A robotic diver uncovered the hole in a 2015 survey when sonar images captured bubbles rising from the seafloor. Data showed liquid from the spring was coming from the plate boundary line and appeared warmer than the surrounding area
Posted on 04/14/2023 5:28:19 AM PDT by Red Badger
* The hole may be leaking 'fault lubricant' that reduces stress on two plates
* The fault could unleash a magnitude-9 earthquake in the Pacific Northwest
* READ MORE: Extra layer of plate tectonics could be causing tremors in Pacific
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Scientists fear a hole in a 600-mile-long fault line in the Pacific could trigger a catastrophic earthquake that would decimate cities along the northwestern US.
The hole spewing hot liquid sits 50 miles off the shoreline of Oregon, on the boundary of the dipping fault known as Cascadia Subduction Zone, which spans from Northern California into Canada.
This geological feature is capable of unleashing a magnitude-9 earthquake in the Pacific Northwest - and the hole could be the fuel it needs.
The leak was first observed in 2015, but a new analysis led by the University of Washington (UW) suggests the chemically distinct liquid is 'fault lubricant.'
This liquid allows plates to move smoothly, but without it, 'stress can build to create a damaging quake,' researchers said.
The team named the hole, which they describe as a hot spring, 'Pythias Oasis' after the ancient Greek oracle who 'prophesized' with the assistance of the mind-altering gases rising from a hot spring.
'It seems equally hallucinatory to find a spring of low-salinity, high-temperature, mineral-rich water flowing from the seafloor 3,280 feet below the surface off the coast of Oregon,' researchers shared in a statement.
A robotic diver uncovered the hole in a 2015 survey when sonar images captured bubbles rising from the seafloor.
Data showed liquid from the spring was coming from the plate boundary line and appeared warmer than the surrounding area.
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A robotic diver uncovered the hole in a 2015 survey when sonar images captured bubbles rising from the seafloor. Data showed liquid from the spring was coming from the plate boundary line and appeared warmer than the surrounding area
“* The hole may be leaking ‘fault lubricant’ that reduces stress on two plates”
Can’t they replace it with gender fluid?
Gaia is sexually aroused.
Nice! lol. Shove a bunch of trannies down in the hole. That’ll fix it.
Fault lubricant.
Sounds like a Bevis & Butthead episode.
He he ..
You break it you buy it?
These comments are exactly why I come here.
Do we need to check in later? Are all the best comments already made? Or are the best yet to come?
Anyone seen hunter?
Nobody's done something with "slippery when wet" yet. We're waiting....
Take Seattle ... please
Does anyone know how this hole differs from the vents on the ocean floor that we’ve known about for decades?
It happens to be on a fault line..............
“A robotic diver uncovered the hole in a 2015 survey “
Eight years ago ???
“Get a new toy, gotta play with it”
Funding runs out, gotta exaggerate much.
Some FReepers actually believe all this leftist hype, including its genesis of stupidity (which coincidentally was published the same year that they discovered this cited ‘leak’):
“Our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast.” - Kenneth Murphy, FEMA.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one
They found a crack in a crack?
2015??? OH, it’s gotta be all Trump’s “fault”....LOL.
Fill it with Bud Light: “The King of Tranny Fluids”.
IF it will shrink your Johnson, it should shrink the hole.
They found a hole in the bottom of the sea........
Pretty low benchmark for experts these days. Between weather experts, economic experts, gender studies experts, I think our problems are the experts.
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