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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 03:33 AM
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A 6.4 quake off the Oregon coast
early this morning and a 6.2 in the Queen Charlotte islands yesterday.
The Pacific rim is shaking.
http://www.iris.edu/seismon/
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 03:40 AM
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1. New Hampshire shook it up
:)
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and-justice-for-all Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 03:42 AM
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2. Yes dear, we live on an active planet...
There is nothing that can be done about it. Give it 3.4million years and then there will a new super continent like Pagea. When that conveyor stops, life on earth will be no more.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 05:57 AM
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3. You do have a point
All life is dynamic.
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Thothmes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 08:06 AM
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4. The remnants of the Juan de Fuca
plate slowly sub-ducting under the North American plate. Will continue until the Juan de Fuca plate completely disappears, in a few million years.
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