Posted on 09/02/2002 3:55:45 PM PDT by 2sheep
No, these are small quakes. They relieve a little built-up stress on a small plate. Some time there will be a big one in the region. The big one will follow a period of little activity; a large section of a long fault will let go all at once. Since the portion of the major fault near Alaska let go some years back, the next major release will be somewhere else, and it will be somewhere on the West Coast. Sooner or later.
Ps 11:3 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
Recent news reports are beginning to paint a picture of a bridge, shelf, balcony, deck, cliff, etc. breaking away, often into water, i.e. the foundations being destroyed. San Antonio sits on the Balcones Fault. Lightning struck and destroyed the balcony [Italian balcone, from Old Italian, scaffold, of Germanic origin.] in the church in Brownsville. Watch for the concept. It is interesting, especially in light of Tim Snodgrass' vision, the big quake in the New Madrid area again, the West Coast heating up and two twin quakes of 7.6 and 7.7 qualifying as the second polynesian quake at Fiji. [Discussed more fully on the New Madrid and Earth Changes threads]
Train Derails Over Calif. Cliff
N.J. DECK COLLAPSE LEAVES 31 HURT
Drawbridge in Miami just collapsed...
Bodies Recovered After Oklahoma Bridge Collapse
Texas Bridge Collapses, Strands Islanders
NEW MADRID--WHAT'S IN A NAME?
Odd how cartoons feature the idea of Jellystone, and people laugh, not recognizing it has happened before and could be preparing to do so again.
2Pe 3:4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
That's not funny.5 or 6 years ago we had a shaker at about 6 AM that would have rolled me out of bed but I got wraped up in the sheets. My wife was just coming home from her 5 AM walk with our daughter and she said it looked like the end of the world. Electric lines were arching and transformers were exploding all over town. We turned on KINS radio (the designated warning station) and they were off the air. ( they now have agenerator) We just new it was an 8 or better but guess what...it was a 5.8 ! We learned that day that a 5.8 at 5 miles deep does as much damage as a 7 at 15 miles deep.
Ok, I'll be nice. Now you be real and 'splain to me how your post relates to the topic at hand - which is, BTW, normal geologic activity on a known sub-duction fault.
By the way, I'll bet large amounts of money that the sun will rise, and from it's usual path - tomorrow morning.
LVM - 9.2.02
Just ping me if a natural disaster takes out your state though.
and that is pretty much how your posts sound.
Glad you are finally getting the picture.
LVM
North of the Mendocino FZ the Pacific microplates are still subducting, and in doing so, create the Cascade Range Volcanoes (such as Mt. Saint Helens, Mt. Hood, and the Three Sisters). The subduction zone earthquakes are of much greater concern than the spreading center or tranform zone quakes.
Most structural geologists believe the San Andreas strike slip fault turns westward and into the Mendocino FZ. I think the data are inconclusive. I have personally mapped one branch of the S.A.F. trace heading out into the Point Arena Basin and dying out in to a "horsetail splay." Another, eastern trace appears to die out into the accretionary terranes south east of Cape Mendocino. The last time the northern branch of the S.A.F. ruptured in a significant earthquake was 1906. The last time the Cascade Subduction zone moved in a similar quake was probably in the 1700's. The is some evidence of a tsunami that accompanied the latter quake.
You silly person, that one is easy.
First, due to the sudden release of pressure on the earth's surface, the earth would expand at a very rapid rate.
Second, the returning bodies (can't ignore gravity!) would be smashed, crushed into half their previous weight when their mass meets the rapidly expanding earth.
Third, although the returning bodies lost half their weight, it would be enough to counter act the earth's expansion and cause it to stop the expansion.
Fourth, let us not forget that for every action there is an equal an opposite reaction - the bodies bounce off the earth.
Fifth, oh crap - everybody just jumped at the same time again.
It's late - I should be in bed. But you had to ask the question.
LVM
First estimate the mass of about 2 billion humans (give or take a few hundred million). Then try to determine the distribution of the mass. You will find that the mass is not distributed evenly or randomly, but rather, along the coast of the landmasses, mostly in the temperate and tropical zones. Some of this mass, therefore, will "cancel out." So come up with a center of the remaining mass, probably somewhere in southeast Asia, like southern China. So, for the sake of arguement, I am going to assume the uncancelled mass to be about 7 x 10 10th kilograms.
Next calculate the total mass of the Earth. A good geophysics text book would have that number in the glossary or appendices. I recall it being about 6 x 10 24th kilograms.
The long and short of it is that the mass of the jumping humans is just a very, very small fraction of the mass of the earth. Newton's laws tell us that for every action there is is a equal and opposite reaction. So if a billion people of a certain mass "jump away" from the earth, it will give ever so slightly in proportion to the mass and distance jumped. In other words, you could not even recognize the earth's reaction, and it would appear that nothing happened at all!
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