...The Boxing Day Tsunami of Christmas 2004
                (...Plate Tectonics - earthquakes and tsunamis...)

This page is dedicated to the memory of those  tens of thousands of  families around the Indian Ocean killed by the Sumatra earthquake and the resulting tsunami of Boxing Day, the 26th December 2004,  who have underscored with tragic loss of life the blindness of geological consensus in western nations which for decades has refused to recognise the connection between earthquakes and the Earth's rotation in generating such catastrophies.  On account of this deficit, the connection between earthquakes and the global structures that localise them  have been and continue to be, in large part fundamentally misconstrued.

Fig.1   Synopsis of continental rupture and growth of the ocean floors reflected in the change in the Earth's spin through geological time.   Grey band = mountain belts distended around the Pacific rim; yellow band = lower crustal level distension; grey lines are lines of major apparent 'torsional' displacements (but are largely normal growth faults); finer red lines are transform faults (which are also growth faults).    The individual major elements and movement pictures are described on the site.

 

From the ambital enlargement of the Earth to the trace of structures on the ocean floors,  the first-order deformation of the planet manifest in the generation of earthquakes is related to its spin.  This simple fact is ignored by geologists and geophysicists, who hubristically deny any association and instead use a working geological  model called Plate Tectonics to explain earthquake distribution.

This model, constructed purely on hypothetical principles of convection according to buoyancy and flotation and governing the internal workings of the planet, flies in the face of the obvious that any lay-person can see  - that the continental crust has been distended by the growth of the ocean floors, and that this growth is inscribed by the spin of the planet in the structures known as transform faults.    Views of the Earth from space have spectacularly underscored this spin-symmetry of deformation, yet despite the billions of dollars expended in space exploration and the movement picture being clearly defined in satellite measurement of small movements (image below), as well as the interpretation outlined on this site, scientists  continue to conveniently ignore the obvious pairing of Earth spin and mantle growth and the effect this has in generating earthquakes and killer tsunamis, because through its consequence of Earth expansion  it implies the nemesis of plate tectonics which feeds the lifeblood of  consensus of the earth sciences, and because too there are unplatable implications in physics: there is no known way within current consensus whereby the Earth may enlarge to the extent apparent.
 

Plate tectonics  implies it,  gps movements show it, and aspects of the ocean floors define it.  You might think there would be some scientists who would regard this connection between earthquakes and the Earth's spin as an alternative framework to plate tectonics in which to explore the potential  for earthquake prediction given the huge loss of life that can occur.     But no (however see), ..  despite possible private agreement, when  observations are made that imply fatal errors in consensus, offical scientific consensus closes ranks faster than thieves.  The loudest response by far is not to examine and discuss the evidence, but to proclaim "irrelevance" in the absence of  'peer review' and consensus,  and to otherwise deny,  ignore, and heap ad hominems on the bearer of new data and interpretations of it.

It is not possible to address this connection within the milieu of consensus.  It is only by a juxtaposition such as here, of the recent tragic loss of life caused by the massive tsunami around the Indian Ocean with the hubristic assertions of Earth scientists that current understanding is essentially correct, that a rise in the conscience of consensus might be made  whereby possible alternatives may be explored and a better understanding might transpire.

Let us pray

...that they waken up, and put the science, if not the concerns of the people in the regions at risk of tsunamis, ahead of their career interest.

Fig.2.  Crustal movements according to GPS measurements (red arrows).  White lines are major movements described on this site; red lines are transforms.

 

This show is not over till the whole circus of fat ladies promoting plate tectonics sings (in unison):-