Posted on 04/12/2007 11:04:07 PM PDT by Brian Mosely
Yoy.
LOL, yep, Happy Friday the 13th back at ya!
LOL!
Prayers...
While California Oregon or Washington could get hit next the area is way to great for these types of events to move in the way you are talking about, at least outside of geologic time trame, in the 100,000 to few million year time frame. If one of these states have an earthquake it wouldnt be because of these others. Earthquakes typically only displace a fairly short distance, you might see a dried up creek bed or two in a row shifted with several feet of displacement where the creekbed would kind of end and begin again a few feet down the slip line. What you are talking about would require earthquakes of a magnitude that has yet to be recorded.
Now this
A major swarm of earthquakes is circling the Pacific Rim and illegally migrating north.
| Mag: 6.3 | Epicentro: COSTA DE GUERRERO | |||
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Is it just me or do only a handful of FReepers understand anything about seismology?
We’re doomed...it’s coming this way!
Sure, it isn't too big unless the fault line runs under BIGLOOK's house.
Well, when parts of Mexico City goes dark after an earthquake, things might get intersante!
There are about 15 or 20 earthquakes a week in Mexico (sometimes more), mostly along the Pacific coast. For those interested, the Servicio Sismologico Nacional website is updated continuously (http://www.ssn.unam.mx/)
1) Not like it's covered at any level of school anywhere...
2) There's an awesome amount of nonsense and snake oil regarding quakes being shilled out there - Jim Berkland, and Stan Deyo being the most prominent offenders.
3) The Apocalyptikooks (Hal Lindsey, etc.) make it worse.
4) A lot of people who really don't know much about seismology just started paying attention to it since the Sumatra quake. I notice that people who just recently started paying attention to it don't really understand the high level of seismicity that is "Normal." There's a M6+ quake every 2.5 days in the world. Alaska ALWAYS has 3.0 or so quakes all the time, etc. 5) Humans are really good at making non-existent connections between unrelated and largely random events. There's a desperate need to see order in disorder.
I heard on the radio this morning the region where this powerful Mexican earthquake took place has not had any major activity since 1911. Once again the Ring of Fire letting of more steam over the last few months.
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