Could someone explain what the graphs are portraying? What units are the X axis in? What would a typical earthquake event look like in one of those graphs?

@ David
….sure hope that this Guy is wrong.
He sounds like another Bush Tea nut….

Come to think of it, Granny was trembling a lot towards the end too….

@ David / Checkit-out
What can one say about the graphs?
Ominous !!!?

Hopefully we will find out that the graphs are a hoax; have been misunderstood; or have somehow been affected by some electronic glitch… and not by HAARP as the presenter is hinting, or by CERN as the bushman fears….

The Bushman previously drew the BU family’s attention to the dastardly HAARP experimentation and to CERN, the total nonsense being perpetrated in Switzerland under the guise of pure science research (yea right!!)

In short, there are a number of idiots in our world controlling energies systems that are beyond their comprehension.
…like monkey playing with gun. It is just a matter of time…

David, BT
The video only tangentially answered my question. It seems to be suggesting that we are in the midst of seriously heightened seismic activity around the world. A look at the recent earthquake activity, however, does not appear to be significantly higher than normal to my uneducated eye.

What I was really trying to get at was exactly what are the graphs showing? Is there really heavy seismic activity in Gun Hill, miles below the surface that no one has noticed? It is practically a truism that before a major earthquake there are certain signs that persons attuned with the earth can pick up without using fancy instruments; eg. livestock and other animals becoming disturbed and heading for reasonably safe sites; swimming pool levels fluctuating; etc. Has anyone noticed this at Gun Hill or elsewhere in Barbados.

I think we need to ask Jeremy Collymore to explain these graphs as well as someone from the Seismic Research Unit at UWI, St Augustine, Trinidad, to get their take on if there is indeed significantly heightened activity throughout the world and indeed in Barbados.

I have some sympathy and empathy with the narrator of the video. I graduated from being a Science Fiction nut to being someone who has followed fairly carefully the writings of most of the people who have published books on the coming apocalypse. I have not entirely discounted the Mayan Long Tun predictions, beautifully explained in Graham Hankock’s books, for the end of the world in 2012 nor Zechariah Sitchin’s similar predictions about the return of the Plant X or Nibiru, nor Emmanuel Velikovsky’s writings on past and present catastrophes, nor Napier and Clube’s several papers on historical catastrophism or the fact that near earth asteroids have decimated the earth in the past and will do so sometime in the future, despite our improving capacity to plot their movements in space, nor the HAARP project, nor the Tesla experiments, etc.

However, I am mindful that our mainstream Scientists, here as well as worldwide, are almost to a man, very dismissive of all of these theories and can usually bring hard facts to show that what we may now think of as very weird weather was the norm early in the 20th century, that there are no more earthquakes being recorded today than has been recorded historically; etc. etc.

Essentially, I think we may have something to fear, but we need to get further credible information before we flee Barbados and flee to Canada or certain parts of the USA or Australia, where it has been reported that several billionaires have purchased land and are royally outfitting bunkers of massive proportions in case the big one hits.

Sir Bentwood Dick;
Thanks for your very comprehensive reply.

@ DAVID

As was suspected and the seismic research does hold out empirically – new just in from (CHINA)*
– 22 killed as quake topples buildings….

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42002746/ns/world_news-asiapacific/

X-FLARE:
YESTERDAY – March 9th ended with a powerful
solar flare. Earth-orbiting satellites detected
an X1.5-class explosion from behemoth sunspot 1166 around 2323… UT.

A movie from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory
shows a bright flash of UV radiation…

See More: http://spaceweather.com/

Volcanoes & Earthquakes predicted…

Massive earthquake in Japan a few minutes ago.

#Tsunami warning is widened to include rest of Pacific coast, including #Australia and #South America, after massive #earthquake in #Japan

Russia evacuates 11 000 people on Tsunami warning and Honolulu on tsunami alert!

Here is a previous blog on Tsunami preparedness.

Hi David
MSNB was showing some really scary videos of the Japan Tsunami damage. I wonder if BT is right and Bentwood only partially right.

@ DAVID

WHEN I SENT YOU AN EMAIL EARLIER THIS WEEK – “A FEW OF US KNEW WHAT WAS COMING DOWN THE SUBTERRANEAN PIKE”…

THANKFULLY, BU*** HEEDED THE CALL AND YOU POSTED THE LINK I SENT TO YOU REGARDING BARBADOS – BUT WHAT WAS SUBSEQUENTLY SHOWN IN MY REMARKS WHICH ARE THERE FOR ALL THE WORLD TO SEE, WAS WHAT I SAID REGARDING WHAT WILL BE A “cataclysmic” EVENT FORTHCOMING….

THE SAD IRONY David* IS THAT THE “MOTHER OF ALL QUAKES” (which the BBC is calling a “natural” disaster in Japan) IS MERELY THE TIP OF A SINKING ICEBERG OF WHAT IS TO COME!!!

