The Wenchuan Earthquake of 7.9 MM on 12 May 2008 was caused by the dams of the world.
The Wenchuan 12 May 2008 7.9 MM magnitude earthquake was
caused by the dams of the World.
1.0 USGS Siginificant Earthquake data base has the following
analysis:
MAY 12 06 28
01.5 31.002 N 103.322 E
19 G 7.9 1.2
774 EASTERN SICHUAN, CHINA. MW
7.9 (UCMT), 7.9 (GCMT). mb 6.9 (GS).
MS 8.1 (GS). ME 7.7 (GS). Mo 9.0*10**20 Nm (GCMT), 7.6*10**20 Nm
(UCMT),
1.3*10**21 Nm (PPT). Es 7.7*10**15 Nm (GS).
At least
69,195 people killed, 374,177 injured and 18,392 missing and presumed dead in the Chengdu-Lixian-Guangyuan area. More than 45.5 million people in 10 provinces and regions were affected. At least 15 million people were evacuated from their homes and more than 5 million were left homeless. An estimated 5.36 million
buildings collapsed and more than 21 million buildings were damaged in Sichuan and in parts of Chongqing, Gansu, Hubei, Shaanxi
and Yunnan. The total economic loss was estimated at 86 billion US dollars. Beichuan, Dujiangyan, Wuolong and Yingxiu were
almost completely destroyed. Landslides and rockfalls damaged or destroyed several mountain roads and railways and buried buildings in the Beichuan-Wenchuan area, cutting off access to the region for several days. At least 700 people were buried
by a landslide at Qingchuan. Landslides also dammed several rivers, creating 34 barrier lakes which threatened about 700,000
people downstream. A train was buried by a landslide near Longnan, Gansu. At least 2,473 dams sustained some damage and
more than 53,000 km of roads and 48,000 km of tap water pipelines were damaged. About 1.5 km of surface faulting was observed
near Qingchuan, surface cracks and fractures occurred on three mountains in the area, and subsidence and street cracks were
observed in the city itself. Maximum intensity XI was assigned in the Wenchuan area. Felt (VIII) at Deyang and Mianyang;
(VII) at Chengdu; (VI) at Luzhou and Xi'an; (V) at Chongqing, Guozhen, Lanzhou, Leshan, Wu'an, Xichang and Ya'an. Felt
in much of central, eastern and southern China, including Beijing, Guangzhou, Hefei, Nanjing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Wuhan and in
Hong Kong. Also felt in parts of Bangladesh, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. Seiches were observed at Kotalipara, Bangladesh.
2.0 Wikipedia has the following information:
According to a study by the China Earthquake Administration
(CEA), the earthquake occurred along the Longmenshan fault, a thrust structure
along the border of the Indo-Australian Plate and Eurasian Plate. Seismic
activities concentrated on its mid-fracture (known as Yingxiu-Beichuan
fracture). The rupture lasted close to 120 sec, with the majority of energy
released in the first 80 sec. Starting from Wenchuan, the rupture propagated at
an average speed of 3.1 kilometers per second 49° toward north east, rupturing
a total of about 300 km. Maximum displacement amounted to 9 meters. The focus
was deeper than 10 km.[13]
In a United States Geological Survey (USGS) study,
preliminary rupture models of the earthquake indicated displacement of up to 9
meters along a fault approximately 240 km long by 20 km deep.[22] The
earthquake generated deformations of the surface greater than 3 meters[23] and
increased the stress (and probability of occurrence of future events) at the
northeastern and southwestern ends of the fault.[23] On May 20, USGS
seismologist Tom Parsons warned that there is "high risk" of a major
M>7 aftershock over the next weeks or months.[24]
3.0 My analysis:
3.1 Summary
A displacement of 11.56 m vertically downwards occurred at
the quake location in 17 to 18 minutes between two successive earthquakes, the
later being the 7.9 MM Wenchuan quake. The World’s dam dynamics resulted in a
worldwide dam content change of 393.829 BCM at the time of occurrence of the
Wenchuan quake which exerted a water moment of 353.97 x 10^19.05 Nm on the
focal point resulting in this displacement. This water moment resulted in the
earthquake releasing energy of 4.47EXP16 (4.47x 10^16) Joules. The dam content
change resulted in a downward force of 3.863x10^15 N at the focal point causing
the 11.56 m downward displacement at the focal point occurring in 2 minutes.
