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To: winoneforthegipper

“Not the same fault for sure though, Chile’s is along the nazca and south american subdcution zone.”

Oops! Sorry, made a mistake. I was referring to the fault lines and their connections, which eventually leads to California.


190 posted on 03/11/2010 1:31:11 PM PST by wk4bush2004 (PALIN-BACHMANN, 2012!)
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To: wk4bush2004

Not a problem at all.

That latest 5.8 at that depth was likely felt by the good people down in Chile better than a few of the other more powerful ones earlier.


192 posted on 03/11/2010 1:34:19 PM PST by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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To: wk4bush2004

Speaking of which the USGS came out with there summary report for these quakes.

“Tectonic Summary
The Chile earthquakes of March 11, 2010, 14:39 UTC and 14:55 UTC, occurred in the region of the plate boundary between the Nazca and South America plates, in the aftershock region of the great Chile earthquake of February 27, 2010. The March 11 earthquakes almost certainly occurred as the result of the change of regional stress caused by the February 27 earthquake. Preliminary analyses of their locations and seismic-wave radiation patterns, however, imply that the March 11 shocks occurred as the result of normal faulting within the subducting Nazca plate or the overriding South America plate, unlike the February 27 earthquake, which occurred as thrust faulting on the interface between the two plates. At present, the focal depths of the shocks are not known with sufficient precision to confidently determine within which of the Nazca or South America plate the earthquakes occurred.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2010tsa6.php#summary


194 posted on 03/11/2010 1:38:37 PM PST by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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