Re: Can Earthquakes Be Predicted
Posted by Don in Hollister on March 29, 2001 at 16:33:57:

Hi Pavel. I apologize for referring to your country as Czechoslovakia. I had forgotten that it became the Czech Republic in 1993.

I think I need to go back to school. I was having some difficulty in understanding what you meant by 1E6 J. However came the light. Lets see if I have this right.

Energy is an inherent property of a system. Any system at a given set of conditions (e.g. pressure and temperature) has a certain energy content. The concept of energy invented to describe a number of processes such as conversion of work to heat. The SI unit of energy is joule (J). 1 MJ= 1E6 J.

So if I have this straight you are measuring the amount of energy released but not necessarily the movement until it reaches the 2nd or 3rd order above the mean level of 1E6 J?

Has this been tried in other areas such as Volcano Mountains? I understand there hasn’t been any activity the last few hundred years, but with the type of rock structure there it should be interesting to see what you might discover.

Are you by any chance with the Institute of Rock Structure and Mechanics Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic? Thank You…Don in creepy town.


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     ● Re: Can Earthquakes Be Predicted - Pavel Kalenda  09:06:29 - 3/30/2001  (6483)  (0)