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To: varina davis

Part of the same fault that hit Haiti?


4 posted on 02/08/2010 6:50:20 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation

Completely different plate, plate boundary, and type of fault. The Plantain Garden Fault that caused the Haiti Earthquake is a Strike-Slip fault caused by motion of the Carribean plate against the North American Plate; it runs from the Dominican Republic to Jamaica.

This earthquake is along the boundary of the Cocos Plate where it is subducting under the North American Plate, along the Mexican Pacific coast.


5 posted on 02/08/2010 9:05:47 PM PST by Strategerist
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