Special Report: Nuclear Explosion and Earthquakes?
Nuclear Testing is responsible for 25 per cent of all earthquakes: UK Seismic Expert--Artificial earthquake to test artificial heart:
MAN MADE EARTHQUAKES A REALITY Modern science has been misused for destructive purpose to such an such an extent that it is possible to create artificial earthquakes or Man made earthquakes: "Often individuals wonder whether construction of a reservoir, hydrocarbon production, or the injection of fluids into the ground caused an earthquake at a specific location. Several well-documented cases exist where such large engineering projects and damaging earthquakes are genetically related. In most of these cases, the engineering projects themselves most likely did not create the stresses that caused the earthquake, but rather changed local conditions in such a way as to allow an earthquake to occur." says a scientific report.
" The difference between inducing an earthquake and triggering an earthquake is subtle but important; generally, human activity will not create enough stress in the underlying rocks to cause an earthquake large enough to be recorded by distant seismographs. However, the activity can change the physical conditions at depth and thus allow an earthquake to occur; we call these seismic events triggered earthquakes," it says..
The different activities that can trigger or induce earthquakes include impounding of deep artificial water reservoirs, underground mining, large-scale surface quarrying, high pressure fluid injection, removal of subterranian fluids for hydrocarbon production, and underground explosions. For example, reservoir-induced seismicity has been documented in China, central Africa, Greece, India, Egypt, Russia, Italy, South Carolina, Arizona, and California (Oroville Reservoir). The first well documented example occurred when Lake Mead, formed by Hoover Dam on the Colorado River, began filling in the late 1930's. The largest and most damaging reservoir-induced earthquake occurred on December 10, 1967, at Koyna, India , and claimed over 200 lives while destroying much of the Koyna Nagar town," says one report.
"Pumping fluids into the ground at high pressure plays a major role in geothermal power generation, oil production, solution mining, and hazardous waste disposal. The first well-documented case of triggered seismicity due to fluid injection occurred at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal near Denver, Colorado during the early 1960's, where there was no previously recorded seismicity. Following these earthquakes, a fluid-injection experiment carried out in Rangely, Colorado, in a producing oil field proved that injecting high pressure fluids into geologic formations under the right conditions of stress could trigger earthquakes.
In several locations, earthquakes and faulting have also accompanied fluid extraction. These earthquakes occur particularly in large shallow hydrocarbon fields from the release of stresses built up throughout the producing region as reservoir fluid pressures are reduced. Contraction of the reservoir rock drives the rock above and below the producing layer into compression, while rocks on the edge of the producing field extend since they are not displaced as much as rocks directly above. Examples of seismicity probably triggered by fluid extraction include Goose Creek, Texas; Buena Vista Hills, California; Rocky Mountain House, Canada; Lacq, France; Fashing, Texas; and probably the most clear example, Willmington oil field, California."Mining activities involve the removal of mass from a continuos body and easily can change physical conditions in the surrounding rock. Mine excavations act as stress concentrators, often leading to increases in seismic activity ranging from microseismic acoustic emissions to full scale tremors with magnitude of 5. Mine seismicity includes spallations, tunnel collapse, gas outbursts, "bumps," and rockbursts, as well as real earthquakes. Some examples of mine-induced seismicity include Wappinger's Falls, New York, in a dolomitic limestone quarry reaching a depth of about 50 meters and surface area of about 1 square kilometer and in the Belchatow trench, Poland, at a large strip mining operation centering on brown coal at about 200 meters depth
Artificial earthquake is also stimulated to test other healthcare products. Brisbane medical technology company, Micromedical, used the National Science and Technology Center’s earthquake simulator to run the latest round of tests on the company’s artificial heart – a new product targetted at a world market estimated to be worth $ 12 billion. A report last November quoted Micromedical chief executive Dr John Woodard as saying that the simulator would be used for two days in a bid to replicate the type of motions the artificial heart would experience in a human body. Micromedical’s artificial heart, or heart pump, which has successfully undergone a series of animal trials in the year 2000, is expected to be ready for human clinical trials next year.
KAREN NAKAMURA has published in Coastal Post, a specialised magazine comparing nuclear tests and the corresponding earthquake caused by the test. “The Chinese and French have, so far, cleverly held their blast sizes down to low-middle range. I say cleverly because if the powers-that-be are developing weapons based on creating earthquakes in designated areas, they couldn't better obscure the results than set off tests in the 10 to 30 kiloton range. These tests have usually set off corresponding quakes of the same magnitude.
Several small quakes occurred in Healdsburg and the East Bay several days after the last Chinese and French tests. Since the second Chinese test on August 17, 1995 there was a constant series of hurricanes in the Caribbean. It seemed those hurricanes were winding down when the French test was set off and the hurricanes continued forming.(keralamonitor.com)