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04-03-2010, 01:54 AM
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OK, folks. I have been a geologist for well over 30 years, and never once have I heard another geologist refer to an earthquake as a temblor. We call them ... earthquakes. It's those danged pantywaist newsreaders that discovered that word in some thesaurus, and think it sounds scientific.
That is all.
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04-03-2010, 02:04 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Anasleim, CA | | | No kidding Munj? I'm a geologist too! [secret handshake] Nevada...are you in mining?
And yeah, I call them earthquakes too. That's what we called them in college. That's what the USGS calls them. That's what Cal Tech calls them. The only time I see "temblor" is in the newspaper. |
04-03-2010, 06:17 AM
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04-03-2010, 11:07 AM
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Originally Posted by elgecko  No kidding Munj? I'm a geologist too! [secret handshake] Nevada...are you in mining?
And yeah, I call them earthquakes too. That's what we called them in college. That's what the USGS calls them. That's what Cal Tech calls them. The only time I see "temblor" is in the newspaper. | Engineering geologist. I just retired, though.
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04-03-2010, 02:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Munjibunga OK, folks. I have been a geologist for well over 30 years, and never once have I heard another geologist refer to an earthquake as a temblor. We call them ... earthquakes. It's those danged pantywaist newsreaders that discovered that word in some thesaurus, and think it sounds scientific.
That is all. | Ohhhhhhh the irony, 21k posts of randomness at others threads and now you get pissed at some guys calling your earth shakes temblors  |
04-03-2010, 02:47 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Studio City, CA | | | From the latin, the word "temblor" is recognized world-wide as earthquakes.
BTW, with quake activity in both the Atlantic and the Pacific, not to mention the Iceland volcano popping off, do you think that we are in an era of relatively high seismic activity?
Should I be worried about San Andreas finally cooking off? There have been a whole slew of unexplained water main breaks all over the city of Los Angeles over the past year. Skin stretching?
-richard
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04-03-2010, 04:38 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Lincolnshire, UK | | | I've never heard the term 'Temblor' used.
The media over here seem to generally use the term 'earthquake'. |
04-03-2010, 04:43 PM
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Originally Posted by vene-nemesis Ohhhhhhh the irony, 21k posts of randomness at others threads and now you get pissed at some guys calling your earth shakes temblors | ^^^^ +1,000,000! |
04-03-2010, 04:47 PM
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04-03-2010, 05:00 PM
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04-03-2010, 05:03 PM
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Originally Posted by StyleOverShow From the latin, the word "temblor" is recognized world-wide as earthquakes.
BTW, with quake activity in both the Atlantic and the Pacific, not to mention the Iceland volcano popping off, do you think that we are in an era of relatively high seismic activity?
Should I be worried about San Andreas finally cooking off? There have been a whole slew of unexplained water main breaks all over the city of Los Angeles over the past year. Skin stretching?
-richard | The San Andreas is SO 1980's.  Now, it's all about the Puente Hills Fault or some other not-yet-identified blind thrust fault. |
04-03-2010, 07:23 PM
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Originally Posted by vene-nemesis Ohhhhhhh the irony, 21k posts of randomness at others threads and now you get pissed at some guys calling your earth shakes temblors | LMAO!!!
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04-03-2010, 10:39 PM
| | Total Hyper-Elite Member | | Join Date: May 2000 Location: Groom Lake, NV | | Quote:
Originally Posted by StyleOverShow From the latin, the word "temblor" is recognized world-wide as earthquakes.
BTW, with quake activity in both the Atlantic and the Pacific, not to mention the Iceland volcano popping off, do you think that we are in an era of relatively high seismic activity?
Should I be worried about San Andreas finally cooking off? There have been a whole slew of unexplained water main breaks all over the city of Los Angeles over the past year. Skin stretching?
-richard | Recognized, but not used by geologists.
As for the water main breaks, how old are they? Some in San Diego are almost 100 years old against a 50-year design life. I suspect L.A. has similar problems. Also, the San Andreas doesn't run under L.A. You're biggest problems are the blind thrusts right under the city, like the Elysian Park Fault.
The 1994 Northridge Earthquake occurred on one. I was a consultant on a partially collapsed appartment complex in Northridge that experienced nearly 1g of vertical acceleration in addition to similar horizontal acceleration. Structures aren't designed to weigh twice as much as their static weight, but they are designed to resist cyclic lateral loading, to an extent.
Regarding the San Andreas, it's overdue in the southern section (San Berdoo south). It's been over 350 years since that section popped off, with an average 150-year recurrence interval. Something in the M7.5 to M8 range would have nasty repercussions for pretty much all of southern California.
I'm thinking we're likely to have a significant earthquake in Imperial Valley in the next few years, either on the San Jacinto system or Elsinore fault. There has been a LOT of seismic activity just south of the Mexican border over the last two or three years.
Finally, as Lucy Jones of the USGS says, "When you're having a lot of earthquakes, you tend to have a lot of earthquakes."
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04-03-2010, 10:42 PM
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Originally Posted by vene-nemesis Ohhhhhhh the irony, 21k posts of randomness at others threads and now you get pissed at some guys calling your earth shakes temblors | Now, be fair. I'd say at least 1K of those are focused and helpful. The rest are strictly for your entertainement.
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04-04-2010, 01:32 AM
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04-04-2010, 08:23 AM
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Originally Posted by bassteban At first I thought you were referring to *trembleurs* | I for one welcome our new alien overlords.
(Munji, I agree, it's frustrating, and I'm not a geologist, nor do I live in an earthquake prone area - although we do have them [very small] on rare occasions. I get really irritated at the media types trying to sound all "informed" by using unusual words to describe common events.  ])
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04-04-2010, 04:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Anasleim, CA | | | Speaking of earthquakes...I'm getting rollers RIGHT NOW in Anaheim! |
04-04-2010, 05:03 PM
| | | Never even heard the word used. On a side note when is that super volcano under Yellow Stone going to end life as we know it?  |
04-04-2010, 08:39 PM
| | Total Hyper-Elite Member | | Join Date: May 2000 Location: Groom Lake, NV | | | Munjibunga ... knows all, sees all. We were having Easter dinner at my in-laws, and it shook for over 30 seconds. I immediately knew it was big (by the duration) and far away (by the lack of damage and the time separation between the first arrivals of the P and S waves). My first guess was M6.5 to M7.0.
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