Cushing Oklahoma Intensity 6 earthquake

M4.0, recorded as an M4.6 in the directivity zone.

You can see it's a shallow strike-slip with a bit of thrust to get that high intensity.  Lo and behold, that's what it is.

This is right at the end of the big shear zone, so I'm guessing that the thrust aspect is mainly due to end effects.

There's not much activity elsewhere, so there is a chance that all the hard points have been removed and the whole thing is on the move.  Each intensity unit is a doubling of the PGV, so I'm guessing there are a lot of oil tank leaks today, and it's just short of the major ruptures.

We'll know soon enough, this should be answered by a thrust near the city.

Earthquake early warning again

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Wow, this is a slickly written piece by the PR department at Berkeley.  It's proof that this is the only way that scientists are allowed to communicate now.  I'm the only 'naked' scientist left.  :)

It's a very neato article written without a speck of physics.  I've written again and again on this silliness, but it's the only way that seismic monitoring gets funded these days.  So, what the heck.  It isn't the first time that unscientific nonsense gets a lot of funding.  :)

You should read this if you are in the PR department of a university.  It's an example of the pinnacle of the art.  I put this in the same category as Europe weighting co2 over carbon particulates in the latest diesel scandal.

Fun at Darlington Nuclear

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I'm amazed at what people can accept here.  I was paid a long time ago to defend nuclear against stupid articles like this one.  I mainly used science, and advocated research a scientific defence.  That way I got a lot of money out to my science buddies.  It helped me deal with the internal stupidities.

Now, there is no more science, just total silence.  Any comments come from a PR person.  But mostly it is a huge brick wall.  The silence is equated by the people as a sign of competence.  Darlington was a mass of stupidities that somehow came together to allow it to run.  I have written on the fundamental design flaw that chewed up the plant early (Water Laser), and on the horrible seismic parameters.  They'll have another chance to thread the needle with all the new refurbishments.  I don't think they can do it.

I was only inspired to write this because because people have been looking at my water laser series.  I really haven't found out anything new, and have detached from this for my own sanity.  :)