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The world's largest recorded deep earthquake occurred on May 24, 2013, at a depth of 609 km in the subducting Pacific plate beneath the Sea of Okhotsk near Kamchatka, Russia, as shown in the schematic vertical cross-section above and on the map below. (Credit: diagram by L. Ye and T. Lay, map by Ye et al., Science)


1 posted on 09/21/2013 10:35:06 AM PDT by oxcart
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To: neverdem; SunkenCiv

(((Ping)))


2 posted on 09/21/2013 10:36:33 AM PDT by oxcart (Journalism [sic])
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To: oxcart

“There will be an increase in earthquakes”


4 posted on 09/21/2013 10:40:11 AM PDT by Viennacon
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To: oxcart

gophers?


5 posted on 09/21/2013 10:41:05 AM PDT by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead.)
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To: oxcart

It’s obviously caused by a combination of climate change, fracking and the tea party.

Oh, racism too.


7 posted on 09/21/2013 10:42:08 AM PDT by prisoner6 ( FREEDOM!)
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To: oxcart

Proving that more stimulus money is needed to study this.


10 posted on 09/21/2013 11:07:59 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: oxcart
Hmm...nobody is answering the phones at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider project site.
11 posted on 09/21/2013 11:08:03 AM PDT by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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To: oxcart

What? Something as simple as a single earthquake and the

SCIENCE ISN’T SETTLED???


19 posted on 09/21/2013 12:09:34 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (....Let It Burn...)
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To: oxcart
Sounds like the Old Ones to me.


24 posted on 09/21/2013 12:56:44 PM PDT by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: oxcart
The presence of fluid can lubricate the fault,

I feel a country western song lyric stirring in me

29 posted on 09/21/2013 2:09:08 PM PDT by beebuster2000
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To: oxcart

The earth is twerking!


30 posted on 09/21/2013 2:13:08 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: oxcart

Pressure induced metamorphic change of structure with reduction of volume and attendant shock wave.


34 posted on 09/21/2013 9:41:16 PM PDT by Ozark Tom
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