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NO MORE EARTHQUAKES...PLEASE!
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 (March 9, 2011 at 3:01 am)theVOID Wrote:(March 8, 2011 at 5:37 am)Chuck Wrote: You Australians imagine a quiver underfoot near hunter-mooki thrust and you think you know earthquakes. I live where the earth moved 350 miles in horizontally and at least 30000 feet vertically in 17 million years, I know earthquakes. I have over 100 mapped faults under my city. You?  RE: NO MORE EARTHQUAKES...PLEASE!
March 9, 2011 at 10:22 am
(This post was last modified: March 9, 2011 at 10:23 am by Anomalocaris.)
(March 9, 2011 at 2:35 am)orogenicman Wrote: Actually, there are a few places that pose very little risk of a serious Earthquake. As I pointed out earlier, the Canadian shield is one such place, as are most of the continental shields. They are very old, situated in the core of the continents, and are seismically very quiet. I'm a geologist, so I know a bit about these things. What about quakes stemming from isostatic relaxation of the Canadian shield?  
Taking about earthquakes, another earthquake hit Japan, followed up by a tsunami.
Poor Japan, may all the ones who lost their lives rest in peace. (March 11, 2011 at 4:08 am)Jax Wrote: Taking about earthquakes, another earthquake hit Japan, followed up by a tsunami. Both the Japanese islands and new Zealand owe their existence to subduction trenches off their shores, both are highly volcanic and both are subject to numerous quakes. 
Side note... supermoon on the 19th... shouldn't have any noticable affect though
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always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari  (March 11, 2011 at 4:34 am)Chuck Wrote:(March 11, 2011 at 4:08 am)Jax Wrote: Taking about earthquakes, another earthquake hit Japan, followed up by a tsunami. It's not the trenches they owe their existence to. The trenches are but one feature of a subduction zone. They owe their existence to convergent boundary plate tectonics, which is the sum total of all the tectonic features we see in these island chains, which include deep trenches, megathrust faulting, island arc volcanics, back arc basins, forearc basins, strike-slip faulting, dictinct mineralization and metamorphic zones, and even some divergent tectonics along the margins. There is a lot of interesting (and often deadly) geology going on in these islands arcs.
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I was oversimplifying for effect.
Indeed, Chuck. Gotta keep things simple for the creationists!
(March 13, 2011 at 10:25 pm)Chuck Wrote:(March 13, 2011 at 10:10 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Indeed, Chuck. Gotta keep things simple for the creationists! Yeah...well they are dumber than a bag of rocks. |
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