| 8 | “As a side note, is there any relevance to the major earthquakes/tsunami events 2 weeks prior, and could that have affected underwater land masses and locations in the area of the SanFran collision?” |
I'm not a geologist, but I did sleep at a Holiday Express last night!
According to the DMA chart in post #522, above, the reported soundings in the vicinity of the grounding area were 6,000 feet (give or take). To my knowledge, a terrestrial based geologic upward change in topography of over a mile in height occurring within only a two week period, either on land or under the sea, is simply unheard of anywhere in the geologic history of the earth.
Furthermore, it begs credibility that such a change could occur today, unnoticed by the thousands of seismic sensors around the globe, which would have pinpointed such an event. Keep in mind that these seismic sensors are sensitive enough to detect and pinpoint a magnitude 1 quarry blast.
I don't give it ANY credibility, but in the interests of fair disclosure, there are some who are speculating that such shifts occurred (at least near the quake epicenter, 3,557 statute miles away from where the submarine grounded) and according to the link below, the U.S. Navy is involved in answering the question as to just how much under sea vertical and horizontal shift in topography actually occurred as the result of the earthquake (not the tsunami).
See "U.S. Navy surveying waters near tsunami epicenter", for example.
--Boot Hill
The collision occurred in the Caroline Islands and that area hasn't been geologically active since 100-300 million years ago.
BTW, welcome aboard, newbie!
--Boot Hill