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There have been 4 major earthquakes over 3 different tectonic plates in the last 36 hours, and a minor earthquake over another plate

Mexico 7.1- Cocos plate
Vanuatu 6.4-Pacific plate
Japan 6.1-Pacific plate
New Zealand 6.1-Australia plate
USA 3.8-North American plate

Are we about to experience a major seismic shifting?
 
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If the weather can be manipulated I'm not surprised if earthquakes etc can be too
First, there's no concrete scientific proof of either. Second, the amount of energy required if we assume weather is manipulated is exponentially larger for seismic manipulation. Mt St Helens volcanic eruption released energy was equivalent to 1600 Hiroshima level nuclear weapons. I believe it's impossible to produce that much energy even if you used the entire planets electrical output.
 

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Mt St Helens volcanic eruption released energy was equivalent to 1600 Hiroshima level nuclear weapons. I believe it's impossible to produce that much energy even if you used the entire planets electrical output.

A number of things.

One, Little Boy was very much a prototype bomb only delivering 15 kilotons of force. The Tsar thermonuclear bomb was tested was the equivalent of ~3333 Hiroshima level nuclear weapons. Full maxed out in design at 100 Megatons and it'd have the energy equivalent of a magnitude 9 earthquake (or ~6666 Hiroshima level nuclear weapons). As noted, though, the average hurricane is equivalent in energy to ~10,000 nuclear weapons (seems the site I'm using is using a much lower 4 kiloton standard for nuclear weapons). Either way, the biggest thing is something like a super volcano eruption which far outstrips the whole world's nuclear arsenal.

Two, weather modification has been shown to be somewhat effective with cloud seeding, but it's not a very exact science (it would seem to encourage premature rain but not enough of how much or when/where). Such doesn't require mass amounts of energy, just mass amounts of silver iodine and a willingness to accept very unpredictable results.

Three, it'd be probably very doable to cause earthquakes but it'd be very noticeable: large drilling equipment near a fault, a measurable explosion from a nuke prior to the earthquake, and then measurable radiation. All-in-all, a very obvious thing.
 
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Can't tell if the Earth is trying to be spooky for Halloween but is a month early, or we're just all screwed.

Hurricanes and earthquakes are hitting at an alarming rate; seeing storms that go past cat 1 or quakes over 6.0 are out of the ordinary as well, so it's not just numerous occurrences, it's also the fact that these disasters are strong. Time to get ready to roleplay Fallout at this point, really.
 

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Can't tell if the Earth is trying to be spooky for Halloween but is a month early, or we're just all screwed.

Hurricanes and earthquakes are hitting at an alarming rate; seeing storms that go past cat 1 or quakes over 6.0 are out of the ordinary as well, so it's not just numerous occurrences, it's also the fact that these disasters are strong. Time to get ready to roleplay Fallout at this point, really.
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Can't tell if the Earth is trying to be spooky for Halloween but is a month early, or we're just all screwed.

Hurricanes and earthquakes are hitting at an alarming rate; seeing storms that go past cat 1 or quakes over 6.0 are out of the ordinary as well, so it's not just numerous occurrences, it's also the fact that these disasters are strong. Time to get ready to roleplay Fallout at this point, really.
I would say the planet is telling us to go duck ourselves.
 

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A number of things.

One, Little Boy was very much a prototype bomb only delivering 15 kilotons of force. The Tsar thermonuclear bomb was tested was the equivalent of ~3333 Hiroshima level nuclear weapons. Full maxed out in design at 100 Megatons and it'd have the energy equivalent of a magnitude 9 earthquake (or ~6666 Hiroshima level nuclear weapons). As noted, though, the average hurricane is equivalent in energy to ~10,000 nuclear weapons (seems the site I'm using is using a much lower 4 kiloton standard for nuclear weapons). Either way, the biggest thing is something like a super volcano eruption which far outstrips the whole world's nuclear arsenal.

Two, weather modification has been shown to be somewhat effective with cloud seeding, but it's not a very exact science (it would seem to encourage premature rain but not enough of how much or when/where). Such doesn't require mass amounts of energy, just mass amounts of silver iodine and a willingness to accept very unpredictable results.

Three, it'd be probably very doable to cause earthquakes but it'd be very noticeable: large drilling equipment near a fault, a measurable explosion from a nuke prior to the earthquake, and then measurable radiation. All-in-all, a very obvious thing.
Yeah it checks out, Czar Bombas max yield was 100,000,000 tons of TNT and a 9.0 measures at 99,000,000 tons. Plus N Koreas nuke test triggered tremors. I think the drilling would be difficult though. Anyways, it's still extremely frightening to see this happening because as mentioned....super volcanoes which are heavily influenced by....earthquakes.
 

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I'm still waiting for those.jubus freaks to start preaching :-P
Blame the gay's I tell ya!
The tragic irony is that most of the locations hit recent with hurricanes were anti-LGBT+/Religious states.
 

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Are you calling Linux stupid?
Linux is causing all of this. Isn't strange that you are only seeing Windows getting broken during these incidents, but never Linux?
 

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