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The south is SINKING: Giant chunks of the Earth's mantle are falling off and causing quakes across
Daily Mail ^ | 4 MAy 2014 | MARK PRIGG

Posted on 05/04/2016 7:43:25 PM PDT by Fractal Trader

The southeastern United States has been hit by a series of strange unexplained quakes - most recently, the 2011 magnitude-5.8 earthquake near Mineral, Virginia that shook the nation's capital. Researchers have been baffled, believing the areas should be relatively quiet in terms of seismic activity, as it is located in the interior of the North American Plate, far away from plate boundaries where earthquakes usually occur. Now, they believe the quakes could be caused by pieces of the Earth's mantle breaking off and sinking into the planet.

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KEYWORDS: catastrophism; continentaldrift; crust; doomage; doomed; earthchanges; earthquakes; edgarcayce; freepun; mantle; markprigg; mineral; planetx; platetectonics; storkzilla; virginia; virginiabeach; wewillalldie
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To: Fractal Trader

Bush’s fault and climate change.


21 posted on 05/04/2016 8:13:55 PM PDT by Parmy (II don't know how to past the images.)
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To: PTBAA

Bwaaaahaaaaaaa!


22 posted on 05/04/2016 8:16:17 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: dragnet2
Wasn’t this the quake which damaged the Washington Monument?

Yes. Also the National Cathedral and quite a few other buildings.

23 posted on 05/04/2016 8:22:55 PM PDT by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Post of the day.


24 posted on 05/04/2016 8:23:19 PM PDT by Mercat (Boredom is a problem on the inside. And happiness, too, is an inside job.)
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To: Fractal Trader

Yikes! Living in Florida may not be a safe as previously thought it to be. I can see this peninsula breaking off and dropping to the ocean bottom soon! And I thought that gators were something to be afraid of.


25 posted on 05/04/2016 8:23:53 PM PDT by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: dragnet2

Yes.


26 posted on 05/04/2016 8:27:23 PM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789)
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To: Mercat
Yes, it certainly ia the Post of the Day.

But the region was built over the past billion years by periods of accretion, when new material is added to a plate, and rifting, when plates split apart.

It takes the kind of accretion created by the ponderous weight of sin to push DC into the fiery pit out of which its inhabitants crawled.

27 posted on 05/04/2016 8:33:21 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Stop Islam and save the world.)
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To: Fractal Trader

Please stop jumping up and down!


28 posted on 05/04/2016 8:35:37 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Fractal Trader

If only there were fracking in that region, we’d have that to blame and Bambi would be happy.


29 posted on 05/04/2016 8:35:42 PM PDT by G Larry (ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants.)
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To: BatGuano
But hopefully, it won't flip over like Guam!
30 posted on 05/04/2016 8:36:41 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: Fractal Trader

The earth is dying. GOD never created it to last forever.


31 posted on 05/04/2016 8:40:22 PM PDT by CyberAnt ("Peace Through Strength")
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To: dragnet2
Watch everything but CA sink. Bewahahaha.

LOL

32 posted on 05/04/2016 8:41:48 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Fractal Trader

What’s the mechanism? These quakes are relatively shallow, within <5-10 km, indicating crustal movements along strike- slip planes, whereas one should expect normal or thrust faulting and deeper foci if mantle slippage were the case. Besides, differentiation of mantle material in this regions has had a long time to isostasize.

I suspect these guys are just looking for grant money.


33 posted on 05/04/2016 9:07:32 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Fractal Trader

Al Gore is going to start selling earthquake credits. People in earthquake prone areas can buy them and sell them to people on terra firma. Of course Al Gore has to get his commission.


34 posted on 05/04/2016 9:11:09 PM PDT by seawolf101 (This)
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To: onedoug
I suspect these guys are just looking for grant money.

For about $200 Million Dollars even I can do an earthquake study, come up with a cool powerpoint presentation, get some hollyweird celebrities to say this is all caused by global warming and put some alphabet soup letters after my name so it all looks official.

35 posted on 05/04/2016 9:19:29 PM PDT by seawolf101 (This)
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To: Fractal Trader

So, the South won’t be rising again, eh?


36 posted on 05/04/2016 9:36:56 PM PDT by RedMonqey ("Gun-free zones" equal "Target-rich environment.")
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To: Fractal Trader

Hysterics?


37 posted on 05/04/2016 10:04:22 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (He wins & we do, our nation does, the world does. It's morning in America again. You are living it!)
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To: Fractal Trader; SunkenCiv

38 posted on 05/04/2016 10:10:28 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Fractal Trader

“The southeastern United States has been hit by a series of strange unexplained quakes - most recently, the 2011 magnitude-5.8 earthquake near Mineral, Virginia that shook the nation’s capital. Researchers have been baffled, believing the areas should be relatively quiet in terms of seismic activity, as it is located in the interior of the North American Plate, far away from plate boundaries where earthquakes usually occur. Now, they believe the quakes could be caused by pieces of the Earth’s mantle breaking off and sinking into the planet.”

Contrary to the article’s comment abut being in the interior of a continental plate, Mineral, Virginia, is located in the Appalachian Mountains, which came into existence because two continental plates collided at that location and created the mountain range. The relics of the old plate boundaries are still an area that produces a lessened amount of tectonic activity and associated earthquake activity along the old plate boundaries.


39 posted on 05/04/2016 10:15:17 PM PDT by WhiskeyX
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To: Da Coyote

So, Earthquakes are caused by Tectonic Plates Falling Off of the Continental Shelf?


40 posted on 05/04/2016 11:21:00 PM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus headsConservatus)
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