This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow CHRIS HARRIES, TASMANIA, [to the Australian] - On March 5 The Australian reported that U.S. forces began dropping for the first time deep penetration bombs in an effort to eliminate remnant Taliban fighters. The new bomb technology is designed to transmit shock waves deep into the earth and shatter cave systems that provide underground hideouts. Within 24 hours of that bombing campaign, world media sources independently reported on a significant earthquake in Northern Afghanistan, measuring 6.3 on the open-ended Richter scale. Concerned about a possible connection between these events, I immediately contacted a Washington-based news agency who very kindly undertook a search and followed up with a report quoting an expert seismologist opinion that the quake, untypical of that region, was 'likely to have been triggered by the bombing campaign.