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2020-01-08 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Fred 2020-01-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [14 views ] Top
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Posted by Lex 2020-01-08 00:17|| 2020-01-08 00:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Halliburton Earthquake Division to the courtesy phone.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-01-08 00:48|| 2020-01-08 00:48|| Front Page Top

#3 What is a MOP on the Richter scale?

Posted by Glinter Jaique8353 2020-01-08 03:59|| 2020-01-08 03:59|| Front Page Top

#4 ^ A blastwave from a 14,000 Kg GBU-57 MOP or even an 8000 Kg 43 is theorized to produce localized seismic activity if it sets off at sufficient depth in an earthquake prone zone.

An 8,000 kg MOAB produced a tremor effect calculable to 4.6 on the Richter scale, in an even radius, but it doesn't dissipate like a quake, the falloff to zero is so tight, a seismograph reading is difficult. The Richter value has to be extrapolated from the amount of energy released. The 14,000 Kg MOP, your GBU 57A produces 46 Gigajoules of blast after penetrating 50-60 ft of reinforced concrete. That is just too much blast in a confined space.

Posted by Dron66046 2020-01-08 04:55|| 2020-01-08 04:55|| Front Page Top

#5 Such an 'event' might trigger natural tectonic activity if the occurrence area was prone to such, Dron.

Seismograph would record the whole thing, with the initial 'P' waves being of very short duration (single blast and all that) and the subsequent 'S' and 'Surface' waves registering as a normal earthquake due to the local geology shifting.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2020-01-08 08:23|| 2020-01-08 08:23|| Front Page Top

#6 I would suspect a MOP or the God rod, as it has not explosives and still rattles the globe.

Posted by 49 Pan 2020-01-08 12:13|| 2020-01-08 12:13|| Front Page Top

#7 Did Israel or whoever warn them an earthquake was coming?

Posted by jpal 2020-01-08 14:30|| 2020-01-08 14:30|| Front Page Top

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