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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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However it does seem as though there has been an increase in quake activity around the world. Next, watch for some big volcano to blow it’s top.


7 posted on 02/08/2010 10:02:44 PM PST by gleeaikin
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