sean@........... wrote:

> Re: "Goodbye cruel ..."; of course we all know that seismographs attract
> earthquakes like lightning rods, so your chance of your wallet being
> swallowed by a fissure increases exponentially with your success at
> amateur seismology. (I have actually encountered this quake attraction
> thinking in trying to permit telemetry station sites in the Ozarks.)

I have talked to my apartment manager in Santa Monica about setting up
a seismograph (because it would require minor alteration of their
property) and he said it would be great.  He did, however, want some
assurance that the thing wouldn't attract earthquakes!


John Hernlund
Department of Earth and Space Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles
hernlund@............

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