guil's blog

(Estado de Preparación para los Terremotos de Managua...)

The Haiti 7.0 earthquake (12 January 2010 16:53) isn't front-page news anymore and the Nicaraguan newspapers already stopped writing about the next Managua earthquake. It is absolutely clear that the citizens of Port au Prince weren't prepared at all. Port au Prince hasn't been struck by an earthquake since 1770. Never the less this earthquake was predicted by a French team in 2007! In a dramatic example of the effectiveness of GPS technology, a team of Purdue University researchers led by geophysics professor Eric Calais accurately predicted that an earthquake would take place in Haiti very very soon, and that the quake would be greater than 7.0 magnitude. The Purdue team has studied the Enriquillo and Septentrional faults in Haiti and the Dominican Republic that caused the Haitian quake since the late 1990s. You can find this study here. The Purdue study was funded by the National Science Foundation and it maintains 30 GPS precision monitoring stations in the Caribbean, that are measuring the velocity of tectonic plates.

I was going to comment on Sandinog's topic 15423. Halfway, I decided to make it my own Blog, because it went slightly off topic and discussions in the Political forum on NL tend to mention Chávez a lot anyway. So here is my opinion on Chávez with some prologue.