Posted on 08/07/2019 3:47:30 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A gaping hole in a dying tectonic plate beneath the ocean along the West Coast of the United States may be wreaking havoc at Earth's surface, but not in a way most people might expect.
The researchers in the new study aren't the first to suggest that the Michigan-size Juan de Fuca (pronounced "wahn de fyoo-kuh") plate has a tear. But thanks to a new, detailed dataset, they're the first to say so with certainty.
The Juan de Fuca plate is long, stretching about 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) along the Pacific Northwest coast, from Vancouver Island, Canada, to Cape Mendocino, California. "No part of it is above the water. It's a total oceanic plate" that's subducting, or diving beneath another plate, in this case the North American plate (a continental plate), Hawley said.
From 2011 to 2015, scientists boated out over different parts of the Juan de Fuca plate, dropped ocean-bottom seismometers underwater and let these sensors collect seismic data from earthquakes all over the world for a year.
The research is a "thought-provoking idea paper," said Ray Wells, a research geologist emeritus with the U.S. Geological Survey in Portland, Oregon, who was not involved with the study.
"I'm happy to see more data indicating a hole in the Juan de Fuca plate," Wells told Live Science in an email. "The coincidence of the hole with the location of a subducted zone of weakness in the Juan de Fuca plate is interesting and could help to produce a tear."
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California tumbles in to the sea ???
Thank you for the link to the original article.
GOOGLE SUCKS.
The Google link supplied by the OP is generic, does not go to the article.
GOOGLE SUCKS!
Charlotte Flair has done nothing to deserve this! Bow down to the Queen!
“Parts of the Juan de Fuca have been slowly melting under eastern parts of the United States for Milena. “
Global warming?
That’s fine for Milena but what does it do for his other girls?
Who’s Milena and why does she have such power?
First of all you have to admit/acknowledge that it is Trump’s fault.
From there you have to a lot of fault finding (no pun intended) based upon splinter groups/conservatives/boy scouts, etc.
We will then take of the massive government sponsored repair job of pouring countless tons of organic concrete into the tear so as to prevent further damage to the environment. Whales and other sea mammals will need to be escorted around the construction zone. This will obviously cost trillions of dollars, decades in time and will only be performed by qualified union employees. (we will need to import a lot of unskilled labor. . . .well
Carbon neutral adhesive type should fix it.
By how many units and what measure?
I think I’m just realistic and honest. But I don’t answer to you so have a nice day.
This plate has been subducting foreons. It is well known as responsible for high grade coal in the adjacent front range and limited coal bed methane. I really struggle to see how real time monitoring of an event taking place over geologic time makes much difference.
Monitoring faults in real time could aid in predicting earthquakes but not in a timeframe for reliable and precise evacuation nor will it stop them. Monitoring is at best a curiosity with enough false positive potential to make it unbelieveable.
Study away. It is a free country.
What assholes, telling us how to pronounce things as if we cared and translating English to metric as if their readership could not understand what they said.
I like Milenia...in the auto-correct world, she’s the bomb!
I walked on the beach a few minutes ago in Oregon just a few miles away from the Juan de Fuca fault. Last I looked, Oregon is on the WESTERN coast of the US.
I walked on the beach a few minutes ago in Oregon just a few miles away from the Juan de Fuca fault. Last I looked, Oregon is on the WESTERN coast of the US.
That’s me! Except for the contemptuous part. But what is it to you anyway?
I like animals more than I like most people too.
Prime waterfront property soon to be entering the market
it is San Andrea’s fault.
Someone will!
the article uses the word “hole”
It would seem the plate has fragmented, a piece broken off.
For there to be a hole, wouldn’t the plate disappear, be gone?
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