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Hopes
10-01-2006, 22:30
Hi there all, i just wanted to share with my recent thoughts that were going around in my head, which even i think is totally silly, but anyway this is what i was thinking today.

Why is it that whenever there is an earthquake anyhere in the world i can't feel it, i mean for example i stay in fife in scotland and the earthquakes which just occured last year, i couldn't feel them at all, you'd think everyone would feel something even if they do stay hundreds of miles away.

Think of it this way, today i told my mother to sit on her sofa at one end while i stood at the other end and i lifted it up slightly and shook it, which she felt me moving it as she was sitting on it obviously, so why don't we feel a tremor when an earthquake happens because we are all part of the same world, am i just losing the plot or is there a simple explanation to my weird thoughts, please enlighten me someone.
Behemoth
10-01-2006, 22:32
The majority of earthquakes are cause when two parts of the earth's crust grind next to each other along a fault line. You wouldn't feel it on a different continent because you aren't on the same piece of land that is moving.
Hopes
10-01-2006, 22:37
I still don't get it really. And why is there numbers beneath you're post?
Behemoth
10-01-2006, 22:41
More info on earthquakes here: http://science.howstuffworks.com/earthquake.htm

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Abi
11-01-2006, 16:35
Plus the plates are so huge, that you wouldn't feel it on the other side. E.g. if your in a huge building, like a school or something, and someone stamps their feet, then people on the other side of the building cant feel it, can they? THe vibrations that you feel just fade and fade, untill they die anyway completly.
di marco
11-01-2006, 19:43
when we did about earthquakes in geography the teacher said something about the vibrations not being able to go through some parts of the earth so thats why they arent felt at other places in the world
Abi
11-01-2006, 19:51
Oh yeah, and Seismic waves... theres a reason because of those, but dont ask me what it is. I'd have actually had to of listened to know that.
Katy
11-01-2006, 20:32
i loved the idea of the fact that animals could sense when the earthquake was coming i did earthquakes as part of my GCSE course. I remember on in Manchester at the time of the commenwealth games they are very rare and you could hardly feel it. Its all to do with faults lines, we are lucky as we are not near any major ones or plate boundries.
di marco
11-01-2006, 20:46
yeh i know, animals are so clever with that sort of thing, it really amazes me!