Free Republic 1st Qtr 2024 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $74,563
92%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 92%!! Thank you everyone!! God bless.

Keyword: faultline

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • Newly ID'd Canadian Fault Line Could Be US Tsunami Risk

    12/09/2023 7:37:18 AM PST · by Navy Patriot · 19 replies
    Newsmax ^ | December 8. 2023 | Jim Thomas
    Scientists have identified a previously unknown fault line in Canada, raising concerns about a potential tsunami threat for over a million Americans in the Northwestern U.S. The fault, named XEOLXELEK-Elk Lake Fault (XELF), spans approximately 50 miles through British Columbia, as reported by the Daily Mail. The fault's discovery, made by a team including Nick Harrichhausen, a postdoctoral researcher at the Université Grenoble Alpes in France, highlights its potential to trigger a significant earthquake in Canada. Harrichhausen stated that the fault's structure could induce a tsunami in the region surrounding the Georgia Basin, affecting Washington State and British Columbia areas.
  • Idaho started shaking March 31. Why hasn’t it stopped? Geologists research Sawtooth fault

    07/08/2020 1:19:51 PM PDT · by Roman_War_Criminal · 24 replies
    Idaho Statesman ^ | 7/6/2020 | Natalia Gutierrez-Pinto & Nicole Blanchard
    The shaking started March 31. That’s when the Sawtooth mountain range in central Idaho trembled with a 6.5-magnitude earthquake — the second strongest ever recorded in Idaho. From that very moment, geologists rushed to the epicenter area — 45 miles west of Challis — to start collecting valuable information that could help them understand what happened. Three months later, the rumbling still hasn’t subsided as aftershocks continue to jar the area. But now scientists have a better idea of what may have led to the major earthquake — and it’s helping them uncover some other secrets buried under Idaho’s soil....
  • Newly identified fault line in California could unleash monster earthquake

    03/10/2017 9:39:38 AM PST · by Lorianne · 36 replies
    source content cannot be posted due to copyright issues | 08 March 2017
    see link in post below
  • Magnitude 4.2 earthquake hits north of Oklahoma City

    01/01/2016 2:16:54 PM PST · by Olog-hai · 23 replies
    Associated Press ^ | Jan 1, 2016 12:40 PM EST | Ken Miller
    A 4.2 magnitude earthquake struck north Oklahoma City early on New Year's Day, the latest in a series of temblors in the area in recent days that's prompted state regulators to call for more restrictions on oil and gas operators. No injuries and only minor damage were reported with the quake, which struck at 5:39 a.m. Friday near Edmond, about 16 miles northeast of Oklahoma City, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. ...
  • New Madrid fault system may be shutting down

    03/14/2009 3:57:46 AM PDT · by decimon · 40 replies · 1,122+ views
    Purdue University ^ | March 13, 2009 | Elizabeth K. Gardner
    The New Madrid fault system does not behave as earthquake hazard models assume and may be in the process of shutting down, a new study shows. A team from Purdue and Northwestern universities analyzed the fault motion for eight years using global positioning system measurements and found that it is much less than expected given the 500- to 1,000-year repeat cycle for major earthquakes on that fault. The last large earthquakes in the New Madrid seismic zone were magnitude 7-7.5 events in 1811 and 1812. Estimating an accurate earthquake threat for the area, which includes parts of Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee,...
  • China's big quake doubles chances of more (curse continues)

    09/11/2008 2:08:12 AM PDT · by TigerLikesRooster · 3 replies · 185+ views
    Reuters ^ | 09/10/08
    China's big quake doubles chances of more Wed Sep 10, 3:36 PM ET China's giant earthquake in May near Chengdu caused so much geologic stress in the Tibetan Plateau that it doubled the chance of more big quakes along three neighboring faults, scientists reported. "The magnitude 7.9 quake on 12 May has brought several nearby faults closer to failure and could trigger another major earthquake in the region," the American Geophysical Union said in a statement. This happens because of a domino-like effect where the movement of one piece of Earth's crust forces another piece to move up, down and...
  • Bredesen does his disaster homework

    09/13/2005 10:10:14 AM PDT · by SmithL · 10 replies · 377+ views
    AP ^ | 9/13/5 | MATT GOURAS
    NASHVILLE - State leaders are studying Tennessee's ability to cope with a huge disaster after watching the trouble New Orleans had dealing with Hurricane Katrina. Tennessee has the potential for a big disaster with a fault line in the western part of the state that historically has produced some of the continent's strongest earthquakes. The last time the New Madrid fault produced a big earthquake almost two centuries ago, Indians reported seeing the Mississippi River running backward and forming new lakes. With the big river running next to Memphis, Gov. Phil Bredesen said he has to make sure the state...
  • Oil Seeping from Ground in Parent's Back Yard

    03/19/2005 4:50:11 PM PST · by The Grim Freeper · 179 replies · 5,114+ views
    Self | 03/21/05 | Laurel Barney
    Today, my mother asked me to come see something in their Los Gatos back yard. She took me out to the corner of their large lot (large for Los Gatos, anyway), and she pointed out to me some black, shiny substance seeping out of the ground in patches, and along a line about 10 feet in length. The last heavy rain had made this substance come to the surface. I said "It looks like oil," and she said she thought so, too. I stuck my finger in it, and it was black, slick, and after I'd rubbed it around to...
  • Downtown LA Fault Line Worries Geologists (Puente Hills fault)

    04/03/2003 7:10:56 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 21 replies · 2,302+ views
    Yahoo! News ^ | 4/3/03 | Andrew Bridges - AP
    LOS ANGELES - A recently mapped, still-active fault line that snakes beneath downtown Los Angeles is capable of generating major earthquakes (news - web sites), but only about once every 2,000 years, according to a new study. At least four earthquakes of estimated magnitudes 7.2 to 7.5 have struck over the last 11,000 years on the Puente Hills fault, which was first mapped just four years ago. A segment of the fault last ruptured in 1987 with a magnitude-6 earthquake (news - web sites). The study is the first to show how often and with how much punch large quakes...