WATCH THIS IMPLODING SPACE!!!

@TB, is it the most powerful quake ever recorded ?

You end of the world theorists are going to have seismic intellectual orgasms.

Hants, here is the list of largest quakes.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/world/10_largest_world.php

Here is the map of current quakes, worldwide

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/

Here is the main page for interesting reading on quakes generally

The red on maps denotes the time, last hour. Blue, last day, yellow, during the last week.

The size of the boxes indicates the magnitude.

For detail on the quakes, click on the region or box, such as by the Antilles.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/

Here is the list of quakes in the Caribbean, note the Mag 7.5 in 1974. Click on it for details. Note also the 8.3 in 1843.

Although those are the largest recorded here, there was also a Mag 7 close to Barbados, I have to find it again.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/world/historical_country.php

End-Of-The-World Theorists or NOT* – does not refute the inevitability of what MUST* come to pass…

What a quote……LMAO!!……surely TB, you could have done better but thanks for the laugh.

@ TMB,

I am about to go to lunch at a very nice West Indian restaurant.

I will be driving in the comfort of my warm car listening to music on my Bose sound system.

Of course I could stay here and debate the doom and gloom with you but I would be a real “bajan expletive” idiot.

Supermoon next weekend …. run for the hills.
Earthquakes, tsunamis and heavy storms and tides. March 19th.
Then again it may be just a rehearsal for 21.12.12.

Have another rum, and chill a little, we should be much more concerned with the man-made financial catastrophe which will soon engulf us all, to which there will be almost no protection.

//And there came about a glaz-ed look in the eyes. Terence of Blackett was instructed to go forth and advise…of a time henceforth…of severe calamity…

@CH Yes, Earthquakes are normal…and indeed happen daily, but I have been watching for the past number of years and yes, the stresses in the areas mentioned do seem to have itensified.

That is not mumbo-jumbo, that is empirical evidence.

And no, I have no need to accumulate data and chart….I have better things to do..in our SHORT days left on Earth…not because of calamity, but because of our human bodies….

😉

Do like Hants..work to live including eat, drink and cavort…and ‘reflect a little bit)!

Straight Talk; The end of the world, as interpreted by Graham Hancock from the Mayan Long Tun measurements will be 23-12-2012. Other apocalypse writers have slightly different dates but most in December 2012. Somewhat like Sir Bentwood I’ve been following the Science, Pseudoscience and urban myths of the “coming calamity” and to tell the truth I’m at the stage where I expect that there will be no apocalypse at that time. But I wouldn’t bet on it.

Since Graham Hancock is English and presumably UK centric it is probably GMT he is talking about. However, he could just as well be referring to Mayan time so it might be Belize or Guatemala or some such like time. Both of these times suggest that it would be the 23rd for us in Barbados.

to think that the government of Barbados still want to build high rise buildings .These things are death traps and most vulnerable to Earth quakes. The government need to rethink this kind of housing planning as earthquakes are becoming more frequent and volatile and no country is immune to them.

@ac: “[High rise buildings] are death traps and most vulnerable to Earth quakes.

Not if they are properly engineered.

@BT: “maybe you need to cultivate a more enlightened class of client….!!

LOL.. You might be correct. The client was a Government of Barbados owned Corporation….

@CH. &anthony.
Until there is “concrete “evidence to support your theories. I would not change my mind. For as much as I have seen the devastation in many an earthquake world wide some of these buildings were built during the time of such occurences in other countries and some such thought must have been giving in their planning.

@ac, You are quite correct, earthquake ‘proof’ (not necessarily) buildings are very expensive due to the level of engineering and level of complex foundations required. Indeed, those in Japan are built to withstand up to a mag 8.0 (only).

Basically you are looking at special foundations that absorb the shock, allowing the buildings to flex. Very expensive.

But, they are not an absolute and generally most buildings will collapse or be structurally damaged beyond repair, if the quake is powerful, enough.

For example, look at those (shatterproof) rulers…I have seen them broken on many an occasion.

All it is, that they allow a certain amount of flex. After that, they crack like any other.

Barbados and barbadians do not have the resources to build such ‘high rise’ buildings.

CH; I really admire your faith in your knowledge of Science. I wonder how many other people, one day after an earthquake, on being warned that an aftershock is likely, at whatever time that day, would treat it as nonchalantly as you did.

Perhaps you calculated in your head the probabilities of an aftershock hitting us at varying times after the small one that hit us and concluded that one could not be at 3.30, but do you think there was a small probability of there being one at sometime over the next few minutes, hours, days or weeks, given the inexactitude of the science? After all Earthquakes are notorious for spawning aftershocks, sometimes at regular intervals. And might it not have been prudent rather than laughable, stupid or foolish for your client to move his car under those circumstances?