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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (552366)	2/27/2010 2:45:59 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574491

Apolo Ohnoyoudidn't got his token bronze I didn't watch the race. Did Ohno push the other skaters as some are reporting? I know Ohno is competitive but he's not considered someone who would cheat to win. Oh wait, I think that might have been the race on Thursday. I can't remember now. And I hadn't realized there was bad blood between Korea and Ohno. When did that come about? BTW I didn't think the article was gloom and doom.....I thought it was fairly positive.....but I have heard others say they thought Nagase was better.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (552366)	2/27/2010 2:50:43 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574491

Look at the map....that's a hell of a lot of quakes in 7 days. Could it be global warming? lol. Big quake question: Is nature out of control? Seismic shockers are to be expected, but planet seems to be more active This color-coded map shows earthquakes that have been recorded over the previous seven days. The size of the box indicates the quake's strength, and the color indicates how recently the quake occurred. Notable quakes include the cluster of red boxes in Chile, and the blue box indicating a seismic event in Japan. Chile is on a hotspot of sorts for earthquake activity. And so the 8.8-magnitude temblor that shook the region overnight was not a surprise, historically speaking. Nor was it outside the realm of normal, scientists say, even though it comes on the heels of other major earthquakes. One scientist, however, says that relative to the time period from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s, Earth has been more active over the past 15 years or so. The Chilean earthquake, and the tsunami it spawned, originated on a hot spot known as a subduction zone, where one plate of Earth's crust dives under another. It's part of the active "Ring of Fire," a zone of major crustal plate clashes that surround the Pacific Ocean. "This particular subduction zone has produced very damaging earthquakes throughout its history," said Randy Baldwin, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey. The largest quake ever recorded, magnitude 9.5, occurred along the same fault zone in May 1960. Even so, magnitude-8 earthquakes occur globally, on average, just once a year. Since magnitudes are given on a logarithmic scale, an 8.8-magnitude is much more intense than a magnitude 8, and so this event would be even rarer, said J. Ramón Arrowsmith, a geologist at Arizona State University. Is Earth shaking more? The Ryukyu Islands of Japan were hit with a 7.0-magnitude quake on Friday night. News of that tremor, the Haiti quake and now Chile may make it seem as if Earth is becoming ever more active. But in the grand scheme of things, geologists say this is just Mother Nature as usual. "From our human perspective with our relatively short and incomplete memories and better and better communications around the world, we hear about more earthquakes and it seems like they are more frequent," Arrowsmith said. "But this is probably not any indication of a global change in earthquake rate of significance." Coupled with better communication, as the human population skyrockets and we move into more hazardous regions, we're going to hear more about the events that do occur, Arrowsmith added. read more....... msnbc.msn.com