christo-f Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 There was another EQ in China today. The southern province of Yunnan, which lies next to Sichuan where an EQ early last year killed around 90 000 people. Whilst this EQ doesn't seem to have had the devastating results of the Sichuan quake, there was something pretty wild about it. I remember reading that before/after the Sichuan quake there were strange cloud formations in the sky. Being the skeptic that I am I put this down to utter bullshit. Well this time people photographed the cloud patters. Please forgive if this is common knowledge as I am not a seismologist. Does anyone know of this stuff or have any stupid comments they'd like to make? How does what is about to happen or has just happened affect what is going on a few thousand feet up in the sky? I want answers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheoHuxtable.. Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 News to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RHDS Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 couldn't something have fallen over and started a fire and that just being smoke from said fire? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtydoses Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 deep brah! like mother earth n shit. woooohoooo!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deserfab Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 ke? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Flowsmith Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 CLOUD PEOPLE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christo-f Posted July 10, 2009 Author Share Posted July 10, 2009 Something have fallen over, what, like tht whole building in Shanghai the other week?! No, there were reports of these formations both before and after the Sichuan EQ as well. A the time I remember reading that the locals were pissed that no warning was sent out that an EQ may be coming when some (older, I think) people were pointing toward the sky and saying that it was an omen of disaster (which says to me that the people who saw these clouds have seen them before in connections with EQs. Sichuan lies on one of the world's most active fault areas and of course the Himalayas). So, no, no smoke here, all cloud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seph Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 Yes, I have also heard of said cloud pattern formation when earthquakes strike. I always thought it was just a superstition from my particular culture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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lord_casek Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 magnetism is neat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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TootsieRoller Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 Clouds are always doing weird shit. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ANGELDUST Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 earth fart 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
count chocula Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 it's N. Korea's fault Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
423894 Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 Dammit clouds. What are you doing. Stop being wierd. Your supposed to look like stuff not be wierd. Your clouds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
earl broclo ESQ Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 IT'S THE DECEPTICONS! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lil_spenty Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 had to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milk Grenades Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 magnetism is neat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
absolute.despair Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 earth fart earth farts are awesome... living on the west coast a lot of us are living on very active fault lines and have felt many quakes but have never witnessed an earth fart yet... some day tho. living where i do in the pacific northwest we can see one to four volcanos at a time depending on where you are at in the city. In 2004 I got to see Mt St. Helens erupt, it was pretty fucking cool. I think at first it looked like an earth fart... you be the judge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHAMWOW GUY Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 this shit is real its warfare..... the US has stations in Alaska that cause this shit... its caused by heating up portions of the ionisphere.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ILOTSMYBRAIN Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 Christo, weren't there also related reports of weird random rainbow sightings right before or after earthquakes as well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Dose Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 THE GOVERNMENT IS FUCKING UP OUR CLOUDS! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mainframe Posted July 12, 2009 Share Posted July 12, 2009 I saw clouds a lot like this when I was trippin on mushroms on a beach in san luis obispo...I couldn't figure out whether I was hallucinating or not, so I took some pictures and sure enough it wasn't the drugs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a/s/l? Posted July 12, 2009 Share Posted July 12, 2009 I couldn't figure out whether I was hallucinating or not[/size], so I took some pictures and sure enough it wasn't the drugs. facepalm.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christo-f Posted July 12, 2009 Author Share Posted July 12, 2009 Christo, weren't there also related reports of weird random rainbow sightings right before or after earthquakes as well? Quite possibly could have been but I don't recall reading it myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veintiocho Posted July 12, 2009 Share Posted July 12, 2009 I googled "cloud formations and earthquakes", and this came up: Curious cloud formations linked to quakes CAN unusual clouds signal the possibility of an impending earthquake? That's the question being asked following the discovery of distinctive cloud formations above an active fault in Iran before each of two large earthquakes occurred. Geophysicists Guangmeng Guo and Bin Wang of Nanyang Normal University in Henan, China, noticed a gap in the clouds in satellite images from December 2004 that precisely matched the location of the main fault in southern Iran. It stretched for hundreds of kilometres, was visible for several hours and remained in the same place, although the clouds around it were moving. At the same time, thermal images of the ground showed that the temperature was higher along the fault. Sixty-nine days later, on 22 February 2005, an earthquake of magnitude 6.4 hit the area, killing more than 600 people. In December 2005, a similar formation again appeared in the clouds for a few hours. Sixty-four days later, an earthquake of magnitude 6 shook the region (International Journal of Remote Sensing, vol 29, p 1921). Guo and Wang suggest that an eruption of hot gases from inside the fault could have caused water in the clouds to evaporate. Another idea is that ionisation may be involved: Friedemann Freund at the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, recently demonstrated that when rocks are squeezed, positively charged ions form in the air above. The trouble is that ions usually help to form clouds, not dissipate them. The authors say that if recognisable cloud formations precede large quakes, they could be used for prediction, but other seismologists are sceptical. "There is no physical model that explains why something would suddenly occur two months before an earthquake, and then shut off and not occur again," says Mike Blanpied of the US Geological Survey's Earthquake Hazards Program. pretty interesting, I never heard of this before this thread. There's also a Cloud Appreciation Society, I think I might join. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRUNKEN-ASSHOLE-ONER Posted July 12, 2009 Share Posted July 12, 2009 Maybe it's God showing his displeasure with the chinks flooding the world with their cheep exports. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the graff giraffe Posted July 12, 2009 Share Posted July 12, 2009 Yes, I have also heard of said cloud pattern formation when earthquakes strike. I always thought it was just a superstition from my particular culture. whooooooooaaaa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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