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1 posted on 04/17/2014 12:21:35 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan
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To: BuckeyeTexan

If it happened today, Liberals would blame either Tea Party members, Bush, global warming/climate change or fracking and support throwing a few billions to see what caused it and how to prevent it.


2 posted on 04/17/2014 12:32:25 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

Catastrophicism.

A Biblical world view led to tectonic theory.


3 posted on 04/17/2014 12:33:21 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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The Alaskan Earthquake of 1964 provided a lot of evidence for the theory of plate tectonics, a new refinement of the older continental drift theory. It gave dramatic evidence of what happens at subduction zone plate boundaries. One thrust fault moved the shoreline up some 38 feet and established a new shoreline a couple hundred yards away.

Similar earthquakes happen frequently often just off shore but eventually one will happen again in an urban area. That will certainly be labeled catastrophic and will be for those effected.


7 posted on 04/17/2014 12:52:35 PM PDT by JimSEA
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"The theory of plate tectonics is a relatively new scientific concept"

Depends on what you mean by "new". I remember learning about this in 1957.

13 posted on 04/17/2014 4:16:21 PM PDT by I am Richard Brandon
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I remember it vividly; we were on the Ginza in Tokyo at the time. All up and down the street, we could hear people saying, "Takusan oki-na jishin! Arasuka ni!"

("Very big earthquake! In Alaska!")

14 posted on 04/17/2014 5:07:58 PM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias... "Barack": Allah's current ally...)
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