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Earth Day 2012: The Earth is Grumbling.
EarthQuake & Volcano Update for April 22nd, And It Isn't Good - UpdatedOpEd News
http://www.opednews.com/Diary/EarthQuake--Volcano-Updat-by-William-Cormier-120422-909.html
....snip...... and the people of Mexico are praying the Popocatepetl volcano will not experience a major eruption, as millions of people live within a 60 mile radius of the volcano.
Gheorghe Marmureanu--from Romania's National Institute of Earth Physics--says 39 quakes had hit the globe within two days.The series started with two massive quakes in Indonesia measuring 8.6 and 8.2 on the Richter scale rapidly followed within hours by three more in Mexico only slightly smaller. "There is no doubt that something is seriously wrong. There have been too many strong earthquakes," said Marmureanu.
Quake Expert: Earth Cracking Up
croatiantimes.com
A leading earthquake scientist has warned that the planet could be cracking up after a series of massive quakes in just 48 hours.
Expert Gheorghe Marmureanu - from Romania's National Institute of Earth Physics - says 39 quakes had hit the globe within two days.
The series started with two massive quakes in Indonesia measuring 8.6 and 8.2 on the Richter scale rapidly followed by three more only slightly smaller in Mexico within hours.
"There is no doubt that something is seriously wrong. There have been too many strong earthquakes," said Marmureanu.
He added: "The quakes are a surprise that cannot be easily explained by current scientific knowledge. With the Indonesian quake for example, statistically, there should be one big earthquake in this part of Asia every 500 years. However, since 2004, there were already three quakes with a magnitude of over 8, which is not normal.
croatiantimes.com
A leading earthquake scientist has warned that the planet could be cracking up after a series of massive quakes in just 48 hours.
Expert Gheorghe Marmureanu - from Romania's National Institute of Earth Physics - says 39 quakes had hit the globe within two days.
The series started with two massive quakes in Indonesia measuring 8.6 and 8.2 on the Richter scale rapidly followed by three more only slightly smaller in Mexico within hours.
"There is no doubt that something is seriously wrong. There have been too many strong earthquakes," said Marmureanu.
He added: "The quakes are a surprise that cannot be easily explained by current scientific knowledge. With the Indonesian quake for example, statistically, there should be one big earthquake in this part of Asia every 500 years. However, since 2004, there were already three quakes with a magnitude of over 8, which is not normal.
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"The continuous activity in the Cascadia Subduction Zone" Umm, what activity? I watch it constantly (cause I live here) and we've had a few tiny quakes off the coast, nothing out of the ordinary 
second: link is croationtimes, another version of the Daily Fail...
third. I can't find any scholarly links for "Gheorghe Marmureanu" in english, only links to 2012'er boards.
Lily, my Romanian friend, will be over today and I'll ask her to help me track this guy down and see if he's legit, and If he actually said this. My guess is a bad translation and some major hyperbole.
