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eastern turkey had an earth quake last night, is it me or do there seem to be a higher than normal of earth quakes with in a short time period.

southy wrote:
eastern turkey had an earth quake last night, is it me or do there seem to be a higher than normal of earth quakes with in a short time period.

Doesn't one earthquake somewhere in the world often trigger others as the plates get settled? Earthquakes are common, though normally they're either too weak to make the news or they happen under the water away from human settlement. Unfortunately not this time though.

some time it do yes, but its normally on the same plate but much weaker. there are a number of different causes to earth quakes. heres the ones i can remember from school.
the meeting point of two plates that slide like the san andreas fault line
the upward or down ward of land mass caused by one plate over riding another plate like the andies mountain range (up-ward) or the greek peninsula (down-wards)
two plates meeting head on and compression of land takes place, the himalayas
and the most common one that happens all the time around the world and go's unnoticed most of the time, is where a plume of magma lava sticks to the bottom of the bed rock bringing the land mas down slowly till it gets to heavy and breaks off the sudden land mass rise causes small earth quakes about 0.3 to 1.0 on the richter scale. then once in 10 year you might experience a quake about 4.0 to 6.0. this type we get here in the uk, and we had 3 big ones with in 10 years

southy wrote:
eastern turkey had an earth quake last night, is it me or do there seem to be a higher than normal of earth quakes with in a short time period.

Haiti, Chile and Turkey recently but nothing abnormal Southy, quakes are going on all of the time globally. Another biggy out Indonesia/Japan way can't be far off, San Francisco too, anything over 6.5 is usually cause for concern, then it depends on how strong buildings are, and what sort of terrain they are built on ie solid buildings built on mud will topple. Check this out.

http://earthquake.us
gs.gov/earthquakes/r
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southy wrote:
some time it do yes, but its normally on the same plate but much weaker. there are a number of different causes to earth quakes. heres the ones i can remember from school.
the meeting point of two plates that slide like the san andreas fault line
the upward or down ward of land mass caused by one plate over riding another plate like the andies mountain range (up-ward) or the greek peninsula (down-wards)
two plates meeting head on and compression of land takes place, the himalayas
and the most common one that happens all the time around the world and go's unnoticed most of the time, is where a plume of magma lava sticks to the bottom of the bed rock bringing the land mas down slowly till it gets to heavy and breaks off the sudden land mass rise causes small earth quakes about 0.3 to 1.0 on the richter scale. then once in 10 year you might experience a quake about 4.0 to 6.0. this type we get here in the uk, and we had 3 big ones with in 10 years

Credit where it's due - That's not a bad description at all.
You must be younger than I thought, I only learned about Plate Tectonics after I left school. It was all very new for the then very new Open University.
But reports of earthquakes are a different thing to actual incidents. The modern day media like to make patterns out of anything - Earthquakes, train crashes, cranes falling over, everything!

southy wrote:
some time it do yes, but its normally on the same plate but much weaker. there are a number of different causes to earth quakes. heres the ones i can remember from school. the meeting point of two plates that slide like the san andreas fault line the upward or down ward of land mass caused by one plate over riding another plate like the andies mountain range (up-ward) or the greek peninsula (down-wards) two plates meeting head on and compression of land takes place, the himalayas and the most common one that happens all the time around the world and go's unnoticed most of the time, is where a plume of magma lava sticks to the bottom of the bed rock bringing the land mas down slowly till it gets to heavy and breaks off the sudden land mass rise causes small earth quakes about 0.3 to 1.0 on the richter scale. then once in 10 year you might experience a quake about 4.0 to 6.0. this type we get here in the uk, and we had 3 big ones with in 10 years

buy yourself an atlas Southy, they usually show the tectonic plates. They are usually quite close to volcanoes too.

Condor Man, you are correct and it is most noticeable around the Pacific Ring of Fire.

X Old Bill wrote:

southy wrote:
some time it do yes, but its normally on the same plate but much weaker. there are a number of different causes to earth quakes. heres the ones i can remember from school.
the meeting point of two plates that slide like the san andreas fault line
the upward or down ward of land mass caused by one plate over riding another plate like the andies mountain range (up-ward) or the greek peninsula (down-wards)
two plates meeting head on and compression of land takes place, the himalayas
and the most common one that happens all the time around the world and go's unnoticed most of the time, is where a plume of magma lava sticks to the bottom of the bed rock bringing the land mas down slowly till it gets to heavy and breaks off the sudden land mass rise causes small earth quakes about 0.3 to 1.0 on the richter scale. then once in 10 year you might experience a quake about 4.0 to 6.0. this type we get here in the uk, and we had 3 big ones with in 10 years

Credit where it's due - That's not a bad description at all.
You must be younger than I thought, I only learned about Plate Tectonics after I left school. It was all very new for the then very new Open University.
But reports of earthquakes are a different thing to actual incidents. The modern day media like to make patterns out of anything - Earthquakes, train crashes, cranes falling over, everything!

learned that at senior school and i am over 50, old bill. the name plate tectonics is reasonable new name but the idea of the earth crust moving is a lot older and was known about before the war, just that in the last 60 years they now know how all the plates are moving and in what direction and what speed.
i dont think theres any pattern to earth quakes but what might be causing more then normal is the the earth is changing shape, i explain a bit more, we know that a great amount of ice pushes the land down wards ( like in an ice age) and when it melts away the earth comes back up, about 10 years ago they discovered that with all the ice disappearing the earth is becoming more round has the poles have start to lift up and is losing that oval shape, this will change the pressure on all the plates.

not all condor theres no volcanoes in the himalayas where the indian plate is pushing in to the asia plate, it depends if the plate is sinking under another plate its this type that causes your normal volcanoes