CLAIM: !! weapons can actually induce earthquakes !!!
background info: earthquakes happen through a "stick-slip" mechanism.
two tectonic plates move along eachother and tension between the plates builds up.
when a critical amount of tension (stick) is built up the plates will suddenly "slip" loose and cause an earthquake...
So the earthquake could've actually been triggered by the us navy, but then the question rises; if the navy hadn't launched some sort of bomb, tension would've still been rising and the resulting earthquake would've been even more powerfull...
So either way; the navy didn't do anything at all and chaves is a ffin moron (most likely)
or the navy did do some weapons test and triggered the earthquake, but thereby possibly saved a shit load of lives because if they didn't set it off now, the resulting quake would've been even more deadly ...
so far my 2cents on this jibberjabber.....