Earthquakes?
Oct 19, 2009
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Earthquake Questions
Does anyone else think that it’s not just a coincidence that within the past couple weeks 3 strong earthquakes have shaken three different place. Japan, San Francisco, and no Indonesia.
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3 comments
critters on October 19, 2009 at 6:42 am
Probably wasn’t a coincident at all. When one plate shifts, it will rub against another plate, or slip a bit underneath another plate or perhaps ride on top of another plate. In each case there has to be repercussions of some kind.
In two of the earthquakes (Japan and San Francisco) the plate involved was the Pacific Plate. What actually happened, I don’t know. The Pacific Plate was hit or moved and earth quakes occurred on both the west and east sides of the plate.
Indonesia is not on the Pacific Plate, it appears to be on the Eurasian plate and there is a buffer plate ( the Philippine Plate) between the Pacific and Eurasian Plates. The quake in Indonesia may have been a chain reaction. If there had been some minor slippage in the fault area around Somalia and then the shake in Japan occurred , maybe that was all that was needed to cause a slightly bigger shake in Indonesia.
Gwenilynd on October 19, 2009 at 6:42 am
All of the places that you mentioned are on the same tectonic plate. So it may not be a coincidence at all.
A.Ganapathy India on October 19, 2009 at 6:42 am
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