What will you be thinking if there is a 3rd quake in an unusual location?

[hedgehog]

[hedgehog]

1. I'm putting my money on global warming - the glaciers left

over from the Ice Age are melting fast.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. That humans are special only because we tell ourselves we are.

Nature has some unpleasant ways of reminding us that, despite our big brains, and huge egos, we really aren't in charge.

[Blue_In_AK]

3. Ding, ding, ding. You win. n/t

[RT Atlanta]

4. "a tremor in the Force" is happening

and Darth Vader is about to kick some Obi-Wan Kenobi arse

[MineralMan]

5. Nothing much. Stuff happens when it happens. A least geological

stuff. It's amazing there isn't more movement of the earth.

[CleanGreenFuture]

6. Meh.

[zappaman]

8. HAARP is making a good showing

must be something to it, eh?

[CleanGreenFuture]

11. Do not chase me around this board with this shit.

[Morning Dew]

7. New chiffon ad campaign, maybe.

[kick-ass-bob]

9. military tests.

Or we are being invaded by martians.

[Cleita]

10. It's global warning.

I posted an article a few months back by a scientist in Britain who believes the giant and in unusual places that there are earthquakes and the giant storms we have been having are do to the earth shifting and adapting to climate change. Very few people read it and now I don't remember exactly where I found it. But I really believe he is right.

[sfpcjock]

12. #7 - The Rebels are doing a great job!

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[Hubert Flottz]

13. "It's because the president went on vacation," should be on any

list of probable causes!

[doublethink]

14. Third time's the charm?

:shrug:

[Throd]

15. That for the next few days we will hear about every earthquake on the planet.

Probably with a good measure of flappy armed hyperbole and scientific ignorance thrown in for good measure.

[Myrina]

16. Khadaffi's digging a tunnel and keeps getting lost?

:shrug: .... a la Wile E Coyote? :shrug:

[HappyMe]

19. Pass the paper towel .....

:spray:

[dtexdem]

17. Meh, or maybe meh meh.

[HappyMe]

18. Meh.

Geological stuff is always going on underneath our feet. Sometimes we know it because we can feel it.

[Rex]

20. I voted for HAARP. All those senior citizens are getting angry!

Probably Florida's fault.

[Earth_First]

21. 3rd quake > media meltdown > stock market plunge > bank run > supermarket riots

gas stations shut down on panic buying > widespread blackouts > neighbors banding together in vigilante shotgun groups to protect the women and children...

...and we all wake up, make coffee, commute to work and laugh it all off at the water cooler on Wednesday...

[fishwax]

22. the moon taking its revenge for bombing it a couple of years back

All the moon has to do is give a sharp gravitational tug and suddenly the ground is shaking down here.

[kenny blankenship]

23. Unusual locations? You mean there is a place on earth not located over a tectonic plate?

Haiti has earthquakes. Japan is so famous for earthquakes and tsunamis that their language has donated the word tsunami to the whole world. One of their most cherished national symbols (Mt Fuji) is a freakin' volcano. As for New Zealand, please have a look at this page. What unusual locations besides the Mid Atlantic region did you have in mind? And you know there is a giant fault line under the Mississippi River, centered at the junction of TN, MO, KY and AR, right?

Geologists continue to find fault lines where you might think it an "unusual location." One was located in 2009 in Arkansas, separate from the New Madrid fault line, and scientists estimated it had produced Magnitude 7 quakes in the past.

There's no place that is really an impossible or unusual location for an earthquake, just locations that have them more or less frequently. Earthquakes are a usual feature of our Earth's tectonic crust. If there was a continent without any mountains, maybe that would be an unusual location for an earthquake to occur.

New Fault Raises Threat of Eastern Earthquakes
Robert Roy Britt
Date: 22 January 2009 <--Check the date!

In August, scientists said the New York City area is at "substantially greater" risk of earthquakes than previously thought. The Indian Point nuclear power plants, 24 miles north of the city, sits astride the previously unidentified intersection of two active seismic zones, the researchers noted.

In general, geologists warn that large earthquakes are rare East of the Rocky Mountains, but they do occur and are bound to prove devastating.


Other parts of the East have more faults than previously thought, too. Though they have not been active in perhaps a thousand years or more, faults in upstate New York, found in 2000, nonetheless have the potential to generate large events.

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A 5.0 temblor in 1737 knocked down chimneys in New York City and was felt from Boston to Philadelphia. A magnitude-5.5 quake in 1884 did similar damage in a wider region around New York. Another quake in this range struck in 1783.