Earthquakes and Volcanoes happen all the time. Right? The Earth is so big and one quake in Japan, or even two, are not related to a quake in Ecuador, right? Seismic shaking near but not AT a volcano is mere coincidence. The observation of a volcano which is venting steam stopping for a few hours after a large nearby earthquake then resuming is nothing to be concerned about. At least this is what the USGS and several highly regarded academics are wont to say.
This is
precisely what those people had to say after the Ecuador earthquake on April
16, 2016. Their contention is the distance between Japan and South America is
too great for the forces of one side to cause the other is far too great and
the possibilities so remote as to be mere coincidence.
One man who
has been watching the USGS earthquake feed for years has observes many
relationships among the seemingly isolated seismic events around the world. Dutchsinse
has been highly criticized for reporting his observations and posting his
research "as it develops." The academics on the other hand spend
their time collecting the data and holding it until they have a publishable
body of evidence and a peer reviewed paper which represents their career work.
They cannot afford to be wrong nor ever present a conclusion which doesn't prove
out to be completely true. However, that is what happens on a regular basis.
The attitude
of NIH (not invented here) prevails in academia as well as in industries where
the companies don't appreciate someone else telling them their business – hence
the Edsel automobile. Dutchsinse is in direct competition with men and women
who have staked their entire research careers on the hypothesis they first
propose then go on to prove by selecting evidence which supports it and
rejecting evidence which does not. Dutchsinse publishes the data and his interpretations for the public at large to "peer review." His learned watch list is not not prophesy nor sensationalism like many conspiracy websites. He has developed and expanded on concepts which explain what is observed by others while not running against other people's observations and research.
John Tuzo Wilson a Canadian geophysicist and
geologist was instrumental in the development of the concept of Plate-tectonics
and continental drift. While he as an adult was publishing "Cabot Fault, An Appalachian Equivalent of
the San Andreas and Great Glen Faults and some Implications for Continental
Displacement" in
1962, I as a 5th grader was telling my geography teacher that all the
continents seemed to me to have been fit together. I even cut up a flat map to
show what I meant. She told me it was impossible because God made the Earth the
way it was. I was ridiculed and dismissed. My parents confronted her and only
got the satisfaction of having gone through the exercise of trying. She had
2000 years of faith on HER side. I had no academic backup to "my
theory" because I was only 11 years old and had not read any of the university
papers. A note of satisfaction comes from the fact that people such as J.
Wilson were similarly chastised by their learned peers in the early days of
shedding light on how the continents got to be where they were and how they
looked.
The assertions of there being only mere coincidence between earthquakes
taking place on opposites sides of the Pacific is short sighted and dangerous. While
the proximity in time of large quakes in undeniable, their proximity of cause
is far less evident. There certainly is some cause and effect relationship even
if not significant enough for academics to see and measure. The denial of such
cause and effect relationships neglects the fact that both are caused by the
SAME cause, i.e. tectonic forces in the crust and asthenosphere. Even if there
is zero cause and effect, there is a common cause. The Japan and Ecuador
locations were merely the latest "weakest" spots to rupture.
There are undeniable forces inside the Earth and we need to be watching
for their evidence without the veil of preconception. To not be observant and act
to minimize the peril to people invites the
Principle of Imminent Collapse where it only takes a Nudge to make
the system fail.