This displacement occurred at the rate of 8324 m/d with a ground acceleration
rate of 5.994 million m/d/d downward! The mean displacement till before this
quake from 1 October 2007 was 0.266 m/d, downward and a mean acceleration of
0.782 m/d/d . This represents four
orders of magnitude increase in the rate of displacement and six orders of
magnitude increase in acceleration of level after the 7.9 MM magnitude quake. The
energy released in 120 seconds corresponds to a power of 372 Terawatts. By
comparison the entire electrical power capacity of the planet is 6 TW.
3.2 Brief Details of Analysis of the Wenchuan quake.
The 7.9 MM major earthquake caused a seismic moment of 70.79 x10^19.05
Nm at the focal point at 31.002, 103.322 at a depth of 19km. This was caused by a stress build up S of five
times this or 353.97x10^19.05 Nm( See Ref Turcotte et al in Ref 4). This was
caused by a total dam content change DBCM of 393.829 BCM corresponding to this stress build up at the
epicentre of the earthquake determined as follows: At the instance of this
earthquake the location of the centre of gravity of the water masses behind the
dams lay at the location 24.45, 95.93. The distance between the centre of
gravity 24.45, 95.93 and the epicentre of the earthquake at Wenchuan at
31.002,103.322 is D=1028 km. Thus the dam content change DBCM is given by
DBCM= S/10^15/9.81/D = 353.97x10^19.05/10^15/9.81/1028 = 393.829 BCM
The energy released by the 7.9 MM magnitude quake is given by the
empirically derived relation (See the reference to Turcotte et al in Ref4
below):
Log Es = 1.5x Earthquake magnitude +4.8 = 1.5*7.9 +4.8 =
16.65.
Thus Es = 4.46684E+16
The downward force F in Newtons exerted
by the dam content change of DBCM=393.829 BCM
was 393.829 x 10^12*9.81 which equals 3.86346E+15 N. The displacement d vertically
down is thus the energy released due to water moment Nm/Downward force N =Es/F
which is 4.46684E+16/3.86346E+15
or
d =11.56173765 m.
3.3 A one Megaton TNT equivalent nuclear explosion releases
energy of 4.184 x 10^15 Joules. Thus the 7.9 MM quake released energy equivalent
to a 10.68 megatonne TNT nuclear explosion (ref 4).
This is an update of the data given for the earthquake in Reference 1.
See Ref 3 in this connection. In this reference you only
have to replace “nuclear triggered” by World dams triggered! An extract:
“He said many villagers were working in their fields at the
time of the earthquake on May 12. The earth suddenly shook and shortly
afterwards, a thunderous sound came out of the mountain. Immediately after the
explosion, they then saw a huge hole form at the top of the mountain. Many
things were pushed out of this hole like toothpaste being squeezed out.
"Was it magma?" somebody asked. "No, those were concrete
blocks," said He. "The eruption lasted about three minutes," he
added.”
4.0 References
1. predicting earthquakes: The science of dams causing earthquakes and
climate change at
2. USGS:
Significant Earthquakesof the World at
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/significant/sig_2008.php
Updated information available now at:
Updated information available now at:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/browse/significant.php
3. Zhang
Haishan Times Staff - Jul 09, 2008. Earthquake [nuclear-triggered??] Destroyed
China's Largest Military Armory, Says Source. The Epoch Times.
4. Ramaswami Ashok Kumar. 2012. Glaring Lacuna in meeting water needs: The Nuclear Effect in Causing Earthquakes. Link:
http://glaringlacuna.blogspot.in/2012/01/nuclear-effect-in-causing-earthquakes.html
4. Ramaswami Ashok Kumar. 2012. Glaring Lacuna in meeting water needs: The Nuclear Effect in Causing Earthquakes. Link:
http://glaringlacuna.blogspot.in/2012/01/nuclear-effect-in-causing-earthquakes.html