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Antarctica rocked by 30,000 tremors in 3 months, Chilean scientists say
reuters ^
| 16 December 2020 20:41 GMT
Posted on 12/18/2020 7:50:48 AM PST by BenLurkin
Scientists with the university's National Seismological Center said the small quakes - including one stronger shake of magnitude 6 - were detected in the Bransfield Strait, a 60-mile wide (96-km) ocean channel between the South Shetland Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula.
Several tectonic plates and microplates meet near the strait, leading to frequent rumbling, but the past three months have been unusual, according to the center.
"Most of the seismicity is concentrated at the beginning of the sequence, mainly during the month of September, with more than a thousand earthquakes a day," the center said.
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"It's a 20-fold increase ... which suggests that right this minute ... the Shetland Islands are separating more quickly from the Antarctic peninsula," said Sergio Barrientos, the center's director.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: antarctica; tremors
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posted on
12/18/2020 7:50:48 AM PST
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BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Are they counting the illegal tremors too ?
Seismograph software by Dominion.
To: BenLurkin
Paging Kevin Bacon...
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posted on
12/18/2020 7:56:52 AM PST
by
Magnum44
(My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
To: BenLurkin
Well, yeah, it’s on the BOTTOM!..................
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posted on
12/18/2020 7:59:26 AM PST
by
Red Badger
( “The goal of socialism is communism.”... Vladimir Lenin)
To: BenLurkin
Not my circus. Not my monkeys.
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posted on
12/18/2020 8:01:44 AM PST
by
Governor Dinwiddie
(Guide me, O thou great redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
To: Red Badger
Oh the horror! Women, and Chil......... Ummmmm, wait,.........nobody hit.
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posted on
12/18/2020 8:02:04 AM PST
by
MPJackal
("From my cold dead hands.")
To: BenLurkin
The aliens that live under the ice sheet are up to something big....
To: BenLurkin
That is almost as many tremors as Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden have in a single day.
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posted on
12/18/2020 8:04:45 AM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: MPJackal
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posted on
12/18/2020 8:06:38 AM PST
by
kaktuskid
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
12/18/2020 8:09:05 AM PST
by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: MPJackal
Penguins and walruses hardest hit!................
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posted on
12/18/2020 8:12:03 AM PST
by
Red Badger
( “The goal of socialism is communism.”... Vladimir Lenin)
To: BenLurkin
Could this be related to the shifting of the magnetic poles?
To: BenLurkin
Maybe they had beans for dinner?
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posted on
12/18/2020 8:22:01 AM PST
by
RightGeek
(FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
To: BenLurkin
Old Ones:
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posted on
12/18/2020 8:23:07 AM PST
by
PLMerite
("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
To: BenLurkin
Maybe the tremors are from Antarctica bein’ so chile ‘nat?
To: BenLurkin
Some of the volcanoes of Antarctica waking up?
A good way to conclude the year 2020.
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12/18/2020 8:26:54 AM PST
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Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
To: BenLurkin
Antarctica rocked by 30,000 tremors in 3 months, Chilean scientists say The Kraken being released?
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posted on
12/18/2020 8:33:43 AM PST
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The Sons of Liberty
(A Deplorable behind enemy lines in the newly occupied socialist state of Georgia)
To: The Sons of Liberty
Snap, Kraken, Pop! Ice Crispies...
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posted on
12/18/2020 8:51:02 AM PST
by
null and void
(My President is a Person Of Color, Orange is a Color...)
To: null and void
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posted on
12/18/2020 9:03:45 AM PST
by
Covenantor
(We are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who can not govern. " Chesterton)
To: Deaf Smith
the scientist located 70 + new volcanoes under the ice in 2017 , nothing should suprise them,
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12/18/2020 9:14:17 AM PST
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bdfromlv
(Leavenworth hard time)
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