Huge influx of readers for some reason

 On Google Analytics, I get my usual 3 readers a day, and a small number of tourists.  The Blogger stats are always contaminated by link spam and get 10,000 per day.  Now I suddenly got a 'legimate' 1.4K readers, but maybe there is a hack going on.

If suddenly, thousands of people want to follow the 'Rational Path' then you can buy me a cup of coffee.  You will be disappointed if you want to follow a guru, because I bite all the hands that feed me.

The Rational Path is just the Scientific Method.  It came into being because of the endless 'quackery' of the Victorian Era, or Snake Oil.  We now live in an era of snake oil, because of influencers with thousands of followers, and that defines 'truth'.

We have the snake oil of climate change.  I do not argue against it, because 'argument' does not lead to scientific progress.  If we recast the issue in the Scientific Method, we put forward a hypothesis that can be tested.  The test must allow for the hypothesis to 'fail'.  Religious faith cannot fail, and Climate Change cannot fail by means of an experiment.

We have so many 'faiths' that I cannot recall them all.  The blogs were about the coming of El Nino, and earthquake engineering.  These are faiths and tradition and prop up a 'priesthood' who cannot afford to say 'My Bad'.  When you see that, look out.

Thank you for giving me the illusion of readership, which can only be confirmed by coffee.  I am safe from the countless priesthoods with academic blood on their hands, because to argue with me would make things 10 times worse.  If I really thought I was becoming an influencer, I would hide under a big rock.

The deaths by earthquakes are an example of what happens when the real world meets faith.  They should have not happened.  A simple sensor can tell if your building is going to kill you, but that requires physics, and the Scientific Method.  Not going to happen, since the SM can shatter a priesthood in a blink.  Much too dangerous.

Earthquake methodology has an obvious physical failure.  Rockets blow up.  The El Nino will not show up, and excuses will be made, or all of it is totally forgotten.  The waste of resources, however, results in thousands of deaths, as people fall in Standard of Living.

ps no coffees.  It all looks like an exploit of link spam.  Neat.

Nino zone hooks down

 As explained yesterday, the mechanism of two ships passing in the night, cause a big spike and now we are going to have a big drop.  

This should be quite something.  Don't you worry, though, El Santa is real in the hearts and minds of all those people who make money from him.  Our weather is boring, but I'll keep updating this.  Unless I'm wrong, of course, then I'll hide.

Thrust earthquakes in outer disturbed zones

 Two thrust earthquakes this week.  First, a big one in the Philippines.  Then a smaller one north of Cuba.

The size of this one is defined by the aftershock zone.

The Cuba earthquake most likely won't have aftershocks.  These earthquakes can pack a punch close to the epicentre.  

Damage for weak construction, but a lot of buildings stood.  This is typical for 20 cm/s.  All buildings should ride through this level of ground motion.  We won't get recordings here.