Science Facts about the Recent Bohol/Cebu Quake

[hanzheyteta]

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informative. nice one.

[aldrin89]

google ra guro na.. ^_^

LOL. karon rka nakaila ni Rods? hehe

[cromagnon]

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[POPiO]

LOL. karon rka nakaila ni Rods? hehe

wa lage.. bag-o pa man ko member dri.. ^_^
unsa d.i iya profession? ..

[racing]

well said ~ bravo!

[woodpusher]

google ra guro na.. ^_^

Googlist?....

[hobie]

nice. naa ko na learn tonight ba. thanks

[jofer]

boss rod ug mga sir.is there a chance that we get hit by tsunami even if cebu is surrounded by islands?

[Bears Grill]

Earthquakes occur due to shifts in tectonic plates. These plates are sections of earth's crust, "floating" on a sea of semi-solid mantle. The reason why it's difficult to predict when earthquakes will occur or where they will occur, is because we cannot see the stress building up in faults, which are sections where two plates collide or meet. Now think...if there was just a way to follow the flow of convective currents in the earth's mantle beneath these plates, then we can easily compute stress build up per major plate (and subplates).....

Nice.

Who would've thought that earthquakes are nothing more than the energy released from an accumulated strain in between two plates that are trying to get un-stuck?

Science has made huge advances in our understanding of earthquakes and its underlying physical laws. It's amazing how we stumbled upon a method of rigorously testing hypothesis and came up with so much understanding about the world around us, from the large cosmic scale to the quantum scale. It's all about rolling up your sleeves, finding things out and testing ideas...instead of just lying back and thinking about the intentions of a supernatural agent.

I just hope people didn't flee into a church during such quakes--it would be a disaster. even if reinforced, their building materials (stone) are really too heavy and will eventually collapse due to the weight alone, leaving the "skeletal" structure (the internal steel bracing) the only parts standing. I see this sort of damage to churches now in my FB newsfeed, re reinforced ones.

-RODION

Faith will always find a way to square the absurd. They'd say it's a miracle that, although the churches collapsed, some statues were unscathed. Well, some traffic lights in Cebu were unscathed. Should we worship the traffic light and the holy trinity of red-yellow-green?

[enimavix]

now i know