Reply #12: If you do not believe that "The Little Skull Mountain earthquake and ... [View All]

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... numerous others at about the same time in the western U.S. ... <were> ... triggered by the magnitude 7.4 Landers earthquake, in California," more is required to debunk the idea than suggesting that it originated in name confusion.


Here is a little snippet from some seismologists discussing the impact of an Alaska quake on Yellowstone:

"Scientists once believed that an earthquake at one location could not trigger earthquakes at distant sites. But that belief was shattered in 1992 when the magnitude-7.3 Landers earthquake in California's Mojave Desert triggered a swarm of quakes more than 800 miles away at Yellowstone, as well as other jolts near Mammoth Lakes, Calif., and Yucca Mountain, Nev."
http://www.seis.utah.edu/RecentNews/YNP-11042002.shtml