Posted on 03/09/2010 9:23:48 PM PST by TaraP
With disasters striking Haiti, Chile and most recently Turkey, it seems like there is no end in sight for the earthquake-weary.
New evidence released from Ohio State University (OSU) shows that the 8.8-magnitude mega-quake that struck off the coast of Chile last month was so powerful that multiple South American cities were picked up and physically moved from their original locations.
The effects of the temblor that struck Concepcion, Chile, were felt as far away as Brazil and the Falkland Islands in what is believed to be the fifth largest quake ever recorded.
Here's the break down of the shake-up:
Conception, Chile, shifted 10 feet to the west. Santiago, Chile’s capital, was displaced about 11 inches to the west-southwest. Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, moved about 1 inch to the west. And Buenos Aires sits on the other side of the continent! The cities of Valparaiso and Mendoza, Argentina, northeast of Concepcion, also showed significant movement.
Image shows a map of the preliminary recorded movement readings of city displacement caused by the 8.8-magnitude quake, based on the team's GPS measurements. Map produced by James Foster and Ben Brooks.
So how do you measure how an entire city moves?
Researchers from four universities and several agencies -- including geophysicists on the ground in Chile -- gathered readings at 25 GPS locator stations set up prior to the major quake and then compared them to readings taken 10 days later to come up with their preliminary numbers.
The measuring project is called Project CAP: Central and Southern Andes GPS Project.
/mark
They moved relative to what? If the entire continent ‘moved’ are we to assume to sky is falling? Doomsday is near? The 2012 movie is actually a factual documentary? Oh noes!
I feel the Earth move under my feet; I feel the sky tumbling down . . .
Fascinating
If Concepcion, Chile, on the West coast of South America, moved west 10 feet, and Buenos Aires, on the east coast of south America, moved one inch, did the continent get wider?
(My DH posed that question. I’m not that smart.)
That is the earth moving. Not only are illegal aliens headed our way, but their darn cities are right behind them!
You raise a very good question. Did sufficient uplift occur from underneath to displace that much land to the west? Or did the elevation fall?
later
As the Nazca plate in the Pacific moved eastward, down underneath the South American continent, the westernmost part of South America moved westward.
ROFLOL
ping
Maybe the resonant energy waves moved the satellites?
Are airlines going to jack up their rates for the longer flight distances now?
Expanded tax base. :-)
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