Michael Cash wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:48:26 +0900, CL <flothru@yahoo.com> brought
> down from the Mount tablets inscribed:
> 
> 
>>B Robson wrote:
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>>>tm wrote:
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>>>>B Robson wrote:
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>>>>>tm wrote:
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>>>>>>B Robson wrote:
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>>>>>>>tm wrote:
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>>>>>>>>B Robson wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>tm wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>>B Robson wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>>>tm wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>>>>B Robson wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>Volcanoes cause earthquakes? 
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>Yes.
>>>>>>>>>>>>google-  volcano-tectonic earthquake
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>Which volcano caused the recent earthquake off Sendai?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>None. What's your point?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>How many earthquakes were caused by volcanoes?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Lazy shit. Do your own math. Subtract the number that weren't from 
>>>>>>>>the total and you'll know.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>So you don't know that this is correct.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>"Japan is a country on volcanic land - most unsuitable for 
>>>>>>>urbanization. This makes the land very fertile but also produces 
>>>>>>>*many* earthquakes."
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Depends on how one defines "many", doesn't it?
>>>>>
>>>>>You can also define 1=2, but that's not going to help you either.
>>>>
>>>>Now you are just being silly.
>>>
>>>A lot less silly than you. You know full well, or at least should know, 
>>>that volcanoes are not responsible for many earthquakes in Japan.
>>
>>Maybe you're looking in the wrong place.  Try Izu-Oshima and 
>>Miyakejima's volcanic eruptions and the three years of daily earthquakes 
>>in Ito and the surrounding areas.
> 
> 
> Excuse an ignorant question, but does the volcanic activity cause the
> earthquakes? Or do the earthquakes cause the volcanic activity? Or is
> there causal link either way?
> 

Isn't the real culprit LIQUID HOT MAGMA?

-- 
Curt Fischer