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To: Star Traveler
Just a layman wrt earthquakes. I know that releasing the energy in small event over time is preferable to the energy building up and being released in one event.

This isn't exactly an earth quake as in the fault in CA. The root causes are different. But the idea is the same.

90 posted on 03/30/2014 11:42:18 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: dhs12345

It’s not the same idea with earthquakes along fault lines versus earthquakes from magma movement. I’ll use Mt. St. Helens as an example, since I was there at the time.

Just like in Yellowstone, Mt. St. Helens has period explosive events. With Yellowstone it takes longer to fill up the magma chamber to turn into an explosive event - than it does at Mt. St. Helens. SO ... when St. Helens started showing a series of earthquakes, scientists took notice, because that indicated the movement of magma within the area (inside the mountain). And in that situation it WAS NOT A GOOD SIGN!

The question was, at the time - whether it was going to be a limited amount of movement and then stop and go away - or if it would continue.

To continue with the series of small earthquakes would be a VERY BAD SIGN. But, for the earthquakes to cease and the mountain to “go quiet” would be a VERY GOOD SIGN.

Well, with Mt. St. Helens ... it didn’t’ stop and the small earthquakes continued. I could feel them in Portland, Oregon, even though the mountain was in the State of Washington. And when the mountain started DEFORMING by FEET PER DAY ... that was a really really bad sign, in conjunction with those small earthquakes. That meant it was going to an ERUPTION!

Therefore in this case, the series of small earthquakes is BAD! The stopping of the small earthquakes is GOOD. That’s the EXACT OPPOSITE of what people would say in California, you see. But, that’s the way it is with earthquakes associated with the movement of magma.

I hopes that explains that many small earthquakes, along with the deformation of the ground - is something VERY BAD!


102 posted on 03/30/2014 12:20:31 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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