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Posted on 06/16/2005 11:37:16 PM PDT by bd476
Edited on 06/16/2005 11:53:39 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Carolyn
Might as well rename it Neverland. If that happens, California will get off like Jackson. Off the continent like the New Agers have been predicting.
Which would double the available beachfront, anyway...
From this link:
...The Landers temblor, however, permanently changed the established view of earthquake sequences. In the minutes and days that followed the quake, a substantial number of smaller seismic events occurred well beyond its aftershock zone--as far away as the Lassen Peak area and at the Geysers, about sixty miles north of San Francisco. The largest of these distant events, with a magnitude of 5.4, struck in western Nevada twenty-two hours after the Landers event. Quickly dubbed remotely triggered earthquakes, these outlying seismic events seemed to be different beasts from anything seismologists had previously encountered...
...One possibility is that earthquakes--all earthquakes--represent nothing more than cracks in the earth that grow very, very slowly in response to the forces applied on them, until the cracking process accelerates into a runaway failure. Such a phenomenon would be analogous to cracking in rocks, a process that can be studied in detail in laboratory experiments. The final kick that initiates the runaway process might be infinitesimally small-perhaps nothing more than the final grain of sand landing atop the increasingly unstable sandpile. Or, as in the case of triggered events, it might be an abrupt kick, delivered by the shaking from a distant earthquake.
The idea of earthquakes as the culmination of runaway crack growth is not new. What is new is that we can now quantify the type of shaking that does, and does not, produce additional earthquakes at distant points. Preliminary results suggest that only quakes close to or above magnitude 7.0 will produce remotely triggered events. Seismologists are able to make rocks crack in the laboratory, but we have a very limited ability to test the conditions under which actual faults in the crust rupture. We now know that, at least once in a while, the ground beneath our feet performs its own experiments, giving us important new information about how earthquake ruptures occur. And some of these experiments have been available to us all along. The old data just had to wait for new eyes--eyes aided by years of accumulated scientific understanding.
Thank you.
I remember Landers very well, lived in the Palm Springs area at the time. Quite a ride, "E" ticket to be sure.
First Landers and then an hour later Big Bear, kept us jumping. Did one trigger the other was the question at the time. I do remember talk about the volcanic areas chiming in after that quake (Lassen, Geysers etc). I believe the Geysers were active again this time after the offshore quake. Not sure about the Anza quake prior to that.
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The Russ Brothers run a few more cows than that at Ocean Ranch...
Sale on ski-parka's!
Please add me to your list.
I'd leave, but there is the matter of the spouse, who grew up here. As far as he is concerned, there isn't anyplace else to live. We'll see if he changes his tune after a few more sessions of the state legislature. They're cooking up some stuff that just might shake him loose.
Jim's base of operation is in Fresno, not San Francisco.
Wow. If you live in California, HANG ON!!
OMG!....LMAO!
California has been riding the tilt-a-whirl lately.
Did you guys feel that one.
It may have awaken us for a minute or two when it hit. I don't remember anything.
What about the odds that a Democrat will support the enemies of America?
I don't want to sound like I don't understand this...But I don't understand that post. Can you rephrase the technical stuff for me?
Man that place is jumpin'!
Cool?
Where do you live?
Have you ever looked up at the sky and said "Cool, another F5 tornado"?
If you remember, we had three big quakes in 1992 in less than 24 hours. 6.5 to 7.1 I believe so we have at least one to go. Unnngh...
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