It would be really interesting to map the concentric expanding-contracting force waves against the equations of linear force spread through the cracks of the global fault system. The math for that is over my head. But the geometry isn't. A lot of other examples show the power of crossing a line over a circle or a sphere. That's always something to watch for. And fault lines tend to be fractals, like a river or a tree. So it has to be calculable; it's made of math. Possibly math nobody here knows how to read, but still math. You might not be able to forecast earthquakes in general, but if you could hack that math, I bet it would tell you whether a given quake is strong enough to cause a countercoup quake, and if so, whether the countercoup is severe enough to need a warning. You'd have hours of warning ... less the time required to crunch the math.
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Earthquakes Beget Earthquakes
It would be really interesting to map the concentric expanding-contracting force waves against the equations of linear force spread through the cracks of the global fault system. The math for that is over my head. But the geometry isn't. A lot of other examples show the power of crossing a line over a circle or a sphere. That's always something to watch for. And fault lines tend to be fractals, like a river or a tree. So it has to be calculable; it's made of math. Possibly math nobody here knows how to read, but still math. You might not be able to forecast earthquakes in general, but if you could hack that math, I bet it would tell you whether a given quake is strong enough to cause a countercoup quake, and if so, whether the countercoup is severe enough to need a warning. You'd have hours of warning ... less the time required to crunch the math.
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