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USGS: AN EARTHQUAKE WITH A PRELIMINARY MAGNITUDE OF 8 HAS STRUCK OFF MEXICO'S SOUTHERN COAST
AP ^ | 9/8/2017

Posted on 09/07/2017 10:20:19 PM PDT by advance_copy

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To: BenLurkin

Interesting.

There was damage in Tohoku, Japan from the earthquake in Chile.

Wow.


61 posted on 09/07/2017 11:04:14 PM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: topher
USGS now has quake as 8.1... Tsunami bulletins has quake as 8.2
62 posted on 09/07/2017 11:05:17 PM PDT by topher (Traditional values -- especially family values -- which have been proven over time.)
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To: ETL

LOL
Actually I’ve been following quakes since the 80’s
Its a hobby of mine


63 posted on 09/07/2017 11:06:46 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: weston; ETL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_America_Trench

The Middle America Trench is a major subduction zone, an oceanic trench in the eastern Pacific Ocean off the southwestern coast of Middle America, stretching from central Mexico to Costa Rica. The trench is 1,700 miles (2,750 km) long and is 21,880 feet (6,669 m) at its deepest point. The trench is the boundary between the Rivera, Cocos, and Nazca plates, and the North American and Caribbean plates. It is currently the 18th deepest trench in the world. Many large earthquakes have occurred in the area of the Middle America Trench.[1]

The Middle America Trench can be divided into a northern and a southern section. However, the division is not the same in its seaward side and its landward side. In the seaward side, the northern section, called the Acapulco Trench, runs from Jalisco to the Tehuantepec Ridge, and the southern section, called the Guatemala Trench, runs from the Tehuantepec Ridge to the Cocos Ridge.[2] On the landward side, the division is demarcated along the Polochic-Motagua fault system (see Motagua Fault), the boundary between the North American Plate and the Caribbean Plate.[3] The dividing point in the landward side is about 400 km east of that in the seaward side.[4]


64 posted on 09/07/2017 11:07:27 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: advance_copy

I hope it’s not so bad that the US feels obligated to take in “refugees” from the quake zone.


65 posted on 09/07/2017 11:07:42 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: ransomnote

September 23rd 2017. This could just be the beginning of sorrows :( Only time will tell.


66 posted on 09/07/2017 11:08:42 PM PDT by kelly4c
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To: cba123

Wouldn’t have known much about that quake if I hadn’t seen this movie one night while watching Spanish language TV....

03:34 Terremoto en Chile (2011)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1862444/


67 posted on 09/07/2017 11:11:05 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: shibumi
What next? ping


68 posted on 09/07/2017 11:11:35 PM PDT by Salamander (I'm on the wrong side of Heaven and the righteous side of Hell...)
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To: ransomnote

Yes they claim the big quake off fukushima Japan followed a CME and we are experiencing a large geomagnetic storm today


69 posted on 09/07/2017 11:12:00 PM PDT by silverleaf (We voted for change, not leftover change)
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To: BenLurkin
Yes, some pretty complex plate tectonics going on there with those mini-plates and numerous plate boundary interactions. And this is just a simplified map.

Image result for mexico plate tectonics map

70 posted on 09/07/2017 11:12:07 PM PDT by ETL (See my FR Home page for a closer look at today's Communist/Anarchist protest groups)
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To: Zathras

That’s pretty neat and scary at the same time.

Doesn’t the Cascadia fault have the potential to cause more damage than the San Andreas fault?

With the pattern you mentioned, what time line are we looking at for the Cascadia?

We can only hope they don’t jar open the caldera under Yellowstone.


71 posted on 09/07/2017 11:16:19 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Zathras
LOL Actually I’ve been following quakes since the 80’s Its a hobby of mine

So then your earthquake predictions do *not* involve a crystal ball? What about a Ouija (weegee) board?

Image result for ouija board gif

:)

72 posted on 09/07/2017 11:16:59 PM PDT by ETL (See my FR Home page for a closer look at today's Communist/Anarchist protest groups)
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To: silverleaf

Do they say how exactly a CME causes earthquakes?


73 posted on 09/07/2017 11:17:30 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

JUST IN: #Earthquake kills at least two people in southern Mexican state of Chiapas - interior minister https://t.co/dqOudTVGP8


75 posted on 09/07/2017 11:21:58 PM PDT by weston (SO HERE'S THE STORY: As far as I'm concerned, it's Christ or nothing!)
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To: Zathras
You skipped a spot


76 posted on 09/07/2017 11:22:33 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: silverleaf
Yes they claim the big quake off fukushima Japan followed a CME and we are experiencing a large geomagnetic storm today

"They" are either out of their minds or somehow trying to make money off this stuff.

77 posted on 09/07/2017 11:22:44 PM PDT by ETL (See my FR Home page for a closer look at today's Communist/Anarchist protest groups)
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To: BenLurkin

Via Twitter: Video from shopping center in the capital of Chiapas, Tuxtla Gutierrez

https://twitter.com/AlertaChiapas/status/906037215272173569


78 posted on 09/07/2017 11:26:07 PM PDT by advance_copy (Stand for life or nothing at all)
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To: advance_copy

THE PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER HAS ISSUED A TSUNAMI THREAT
MESSAGE FOR OTHER PARTS OF THE PACIFIC LOCATED CLOSER TO THE
EARTHQUAKE. HOWEVER... BASED ON ALL AVAILABLE DATA THERE IS NO
TSUNAMI THREAT TO HAWAII. REPEAT. BASED ON ALL AVAILABLE DATA
THERE IS NO TSUNAMI THREAT TO HAWAII.


79 posted on 09/07/2017 11:32:28 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse (America First !)
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To: advance_copy

Upgraded to 8.3 and reports that it was even felt in Austin, Texas. Seriously?


80 posted on 09/07/2017 11:38:55 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Drain the Swamp is not party specific. Lyn' Ted is still a liar, Good riddance to him.)
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