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AmericanPride
07-09-2008, 02:53 AM
Something to note: http://www.analyst-network.com/article.php?art_id=2239

Natural or artificial?

Jedburgh
07-09-2008, 03:32 AM
Something to note: http://www.analyst-network.com/article.php?art_id=2239

Natural or artificial?
Artificial. As in the author of the article. Smith has about as much credibility as WND or NEIN.

Lebanon ain't California, but earthquakes aren't new there either. The last big one back in '56 destroyed a big part of the old city of Sidon. There was a 4.2 quake in Tyre earlier this year, with a couple of aftershocks that were felt as far as Bint Jbeil near the Israeli border. It is not unreasonable for there to be occasional smaller quakes in the region that barely register. Then combine that with Smith's tendency to fabricate for effect, and the WCCR (http://www.cedarsrevolution.net/jtphp/)'s known strong biases and you have the making of a sensational story.

AmericanPride
07-09-2008, 03:52 AM
Artificial. As in the author of the article. Smith has about as much credibility as WND or NEIN.

Lebanon ain't California, but earthquakes aren't new there either. The last big one back in '56 destroyed a big part of the old city of Sidon. There was a 4.2 quake in Tyre earlier this year, with a couple of aftershocks that were felt as far as Bint Jbeil near the Israeli border. It is not unreasonable for there to be occasional smaller quakes in the region that barely register. Then combine that with Smith's tendency to fabricate for effect, and the WCCR (http://www.cedarsrevolution.net/jtphp/)'s known strong biases and you have the making of a sensational story.

Interesting. Thanks for the insight.

William F. Owen
07-09-2008, 05:25 AM
Lebanon ain't California, but earthquakes aren't new there either. The last big one back in '56 destroyed a big part of the old city of Sidon. There was a 4.2 quake in Tyre earlier this year, with a couple of aftershocks that were felt as far as Bint Jbeil near the Israeli border.

....and in Israel and as far south Tel-Aviv. Earth quakes/tremors are at least monthly occurrences. The whole region lies on the rift valley fault. So when your wife says she "felt the earth move," she probably did and you were probably asleep!

Tom Odom
07-09-2008, 01:05 PM
....and in Israel and as far south Tel-Aviv. Earth quakes/tremors are at least monthly occurrences. The whole region lies on the rift valley fault. So when your wife says she "felt the earth move," she probably did and you were probably asleep!

Absolutely and it runs all the way down to the house on Lake Kivu where Stan and I lived in the Goma Refugee Festival of 1994.

I rode out several quakes as a UN observer in southern Lebanon, especially at OP Khiam.

Tom

Entropy
07-09-2008, 03:11 PM
And here I thought it was because of our new earthquake weapon! (http://www.bariumblues.com/bertell_reveals_many_new_weapons.htm) :D

Tom Odom
07-09-2008, 04:19 PM
And here I thought it was because of our new earthquake weapon! (http://www.bariumblues.com/bertell_reveals_many_new_weapons.htm) :D

SHHHHHhhhhh! Don't tell anyone! :D

PS

My wife tells me I am an earthquake machine after a hefty bowl of Texas chili

The Lebanese version would be fool mudammas (fava beans)