(March 8, 2011 at 7:26 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote:(March 8, 2011 at 6:56 am)Chuck Wrote: I never said there are any place on earth that's completely free from the posibility of modreate earthquakes. But frequent large earth quakes do tend to be concentrated within a few hundred miles of active plate boundaries, volcanic hot spots, or near known past triple junction points.
This is a general fact chuckie. The tenor of your post suggested that there were "safe spots" on the planet.
On a curious note ..there were those 6.8 quakes in New Zealand and the whole of the pacific rim was active including bumfuck nowhere Western Australia....go figure 4000km plus from the epicentre
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.
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