Just took this screengrab of the area surrounding Rome following the scare story that the current alignment of planets (Meaningless apart from it being nice to see a tidy solar system) might cause a large earthquake near Rome. Well, according to all the online resources, no earthquake. So those who left the city and headed for the hills may have been a tad ill advised. Although heading for the hills might have been a teensy error of judgement, considering where the last largish quake occurred. My annotation.
Hi ho, gotta go. Duty calls.
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That quake, Bill, is only a few miles from the home of a Spanish girl I know. It's been a bit freaky for them.
Planetary alignments? This is another version of the oh-noes-the-Moon-is-coming-to-get-us-we're-going-to-be-quaked-to-death crap that was going to kill us all recently.
Face it; even the combined effects of planets in complete alignment along the plane of the elliptic wouldn't cause one quake more or less. The forces involved are too small by several orders of magnitude. If the planetary trigger theory that sent a fifth of Romans scuttling for cover held any water, surely an uptick in activity should be globally obvious.
If the theory had any real element of truth, then the effects should be obvious in even short term tremor activity plots, like from the Icelandic Met Offices site, here. Note that some of the activity peaks occur around the 7th, but there's no specific trend.
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That quake, Bill, is only a few miles from the home of a Spanish girl I know. It's been a bit freaky for them.
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