Earthquake struck Chennai & Andaman, No casualties reported
Two earthquakes of magnitude 6.7 & 6.1 struck India’s Andaman & Nicobar Islands & some parts of Chennai on Friday. The epicentre of the earthquake was 115 kilometres southwest from capital Port Blair & 45 km below the sea. There are no reports of any damage & casualties. The earthquake occurred at 17:10 p.m.
Areas from the North Andaman to the Great Nicobar Island experienced the tremor sending people scurrying out of their homes. The Disaster management Control Room has said that the first tremor was felt at around 5:10 PM followed by the second one at 6:38 PM.
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Earthquake is caused due to the movement of the land is a myth. The most important thing that is missing in this view is that there is no explanation for why earthquake occurs in the centre of the land instead of the peripheral area.
Actually the land is rising in different places. This is the reason why earthquakes occur only in the central parts of the land.
To be specific, after an earthquake occurred on September 30th of 1993, in the village named Killari, it was found that the land had risen about three feet in height.
This shows that the rise of the land is the cause of the earthquake.
Earthquake is the effect of the rise of the land
On September 30th 1993, the earthquake that hit the village, killari, situated in central part of India resulted in the death of more than eight thousand people and raised the land surface about three feet high.
This elevation was seen in an area of around two kilometers.
Why did the earthquake occur?
The quake occurred only in killari, situated in central India and left two kilometers of land area raised. This proves that the earthquake occurred only due to the rise of the land.
Apart from this, the pictures taken by the satellite before the quake showed that the temperature of killari had also risen and the pictures taken after the quake showed it to be normal.
After the earthquake occurred, on the borders of Andhra and Karnataka white colored smoke emitted from the ground.
Why did the land rise? Why was the temperature more? Why did the land emit white colored smoke?
We know that the molten rock material called magma is found inside the earth as we have seen it coming out through volcanoes.
In the same way, when the molten rock, lava flows on the earth’s surface, we can see the condensed steam and other gases in the form of white colored smoke.
As the water and other hot gases are eliminated as steam, the molten rock cools down and turned in to rock.
In the same way when the molten rock inside the earth starts cooling, water and
Other hot gases come out in the form of white smoke. Due to this, the temperature of the land rises.
Moreover when the molten rock cools and as the water and hot gases get released, the rocky plates that are formed are of less thickness.
For example: water has a higher density and the ice cubes formed from it have a lower density and float on water.
Likewise, the molten rock material which has a higher density produces rocky plates which have a lower density and move above the level of the molten rock.
In the same way, when new plates are produced by the molten rock material, they start moving upwards there by pushing the plates which were already formed. On account of this movement, the edges of the plates rub against each other thereby causing earthquakes.
For example, in 1356 an earthquake occurred in the city Basel in Switzerland which is situated in central Europe .
In the same city, an organization which produces electricity using the heat from underground, drilled two holes of five meters each on the earth in the year 2006.
The project was to send cold water through the first hole which would be changed into steam using the heat of the molten rock and pushed out through the second hole and by rotating dynamos; this would be converted into electricity.
But, on the eighth day after the water was sent inside the earth, in the same place, the Richter scale recorded an earthquake with an intensity of 3.4.
Even if atom bombs are tested underground, earthquakes do not occur. How could the water which seeped inside produce an earthquake?
This clearly shows that the water which seeped inside the earth cooled the molten rock which in turn formed new plates that rose up and caused the earthquake.
Yours faithfully,
Scientist, g.ponmudi,
chennai.