#Earthquakes
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Hi, Tom–
Welcome to the forum!
I have been waiting to see if the pros who haunt this section had good
references on causes and effects of earthquakes, but I guess your question was
too all-encompassing to stir up much interest. And/or well-known on-line
references do not exist; can we interest you in a textbook?
The Scientific American of March 1990 talks about non-plate-tectonic quake
origins; there are more articles on the subject listed in my Scientific
American index SCIAM.ARC in this forum's library.
sci.geo.earthquakes is a newsgroup that is more specialized on this subject;
see my notes on accessing newsgroups from CompuServe in SCIGEO.TXT in this
forum's library. People there may know more about Internet resources (as
oppposed to CompuServe resources).
You may stir up more action here if you ask a more specific question.
Happy hunting!
–Doug
Thanks for your response and I will take your advice and try that area.
Tom
I am an amateur who has been following earthquakes for about 40 years. Notice
that the bigger ones tend to come in cluster – often far apart. Back when US
was still going to the moon, there was an experiment that caused the moon to
"ring". Got to thinking about similar effect across plates that might lead to
earthquake prediction based on mathmatic tracking of vibrations across/through
plates. Do not have the math skills to work out the equations. also looking
for a free/inexpensive map program to help track earthquakes. If you find
anything, would you mind passing it on?