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[BurningSoul]

I still think something will come of that statement about the US Coast Guard being on site during the event. More video, audio?

[dontlookmyage]

I mentioned this before in the Mega-Thread, Jr. (video):
I looked at the USGS website to see if there was any seismic activity in the ATlantic during that time (though it would be OOG, since the USGS is a real entity and doesn't need the publicity like EndOil would), and there was an event on the 27th of December, very near where the event was said to be in a couple of the broadcasts. The next day, there was one in the P.R. Trench (where the fictional Kaika station is located, unrelated to the movie, but interesting to me, nonetheless). I attempted to see if there was a website for the Seismological Institute in Ribadeo, but found nothing. I did, however, find this website: http://www.orfeus-eu.org/Organization/participation.html, which, when I clicked on the link, came up with this message:

[deadtotheworld564]

How is this related. At a quick gance i don't see anythign related to activity in the atlantic.

[kosmopol]

Russian News also doubt about natural causes of the catastrophe. They tell about military skirmish and suppose, some terroristic activities were responsible for the collaps.

Perhaps the news would have only 2 possibilities: natural cataclism or military act. Hypothesis like "monsters" etc. wouldn't come through the office table of a news editor.

But for military actings it's very few possibilities, because only with Kalashnikov-skirmish they couldn't destroy the whole plattform. reasonable for the military version were submarine attack. But TIDo doesn't have submarines, I suppose

Perhaps the whole military activities by Tagruato agents are only forcing for workers evacuation.

[Venom034]

Ninjas...

[kosmopol]

Re: Ninjas...

[dontlookmyage]

Lots of speculation ahead:
Earthquake activity was reported in one of the broadcasts as a possible source of destruction of the station. WE know better and think it may give us a clue to MGP's origin. There was an actual earthquake on the 27th of December, right near the area where the Chuai station is supposed to be in the movie. The PMs may have used this actual event in their broadcasts to show that MGP came from that area and caused that event. In the Spanish broadcast, they focused on the seismic event and said it was captured by the Seismological Institute of Ribadeo in Spain. I was trying to find that fictional website, but came up only with that one site that gave me the error message. The rest of the sites were legit.

There is also another theory that there may be more than one monster and that the drilling stations are actually holding pens. I'm not sure about that, but it's still an option to speculate about until the movie comes out. If that was the case, perhaps there will be other seismic activity around the sites of the other drilling stations, which happen to be near tectonic plates. It may be a signal to the other monsters (if there are any) to get up. If that were the case, the world's royally farked. Just a stab in the dark, but it could happen (then we'd have lots of sequels).

Another reason that the earthquake activity could come into play would be the tsunami element, if the quake were strong enough. The actual quake measured 4.6 on the Richter scale, not enough to cause any wave damage, at least not to the US. Bermuda, however, is in the line of fire, and definitely does not have the resources or fire power to defend itself. What if MGP decided to snack there before heading West to NYC?

I'm not sure how the seismic activity comes into play here, but it was mentioned at least in two broadcasts, so that is something to look at.

[Slusho Addict]

The Tanker part has not been fully translated on Cloverfield Clues.

[rocksmars]

The logo on the TAG tanker is so large because it is actually the landing mark for a helipad. It seems straight up because we are always seeing the tanker listing.

The Hav Lind is not the tanker from the trailers. Besides the lack of logo TAG's seems to be a newer model with a different superstructure.
The Hav Lind looks like a run of the mill old tanker.

[rekdal]

The Norvegian connection - again

[eliwein]

In the mega-thread,

[dontlookmyage]

[rocksmars]

[Mukatsuku]

I apologise if this comes through as a double post but my post I just made seems to have vanished.

Just to confirm - the translation I made of the Japanese video was correct so you can remove all my doubting comments (I live in Japan but have yet to gain confidence in the language, apparently unnecessarily so) - I checked with one of my Japanese friends and what I said was correct.

Also, Tagruato denies the existance of the armed troops, but the newscaster points out that they are wearing the Tag logo.

Thirdly, the tanker was definitely coming from Norway and going to New York when contact was lost with it - it's not related to Tag or Tidowave as far as we can see so far - the news reports certainly don't think it's from either group.

[rocksmars]