The war coincidence ? Re: Aftershock forecast from Hindu Kush (Mw 7.2)
Posted by 2cents on March 03, 2002 at 19:52:12:

Interesting report.

Regarding your comments under the section "The War" here's an intersting coincidence.

(see the link):
The thermobaric bomb BLU-118S was among the more than 80 pieces of ordnance dropped on Saturday by US warplanes south of the Afghan city of Gardez where intelligence had discovered a concentration of Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters.


Gardez (inhabited place) is located at:
Lat: 33.617 Long: 69.117 (represented in decimal degress and fractions of degrees

The mag. 7.2 went off not too far away not too much later:

2002/03/03 12:08:06 36.44N 70.45E 194.9 7.2 A HINDU KUSH REGION, AFGHANISTAN

(The thermobaric bomb) works as a combination of a shock wave and a fuel explosion," Klee explained. "The first explosion spreads flammable aerosols through the underground complex. Then, the second ignites the fuel."

Hmmm.... Wasn't there a theory about quakes being triggered by underground gas explosions ?

Just another coincidence....

$.02