Re: Planet X: TUNGUSKA as Example

<tholen@AntiSpam.ham> wrote 
> Nancy Lieder writes:
>
>> Tunguska was not caused by a meteor or comet.  It was a methane gas
>> explosion, caused by a pocket of gas released during an earthquake.
>
> Evidence, please.  Where is the seismological data?
>


3.4. THE TECTONIC AND METEOROLOGICAL ACTIVITY AT THE SITE AND 
     THE TIME OF THE TUNGUSKA

There are signs of increased tectonic activity during the time of 
the Tunguska. For example, in 1908 ten observer's reports on 
seismic events came from the Lake Baikal region. In the next few 
years, their number dwindled abruptly (1 - in 1909, 2 - in 1910),
no shocks having been registered in 1911 [39].

The distribution of the reports on seismic events inside the year 
1908 is also remarkable. On FIGURE2 there are the reports on 
earthquakes in the Lake Baikal region from the spring to the fall 
of 1908 [39].


Figure 2

It is seen that the seismic events are concentrated near the 
Tunguska date, June 30. It is also notable to mention the July 1908
message by the Tomsk's student Bryukhanov A. to the director of the
Irkutsk magnetic-meteorological observatory, in which Bryukhanov 
wrote about unusual event near Ust'-Kut settlement (513 km, 152) -
the appearance in the 1908 summer of a hot spring with various 
chemical elements presented. It didn't exist before.

So there are evidences of the activation of tectonic processes at 
the place and at the time of the Tunguska.

Moreover the author's analysis reveals activation of tectonic 
processes at the Tunguska times not only in the Lake Baikal rift 
and the southern part of the Siberian platform but also on more 
large (global?) scale. The evidences are following.