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| + | An '''earthquake''' is the sudden movement or trembling of the Earth's tectonic plates, that creates the shakes of the ground. This shaking can destroy buildings and break the Earth's surface. A sudden shake under water can cause [[tsunamis]]. | ||
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| + | May 1977 the UN adopted ENMOD, the “Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques”. Since that time, interventions to change the weather or geological reactions such as artificially induce earthquakes are forbidden. The United States is a signatory.<ref>https://treaties.un.org/Pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=IND&mtdsg_no=XXVI-1&chapter=26&clang=_enm</ref> | ||
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| + | ==Project Plowshare== | ||
| + | [[Project Plowshare]] was the overall [[United States]] program for the development of techniques to use nuclear explosives for peaceful construction purposes. The [[Soviet Union]] had a similar program. Successful demonstrations of non-combat uses for nuclear explosives include rock blasting and engineering projects.<ref>https://www.osti.gov/opennet/reports/plowshar.pdf</ref> | ||
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| + | ===The Valdivia earthquake=== | ||
| + | On May 22, 1960, the most powerful earthquake in recorded history — magnitude 9.5 — struck southern [[Chile]]. The rupture zone stretched from estimates ranging from 500 kilometers (311 miles) to almost 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) along the country’s coast, killing 2000. <ref>https://www.nationalgeographic.org/thisday/may22/valdivia-earthquake-strikes-chile/</ref> There is mention that this was caused by a secret nuclear explosion.<ref>https://www.gabyweber.com/dwnld/artikel/plowshareenglisch.pdf</ref> | ||
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| + | ==Tectonic weapons== | ||
| + | A '''tectonic weapon''' is a hypothetical device or system which could create [[earthquake]]s, [[volcano]]es, or other seismic events in specified locations by interfering with the Earth's natural geological processes. It was defined in 1992 by Aleksey Vsevolodovich Nikolayev, corresponding member [[Russian Academy of Sciences]]: "A tectonic or seismic weapon would be the use of the accumulated tectonic energy of the Earth's deeper layers to induce a destructive earthquake".<ref>[http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf 927N0104A Moscow ZNANIYE-Sila (in Russian) No. 1, Jan 92 p2-13, translated in JPRS Report on Science and Technology, October 1992]</ref> | ||
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An earthquake is the sudden movement or trembling of the Earth's tectonic plates, that creates the shakes of the ground. This shaking can destroy buildings and break the Earth's surface. A sudden shake under water can cause tsunamis.
May 1977 the UN adopted ENMOD, the “Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques”. Since that time, interventions to change the weather or geological reactions such as artificially induce earthquakes are forbidden. The United States is a signatory.[1]
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Project Plowshare was the overall United States program for the development of techniques to use nuclear explosives for peaceful construction purposes. The Soviet Union had a similar program. Successful demonstrations of non-combat uses for nuclear explosives include rock blasting and engineering projects.[2]
The Valdivia earthquake
On May 22, 1960, the most powerful earthquake in recorded history — magnitude 9.5 — struck southern Chile. The rupture zone stretched from estimates ranging from 500 kilometers (311 miles) to almost 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) along the country’s coast, killing 2000. [3] There is mention that this was caused by a secret nuclear explosion.[4]
Tectonic weapons
A tectonic weapon is a hypothetical device or system which could create earthquakes, volcanoes, or other seismic events in specified locations by interfering with the Earth's natural geological processes. It was defined in 1992 by Aleksey Vsevolodovich Nikolayev, corresponding member Russian Academy of Sciences: "A tectonic or seismic weapon would be the use of the accumulated tectonic energy of the Earth's deeper layers to induce a destructive earthquake".[5]
An example
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| Earthquake machine | A weapon of mass destruction which would trigger an earthquake |
References
- ↑ https://treaties.un.org/Pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=IND&mtdsg_no=XXVI-1&chapter=26&clang=_enm
- ↑ https://www.osti.gov/opennet/reports/plowshar.pdf
- ↑ https://www.nationalgeographic.org/thisday/may22/valdivia-earthquake-strikes-chile/
- ↑ https://www.gabyweber.com/dwnld/artikel/plowshareenglisch.pdf
- ↑ 927N0104A Moscow ZNANIYE-Sila (in Russian) No. 1, Jan 92 p2-13, translated in JPRS Report on Science and Technology, October 1992
