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[snip] fears active fault-line could cause Japan-style tsunami that could devastate [CA & HI]
dailymail ^ | 10:43 EST, 16 May 2012 | Eddie Wrenn

Posted on 05/19/2012 4:52:22 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Scientists say a fault-line running across Alaska could cause tsunamis of the same magnitude as the Japanese disaster of March last year. Attention has turned to the Alaskan-Aleutian subduction zone, a region where one of the earth's tectonic plate, carrying the Pacific Ocean, drops beneath the North American plate. A particular section of the fault near the Semidi Islands has not ruptured since at least 1788, and measurements on this area - which lies four to five kilometres under water - reveal the pressure is accumulating rapidly. If the Pacific Ocean plate slips, as happened in the geographically-similar Tohoku subduction zone off the coast of Japan, a tsunami could occur - and the deaths could happen as far away as Hawaii and California.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2145312/Scientists-turn-Alaska-fears-active-fault-line-cause-Japan-style-tsunami-devastate-California-Hawaii.html#ixzz1vMYUAdT8

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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: alaska; aleutians; california; catastrophism; hawaii; japan; pacificocean; semidiislands; tohoku

1 posted on 05/19/2012 4:52:32 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

It’s always when, not if.


2 posted on 05/19/2012 4:58:54 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: BenLurkin

If it happens it’s Bush’s fault!!! Pun intended.


3 posted on 05/19/2012 5:00:02 PM PDT by cdcdawg
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To: BenLurkin

Yeah, probably.

Not much we can do about it.


4 posted on 05/19/2012 5:00:39 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: BenLurkin; Kathy in Alaska; All

Deadliest catch captains fault????


5 posted on 05/19/2012 5:00:39 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: BenLurkin

Seismologists have also been concerned about the area west of Yakutat around Kayak Island for many years. In this area the Pacific plate subducts under the North American plate and there haven’t been any quakes for a long time. I read one estimate that when this area ruptures it could be like the 9.2 mag Good Friday earthquake of 1964.


6 posted on 05/19/2012 5:02:31 PM PDT by 43north (BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED)
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To: BenLurkin

Long way away.

The Cascadia subduction zone, right off Oregon / Washington is capable of similar behavior.


7 posted on 05/19/2012 5:03:02 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (America doesn't need any new laws. America needs freedom!)
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To: BenLurkin

Amazing how the scientists never mention the threat of the Borg coming to earth.


8 posted on 05/19/2012 5:04:24 PM PDT by IrishPennant (Are you behind a "Blade of Grass?")
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To: IrishPennant
Amazing how the scientists never mention the threat of the Borg coming to earth.

Coming? Perhaps you "missed something."



:-)



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9 posted on 05/19/2012 5:17:47 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: BenLurkin

Alaska? The would be Seward faulty.


10 posted on 05/19/2012 5:28:42 PM PDT by ThomasThomas (Entropy isn't what it used to be)
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To: ThomasThomas

That is...

Alaska? The would be Seward’s faulty.


11 posted on 05/19/2012 5:29:52 PM PDT by ThomasThomas (Entropy isn't what it used to be)
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To: ThomasThomas

Pretty clever T.T..


12 posted on 05/19/2012 5:34:48 PM PDT by mcshot (God bless the USA!)
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To: TLI

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.....


13 posted on 05/19/2012 5:58:09 PM PDT by IrishPennant (Are you behind a "Blade of Grass?")
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To: BenLurkin

That would stop a lot of global warming.


14 posted on 05/19/2012 7:31:24 PM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: BenLurkin

That would stop a lot of global warming.


15 posted on 05/19/2012 7:31:43 PM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: 75thOVI; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; ...

Thanks BenLurkin.

 
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16 posted on 05/19/2012 8:55:07 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (FReepathon 2Q time -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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http://web.archive.org/web/20070503062256/http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a9f1cc964a4.htm


17 posted on 05/19/2012 9:02:09 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (FReepathon 2Q time -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: BenLurkin

THANKS.


On the other hand, with different fingers . . .

Nothing here. Move along.

Only kooks like Quix pay attention to such issues.


18 posted on 05/19/2012 10:04:27 PM PDT by Quix (Time is short: INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: Quix
*PING* -- concerning your recent post about urgent prayer, the "wheel" centered on Indonesia, etc.

Thoughts?

19 posted on 05/20/2012 6:07:04 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

Scripture is moderately clear that there will be unprecedented quakes in the END TIMES.

Alaska certainly has lots of seismically active areas near and under its coastal waters.

Just looking at lawlessness flood the planet and globalism advance apace . . . folks who deny that these are the END TIMES are walking in horrific denial and cluelessness.

Increasingly dramatic wake-up calls are scheduled—man-made wars, by God and otherwise.


20 posted on 05/20/2012 8:37:36 AM PDT by Quix (Time is short: INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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