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Greek South Mid- West Earthquake

Hamid Sadeghipour

                                                                               05.11.2009

I received an alert from EMSC about earthquake of south mid-west of Greece of magnitude 5.9. I believe many countries have developed several systems to monitor earthquakes like Tomography offered by some Greek institute. When you empty the air from a balloon there is no more pressure inside it. It is the same for earthquakes. We have a silence and calm before a storm and then storm. We have some quiet days before an earthquake and after release of the energy again the calm. One of the sources of activity is the same as the sun activity usually happening in mid-latitude (from Greece to Sichuan-Gansu China). Some others are hot spots. The magnitude depends on permeability of the layers magma comes up through. Another aspect is the geology of the region: “the geology of the Mediterranean involves the break up and the collision of the African and Eurasian tectonic plates”( from internet). There is a fractal aspect in earthquakes. The last earthquake in south mid-west of Greece is on a curve like a hearth passing from Hindu-Kush area. Again the shape of the earthquakes of last week in Greek area is like a hearth. Only the north east of Greek area is empty from earthquakes. Why? You saw certainly in movies comedy or action, some one pull a narrow carpet from under the foot of another and causes to make him fall. As we had broken up in Mediterranean basin, some part has fallen down to north east. It caused the Greek area become unbalanced in the south and becomes a plateau. The weight of this fallen part covered the region and pushed down the magma, why this region is colder than southern part and magma has more trouble to come up. But it comes up easier in the south as it was pushed in the north east of the region. The solution to Greek earthquakes is to drill wells or a well deep in the south of Istanbul region and control the heat of this well and even produce carefully electricity if necessary. I think I won’t write on EMSC alert unless really necessary.