UnSubRocky wrote on Feb 8^th, 2023 at 3:56pm:


I think you need to some geological research.
I'm not saying its 'absolute', but it 'may' be a contributing factor. Considering Oil (Decomposed life) has been accumulating since the dawn of life which, as you might know - is a very very very very long time ago (Apes and Humans are just a blink of an eye in the time frame).
The world itself has always been in a constant state of Evolution - even geologically.
Do you even know why India moved so fast from the connection with the southern Gondwanic lands to crash into Asia?
When dramatic changes happen like the extraction of hundreds of millions of years of accumulated oil where parts of the crust are suddenly drained dry and empty - there is ALWAYS side effects and repercussions.

You know, there can always be more than one right answer and contributing factor. Only a moron (like Smith) would think there is only one always.

Only a fool would dismiss such a possibility of cause and effect. Personally, I really wouldn't be surprised in the least.

Oil has been around since the Archean age through the Ediacaran and on. Even if Humans have been extracting just 20% so far to make monoxide into the atmosphere. I'm sure it does have an 'effect' somewhere, sometime.

Baronvonrort wrote on Feb 8^th, 2023 at 6:03pm:

Seeing the pictures - those buildings would have each had hundreds of people in them. Quite a mass slaughter to be honest. There has got to be a real change in high rise building structures. Very sad to see such immense destruction and of lives lost without a chance of escape to survive.

Jasin wrote on Feb 8^th, 2023 at 8:51pm:


Jasin, I am a geography major from my studies at university. One of the subjects I studied was geology, weather patterns, and physical forms of tectonic plates. That does not make me an expert by any manner. And I had not gone on to do an honours, masters, or PhD on the topic. And the subject I studied in 1997 is now a 26 year old hazy memory. However, even a non-student of the topic of physical transformation of plate tectonics should be able to look up the topic in respectable sources and find out for themselves how plate tectonics work.

Even google images do not show pictures and diagrams of cross sections of the Earth with a floating layer of oil determining continental drift. They are all diagrams of the continental shelf atop molten rock. It is very hot at the centre of the Earth. You find that this causes a heating of the mantle that creates this conveyor belt of molten rock. Over time, pressure builds up and the magma created makes its way to the surface. Otherwise, this magma/molten rock is helping to shift plate tectonics in whatever direction, creating varying degrees of earthquakes.

There is not enough oil in the Earth that could come close to match the amount of molten rock. And the oil that is around is in the ground of the continental shelf.... sitting idle... having no effect on that big blob of molten rock slowly shifting the continental shelf. The oil is in the ground. Not under the continents. But accessible to the people drilling for the oil.

It's pretty obvious from aerial shots which buildings were not designed
for earthquake loadings—and probably signed off by shonky building
surveyors for a brown paper bag of lira.



In earthquake zones, structures—particularly reinforced concrete—need
to be effectively overdesigned;  the collapsed multi-story buildings were
not apparently.

I'd be guessing there'll be a few Turkish and Syrian civil engineers looking
over their shoulders in the days to come.

So…. Removing billions of barrels of thick crude gluggy oil from beneath the earth surely must be leaving gaps to make earth move and them plates move too. It’s a sort of displacement.
But what would I know. I’m just seeing it for what it is.
This earth… we keep taking and taking….

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Nothing to do with plate tectonics it's women with loose morals who are to blame for this.

Sophia wrote on Feb 9^th, 2023 at 8:41pm:


Alfred Wegener gets the credit for continental drift around 1912.

He was mocked and ridiculed by mainstream science because he couldn't give a mechanism to how this happened.

Around  1967 they realised he was right and pulped every geology textbook to embrace plate tectonics. Alfred died about 40 years before this happened.

Sinkholes are more of a worry for us we aren't on any fault lines.

Sophia wrote on Feb 9^th, 2023 at 9:41pm:

Yes - that's an awesome and very popular dive destination.