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The south is SINKING: Giant chunks of the Earth's mantle are falling off and causing quakes across
Daily Mail ^ | 4 MAy 2014 | MARK PRIGG

Posted on 05/04/2016 7:43:25 PM PDT by Fractal Trader

The southeastern United States has been hit by a series of strange unexplained quakes - most recently, the 2011 magnitude-5.8 earthquake near Mineral, Virginia that shook the nation's capital. Researchers have been baffled, believing the areas should be relatively quiet in terms of seismic activity, as it is located in the interior of the North American Plate, far away from plate boundaries where earthquakes usually occur. Now, they believe the quakes could be caused by pieces of the Earth's mantle breaking off and sinking into the planet.

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KEYWORDS: catastrophism; continentaldrift; crust; doomage; doomed; earthchanges; earthquakes; edgarcayce; freepun; mantle; markprigg; mineral; planetx; platetectonics; storkzilla; virginia; virginiabeach; wewillalldie
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1 posted on 05/04/2016 7:43:25 PM PDT by Fractal Trader
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To: SunkenCiv

Catastrophic!


2 posted on 05/04/2016 7:43:49 PM PDT by Fractal Trader
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To: Fractal Trader

Interesting.


3 posted on 05/04/2016 7:44:40 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: Fractal Trader

Global sinking = Large deep lakes. Good.


4 posted on 05/04/2016 7:46:10 PM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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5 posted on 05/04/2016 7:46:16 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Fractal Trader

That sounds serious. I’d be crushed if DC was swallowed into a lake of magma.


6 posted on 05/04/2016 7:46:36 PM PDT by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,)
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To: Fractal Trader

The epicenter was traced to a point below a Michele Obama “Let’s Move” dance platform.


7 posted on 05/04/2016 7:49:02 PM PDT by PTBAA
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To: Fractal Trader

Clinton will blame this on Trump


8 posted on 05/04/2016 7:49:20 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Just a tropical gardener chatting with friends)
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To: Fractal Trader

So the Appalachian mountains should punch through first? That or all that weight of government fat employees in Northern Virginia is crushing the mantle in the region?


9 posted on 05/04/2016 7:49:25 PM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: DesertRhino

I would be faced with a serious dilemma: what f-stop to use?


10 posted on 05/04/2016 7:49:47 PM PDT by Noumenon (Destroy Islam and its followers. The civilization you save may be your own.)
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To: Fractal Trader

So, the crust is being temper-mantle, eh?

Badda bing, badda boom.

Hey, that tomato hurt.........


11 posted on 05/04/2016 7:50:10 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: BenLurkin

Tectonic plate shifting is the greatest recycling method known. Over time that’s is.


12 posted on 05/04/2016 7:51:11 PM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: Da Coyote

Help! We’re all doomed!! Aghhh!!!!

(beats ending up in a nursing home)


13 posted on 05/04/2016 7:52:28 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: Da Coyote

Yo!!!!!!!!!


14 posted on 05/04/2016 7:54:56 PM PDT by Strac6 (The primaries are only the semi-finals. ALL THAT MATTERS IS DEFEATING HILLARY IN NOVEMBER.)
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To: Fractal Trader

Watch everything but CA sink. Bewahahaha.


15 posted on 05/04/2016 7:55:50 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Fractal Trader

Wasn’t this the quake which damaged the Washington Monument?


16 posted on 05/04/2016 8:01:20 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Fractal Trader

Bush’s fault. I do believe I have just made a pun!


17 posted on 05/04/2016 8:04:35 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: dragnet2

Mooch Obama fell off her bike


18 posted on 05/04/2016 8:07:14 PM PDT by bigtoona (The media, GOPe, dems, commie Pope, hate Trump. He is the destroyer we've been waiting for!)
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Tectonic plate shifting is the greatest recycling method known. Over time that’s is.

...and over time, politicians will find a way to tax us in an attempt to off set it.

19 posted on 05/04/2016 8:08:40 PM PDT by Roccus (Fighting POLITICIANS is the true WOT)
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To: Fractal Trader; Gamecock; SaveFerris

So my Costanza mantle quip is gone? Now I’ll need something original. Maybe something about Mickey Mantle?


20 posted on 05/04/2016 8:08:55 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (#GiveTrumpAChance and then pray we don't get fooled again)
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