Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 05/03/2011 - 10:45
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Glacial Movement and Seismicity

When the Glacier moves it creates small earthquakes. How small are they and can you feel them?

Tue, 05/03/2011 - 12:02

Michael Lampert

great question. think physics. you can feel 1g or 9.8m/s/s... that is you falling...with your mass it is your weight... the accelerations we are talking about are on the order of a thousand times smaller... i know you can feel a tenth of a gram...but I doubt you can feel this glacier slide...although the rocks falling do make a noise.