2018 likely to see more big earthquakes

By Pratch Rujivanarom 
The Nation

 

 

Big earthquakes are predicted to occur more frequently this year, a seismologist has cautioned.

 

The prominent seismologist from Prince of Songkhla University, Paiboon Nuannin, said this after studying records of big earthquakes - those larger than magnitude 7 - around the world during 2017.

 

“From the records, we can see that there were only seven big earthquakes during 2017, which is only half of average of 15 big earthquakes per year,” Paiboon said.

 

“From earthquake statistics, a year with less frequent big earthquakes will normally be followed by a year with more frequent big earthquakes, so it is possible that there will be more earthquakes this year.”

 

Less frequent big earthquakes indicated that the stress in the Earth’s fault lines was not intense enough to create strong earthquakes. But, as time passes, the stress in a fault line accumulates until it reaches breaking point and triggers a big earthquake.

 

However, Paiboon urged Thai people not to be too concerned about this possibility, as Thailand is situated in a relatively safe location away from the subduction zones at the meeting of tectonic plates where big quakes most frequently occur.

 

He added that there was still no precise scientific earthquake prediction method, just speculation derived from statistics.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30335261

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-01-03

I'm quaking in ma boots

Who is to blame for this?

□ Trump

□ Putin

□ Kim

□ All of the above

This news is as good as the upcoming junta prediction: there will be no floods during the next monsoon season. Congrats for your 5 minutes of fame Khun Paiboon Nuannin!

Edited January 3, 20188 yr by Lupatria

Such wisdom coming from the font of all knowledge namely a Thai university who actually are relying on the university of Colorado who predicted this also due to the slower rotation of the earth during this year.

6 hours ago, webfact said:

e added that there was still no precise scientific earthquake prediction method, just speculation derived from statistics.

 

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6 hours ago, Ralf61 said:

Who is to blame for this?

□ Trump

□ Putin

□ Kim

□ All of the above

You left out the Dubai Bogeyman ..

7 hours ago, Ralf61 said:

Who is to blame for this?

□ Trump

□ Putin

□ Kim

□ All of the above

Trump is responsible but for sure they will blame it on Putin, Kim and Ali Chamene'i

as Osama isn't available any longer.

Some places for fortunate earthquakes would be right under the feet of the

North Korean leader, the Syrian leader, and even right under Robert Mugabi,

and a few others like them.

Geezer

An earthquake in Thailand might provide a convenient excuse to delay an election ?

 

And Yunnan or Myanmar or the Nicobar Islands is close-enough, to count, no ?

Now we have Astrology guru and now an earth quake guru 

if these two bang their heads together maybe they can predict

the exact time,  the out of control  Chinese space station will start to burn up.

 

23 hours ago, webfact said:

“From earthquake statistics, a year with less frequent big earthquakes will normally be followed by a year with more frequent big earthquakes, so it is possible that there will be more earthquakes this year.”

And it's quotes like this that make him a prominent seismologist. 

 

I wonder how many Thai seismologists there actually are?

5 hours ago, Stargrazer9889 said:

Some places for fortunate earthquakes would be right under the feet of the

North Korean leader, the Syrian leader, and even right under Robert Mugabi,

and a few others like them.

Geezer

And under the whole Washington swamp as well.

Blame the Kardashians and their huge butts... Definitely must affect earth balance 

 

But that is just speculation, derived from  observation :)

Edited January 4, 20188 yr by CantSpell