Boobquake Failure

The mullahs were wrong.

The creator of Boobquake said the results are in: Boobquake did not move the earth.

On her blog, Purdue Senior Jennifer McCreight said that according to the USGS website, there were 47 earthquakes yesterday. That number may sound high, but in reality there are many earthquakes nearly every day and 47 is not an abnormal number.

McCreight said to be statistically abnormal there would have had to have been over 148 quakes yesterday - over three times the actual total.

The 6.5-magnitude earthquake in Taiwan had many buzzing that Boobquake had moved the earth, but the event's creator said that's not the case.

"Sorry to be a buzzkill - hey, I'd like magical control over plate tectonics too - but that single earthquake wasn't significant. Earthquakes between 6.0 and 6.9 magnitude happen, on average, 134 times a year. That means we had about a 37% probability of an earthquake of that magnitude happening on boobquake just due to chance alone - hardly an improbable event that needs to be attributed to an angry deity," stated McCreight on her blog.

The average magnitude of earthquakes yesterday was actually slightly lower than the average for the past two months, causing McCreight to quip that perhaps the hypothesis that immodest women reduce earthquakes needs to be examined.