Can 200,000 Women Cause a Boobquake? 27
An anonymous reader writes "Purdue Senior Jennifer McCreight asked 30 of her friends to dress immodestly Monday to test a claim by an Iranian cleric that immodest women cause earthquakes. Now, over 200,000 women have joined the cause."
Yes (Score:3, Insightful)
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Not statistically relevant. See analysis at her site.
is it just me or is there really an increase (Score:2)
Better reporting and more people (Score:3, Insightful)
I seem to recall that the 'increase' is caused by better reporting and a greater number of people that are affected by quakes. Today, with the Internet, an otherwise minor 4.0 in an 'earthquake free' area can be reported world wide in minutes
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Let me ask you this, with a greater sharing of information and accuracy in detecting quakes how would we notice a genuine increase?
You see the quake question needs to be examined without the specter of religious interpretation hovering over it. With induced seismicity and several well known man-made quakes caused by buildings, dams, oil wells, etc... it is indeed a fact that there's more quakes in certain areas because of our own doing.
To simply say 'There's no increase' just to shut up the religious out t
Source data search (Score:2)
We would have to go to the source data, as mentioned in the parent posting, to be absolutely sure. Even then, chances are that the data would only be useful for identifying a change in frequency of large earthquakes.
The following link to a USGS site provides some support to my comment: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/year/eqstats.php [usgs.gov]
It mentions that several million earthquakes hit each year, but most go undetected because they hit remote areas or are of small magnitude. It also mentions
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http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/year/eqstats.php [usgs.gov]
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/year/graphs.php [usgs.gov]
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With the advent of the internet, you can essentially report earthquakes world-wide rather quickly. I believe there was an XKCD comic that demonstrated if someone posted on twitter about an earthquake as fast as they could as soon as they felt it, people more than 100km out might read the tweet a few moments before it hits them. While not really practical as an alarm system, it shows the efficiency of the net, meaning that international support teams can be notified in minutes as opposed to multiple hours, o
200,000? Try just one. (Score:2)
Yo mamma so fat she causes a boobquake whenever she gets out of bed.
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That's not a boobquake, that's a flapquake. Quite different. Boobquakes are enjoyable.
Rigor (Score:2, Funny)
I think they should go for statistical rigorousness with this one. You need a large sample size to invoke the "Law of Large Numbers." I am all in favor of additional boobquake days to help formulate a theory.
6.5? Not bad, not bad at all. (Score:2, Informative)
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Southeast_Taiwan_earthquake [wikipedia.org]:
A 6.5 magnitude earthquake occurred on April 26, 2010 in the sea Southeast of Taiwan.
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This calls for a new Buddhist Koan (Score:4, Funny)
This is research (Score:1)
- Dan.
I'm not sure, but... (Score:2)
it would definitely rock *my* world. :)
Pictures? (Score:2)
Where are the pictures of this scientifically interesting event?
Her Analysis of the Results (Score:2)
The originator of Boobquake, collected the results and posted an analysis on the Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/apr/29/boobquake-earthquake-immodest-dress-iran# [guardian.co.uk]
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You can't convince them that way (Score:2)
Every time a bunch of girls do this, they'll just get blamed for the NEXT earthquake wherever it is.