, no material is perfectly elastic so that when this is repeated over a long period of time the valence electrons are depleted leading to a break or collapse of the material. This is particularly true of material under tension such as the pylon that holds the engine of the plane to the wing. The pylon is subjected to vibration coming from the firing of the engine in flight. Over time the depletion of valence electrons reaches a critical phase when the pylon gives. This is the cause of an American Airlines crash in Chicago in the 70s. The pylon broke and the engine fell causing the plane to tilt out of balance and crash. A slight increase in the usual speed of a plane raises the frequency of vibration and advances that critical phase.
In the case of the steady infinitesimal dis-alignment of tectonic plate boundary due to the tidal cycle a little extra push can advance it to cross that critical phase when plate breakage occurs at the boundary and one plate subjuncts under the other. It is now known that the recent earthquake in Iran was due to the motion of the Saudi plate relative to an adjacent plate. A little push can unlock conservative plates (pressing against each other) at their boundary causing abrupt sliding or breakage of rock or boulder across a fault line over their plate boundary or crack. That could have caused an earthquake.
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posted 04. April 2006 21:13
By the way, it was a DC 10 that crashed in Chicago in the 70s. DC is vulnerable to this kind of accident because it has one engine on each side of the wing and loses balance when one falls off.
An increase in the usual speed of a plane raises the frequency of vibration and can advance the onset of metal fatigue. For safety purpposes material should be tested under conditions of actual use.
Another example of an accident due to metal fatigue was the derailment of a train in Germany a couple of years ago. In trying to achieve smooth run a steel buffer layer was wound around each solid steel wheel of the train. The buffer had repetitive distortion as it crossed the rail joints to absorb the bumping effect. In time metal fatigue set in, the buffer broke, one end pierced the coach's floor and the other end dangling. When the train passed an intersection the dangling part got caught in the rails and pulled that coach alone into the other direction leading to the derailment.
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