Posted on 08/30/2015 8:38:47 PM PDT by JimSEA
OH REEEALY, and here I thought it was caused by inner planetary GOREBAL WARMING GAS.
gee- you mean fracking isn’t the cause?
Mother Earth is just having a high flow day.
And she gets some of those monster zits. Don’t want to be around when they pop.
What! I thought from the earth was hollow and aliens lived there.
We seem constantly to ignore how puny our efforts are in comparison with the actions of nature, how limited our ability to predict what those actions shall be,
On a good day, we humans are along for the ride. On a bad day, we get bucked off or trampled.
I’ve long suggested the Mid-American rift is the cause of the swarm in KS and OK.
The earth is seething with magma, coming out of its wherever.
“Intraplate earthquakes and seismic activity.”
This press release full of misinformation is a prime example of the incompetence of today’s California universities. The New Madrid Fault system and its associated earthquakes IS NOT an example of “intraplate earthquakes” as claimed. They ARE an example of “interplate earthquakes,” because the New Madrid fault is the remnant of an ancient continental rift in the North American Plate which continental drift opened and then closed together again while leaving the divided plate margins of the old rift free to continue colliding and generating seismic activity not unlike other plate boundaries. In other words, the inter-plate activity is occurring between two margins of the same continental plate, which were destined to divide the North American Plate into two separate continental plates, until the rifting was halted by a change in continental drift and the rift became incompletely closed.
The example of the seismic activity at Yellowstone National Park is a different type of activity unrelated to the rifting of the New Madrid Fault or today’s comparable rifting of a smaller East Africa plate from the main African continental plate.
It should also be noted that the major rivers of the North American Plate are located along major fractures in the North American Plate. Examples are the Mississippi River, Ohio River, Wabash River, Missouri River, Red River, and others. Prior to a plate separating from what was to become today’s Europe, spinning around, and then slamming into the North American plate to become its eastern seacoast, the ancient Ohio River ran downstream from the Himalayan sized mountains of present day Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky eastwards to empty into the sea. It was redirected to the Gulf of Mexico much later in time after the continental plate collision along the eastern coasts created the Appalachian mountain ranges.
“I’ve long suggested the Mid-American rift is the cause of the swarm in KS and OK.”
The New Madrid Fault System
Earthquake activity in the New Madrid region is concentrated in an area of weak ancient crust called the Reelfoot Rift. About one billion years ago the
continent began to rift apart in this region, but the rifting never completed. What remains is a weak zone in the continent which has been reactivated by present-day stresses in Earth, resulting in seismic activity.
http://www.eas.slu.edu/eqc/eqc_publ/Flyers/PDFs/NMstructure.pdf
Mechanism Behind “Strange” Earthquakes
I figured it was a strange earthquake machine, but your post works as well.
Liquid hot magma if you don’t send me ONE MILLION DOLLARS!
Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man...
It’s obvious the number of people on the edges are causing it to shift and could possibly lead to the entire country sinking.
I know what you’re thinking, but it is as plausible as global warming.
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It is! The Illuminatti obviously planted this story to throw those of us in the know off the scent! Not gonna work! No sirree...
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