Passion for an earthquake!

Studying earthquakes was a lifelong passion for me. May be it will be seconded only to my
eager to learn quantum mechanics. This is because I have never experienced such thing
called earthquake in my life since I first read about an earthquake through a newspaper 30
or 35 years ago.
For my amusement television broadcasting in national level started on 1981, and I watched
many documentaries related to Japanese experiences on earthquakes and how they face
that problem in reality equipped with technology. Our television network was a Japanese
donation, and of course we had very useful technical programs aired originated for Japan,
such NHK.
Pursuing knowledge of earthquakes was my most curious subject to investigate during my
time in the university too. We had classes on structural dynamics and gigantic collection of
books in the library on the subject. But I couldnt realize what really trigger an earthquake.
I thought may be its having some astronomical or gravitational impact from terrestrial
bodies, actually I thought the very closest mass hanging around our earth, the moon, has
most influence in triggering earthquakes. Most of the tectonics plates out of total 15 lies in
the middle third of the equator, and largest geotechnical connections are there too, and
proportion to the mass of each gravitational pull must be varied, and I thought this was
proportional to the surface area of each tectonic plate. So things moved so far, and all of a
sudden some researchers from University of Peradeniya had produce such a probabilistic
model which can predict earthquakes effectively using astronomical data, means to say the
impacts of movements of other planets relative to earth. I like this idea very much.
I was surprising when I heard that the inner core investigations related to earth is always
depended on measurements and observations resulting from an earthquake which is really
happening on earth surface. This made me so upset but its the reality. Some disasters
happening on surface will teach us lot about the inner core or the structure beneath the
surface which is invisible to naked eye; or where the earths core is located beyond our
practical limits of reaching to proximity for real investigations. I like this idea of measuring
reflections of waves properties to investigate the media it passes through in a spherical
planet. My most amusement, I like that idea of generating shadow zones of impact on
earths surface where the shear waves getting filtered in a liquid media boundary; the real
core of earth, in the form of molten metal or bursting gaseous materials.
Every disaster has taught us lessons; disasters made us here. If the supernovas didnt
blasted several billion years ago, heavy metal atoms will never create and of course we are
not here!
Unless the carbonic debris on surface squeezed by giant earthquakes making deposits of
vegetation in giant scale in deep layers of earth crust pressuring and heating for a long
time, we will never get used to petroleum!
I love earthquakes.

Dawson P [dawsonpree@gmail.com, 11th February 2015, (This was abstracted from my

research thesis introduction for the purpose of publication in www.Scribd.com to continue
my usage of referencing documents there.)