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MariaLida
Rosinitiate
Hahahahahahaha didn't they just have a mass earthquake drill?
Either this is classic Law of Attraction (and lesson of unintended consequences) or we got ourselves another 911. Only the drill was mistakenly a day early.edit on 19-10-2013 by Rosinitiate because: (no reason given)
Yes 2 days ago ..
Millions to Take Part in Global Earthquake Drill
LOS ANGELES October 17, 2013 (AP)
Hoping to survive an earthquake, many Californians and people in earthquake prone regions around the world were gearing up for a major earthquake drill.
More than 24 million people, including 9 ½ million in California, have signed up to duck under their desks at 10:17 a.m. local time Thursday, cover their heads and hold on to something sturdy.
The exercise allows first responders to dust off their emergency response plans and transportation departments to practice slowing down trains in the event of real shaking.
The Great ShakeOut was first held in California in 2008 and participation has since spread around the globe. This year, Japan, Canada, Italy and Guam planned to join the U.S. in the drill.
"Everyone everywhere should know how to protect themselves during an earthquake," lead organizer Mark Benthien said.
abcnews.go.com...
edit on 19-10-2013 by MariaLida because: (no reason given)
i hope you are right, everything in the crust is connected to everything else so seeing this still scares me since they keep telling us the whole thing may "unzip" all the way to Washington State.
Geology[edit]
Geologic evidence is widely interpreted by geologists as indicating the Gulf of California came into being around 5.3 million years ago as tectonic forces rifted the Baja California Peninsula off the North American Plate. As part of this process, the East Pacific Rise propagated up the middle of the Gulf along the seabed. This extension of the East Pacific Rise is often referred to as the Gulf of California Rift Zone. The Gulf would extend as far as Indio, California, except for the tremendous delta created by the Colorado River. This delta blocks the sea from flooding the Mexicali and Imperial Valleys. Volcanism dominates the East Pacific Rise. The island of Isla Tortuga is one example of this ongoing volcanic activity.[10]
intrptr
reply to post by Char-Lee
i hope you are right, everything in the crust is connected to everything else so seeing this still scares me since they keep telling us the whole thing may "unzip" all the way to Washington State.
"They" are misleading. Most of the California coast sits on a strike slip fault. Unlike subduction zones, they are less capable of having ginormous quakes (like Japan). The difference being a slipping fault line moves laterally grinding two plates together, and a subduction plunges one plate beneath the other. The latter type producers much stronger effects.
Having said that... heres a post from another thread about the fish that washed up in Japan before and the ones washing up on the western California coast. Could be old knowledge here by now.
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Clearly they still don't know all but they are learning.
OS ANGELES (KABC) -- A new study warns of a possible "mega-quake" in California. The research says the culprit is the massive San Andreas fault, which could rupture or "unzip" from one end of the state to the other.
According to seismologists, the 9.0-magnitude quake that hit Japan in 2011, killing thousands of people and damaging the Fukushima nuclear power plant was caused by a snap in a portion of a fault experts believed wouldn't likely rupture.
The new study based on research collected in the aftermath of that quake suggests California's San Andreas Fault could too.
starfoxxx
The fear mongering doom porn is deplorable.. It's a damn earthquake in the middle of the ocean, big deal..
Let's stop with the over dramatic overtone and star farming.
iunlimited491
reply to post by starfoxxx
starfoxxx
The fear mongering doom porn is deplorable.. It's a damn earthquake in the middle of the ocean, big deal..
Let's stop with the over dramatic overtone and star farming.
"Fear mongering"? - "Doom porn"?
Nobody is claiming the end of days here. The OP is simply reporting the event. Your comment is senseless and stupid. This was a sizable quake, and who cares that it was in the middle of the ocean? - The importance of 'how big of a deal' this is, is not for you to decide IMO.
starfoxxx
Nothing to big a deal, pretty far from the california line and in the middle of the ocean..
A new study warns of a possible "mega-quake" in California---
starfoxxx
It's a damn earthquake in the middle of the ocean, big deal..
Live through a couple of these, like some of us have, without pissing yourself, then come tell us about it.
starfoxxx
iunlimited491
reply to post by starfoxxx
starfoxxx
The fear mongering doom porn is deplorable.. It's a damn earthquake in the middle of the ocean, big deal..
Let's stop with the over dramatic overtone and star farming.
"Fear mongering"? - "Doom porn"?
Nobody is claiming the end of days here. The OP is simply reporting the event. Your comment is senseless and stupid. This was a sizable quake, and who cares that it was in the middle of the ocean? - The importance of 'how big of a deal' this is, is not for you to decide IMO.
No damage done anywhere, no one hurt, no tsunami, nothing happened.. It is a non-event being turned something it is not.. Nothing to see here folks.
MariaLida
One more EQ ..
2013-10-19 22:14:28.048min ago 25.10 N 110.75 W 10 4.6 GULF OF CALIFORNIA
www.emsc-csem.org...
Not the same location ..
earthquake.usgs.gov...
earthquake.usgs.gov...
edit on 19-10-2013 by MariaLida because: (no reason given)
Located atop three of the large tectonic plates, Mexico is one of the world's most seismically active regions. The relative motion of these crustal plates causes frequent earthquakes and occasional volcanic eruptions. Most of the Mexican landmass is on the westward moving North American plate. The Pacific Ocean floor south of Mexico is being carried northeastward by the underlying Cocos plate. Because oceanic crust is relatively dense, when the Pacific Ocean floor encounters the lighter continental crust of the Mexican landmass, the ocean floor is subducted beneath the North American plate creating the deep Middle American trench along Mexico's southern coast. Also as a result of this convergence, the westward moving Mexico landmass is slowed and crumpled creating the mountain ranges of southern Mexico and earthquakes near Mexico's southern coast. As the oceanic crust is pulled downward, it melts; the molten material is then forced upward through weaknesses in the overlying continental crust. This process has created a region of volcanoes across south-central Mexico known as the Cordillera Neovolcánica.
The area west of the Gulf of California, including Mexico's Baja California Peninsula, is moving northwestward with the Pacific plate at about 50 mm per year. Here, the Pacific and North American plates grind past each other creating strike-slip faulting, the southern extension of California's San Andreas fault. In the past, this relative plate motion pulled Baja California away from the coast forming the Gulf of California and is the cause of earthquakes in the Gulf of California region today.
sageturkey
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Considering that plate activity is what created the area where the EQ was located in the first place, any time that there is considerable movement there reminds me of the awesome forces at work and the potential for more of the same up the line. Just from looking at a map leaving all scientific data aside, I'm surprised that the Sea of Cortez isn't extended any farther North than it is now.