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To: cogitator
Isn't Papua, New Guinea where the 7+ earthquake struck yesterday? Could the activity of the volcano be connected?
6 posted on 09/09/2002 2:00:20 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: SuziQ
Isn't Papua, New Guinea where the 7+ earthquake struck yesterday? Could the activity of the volcano be connected?

This eruption has been going on for a month, so probably not -- and the earthquake was much closer to a different island in the archipelago. This volcano is on New Britain. (They are connected in the sense that both the earthquakes and the volcanism occur because the islands are part of a subduction arc.)

7 posted on 09/09/2002 2:43:05 PM PDT by cogitator
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