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Interesting website link to maps of world incidents
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My computer won't load the third one but the first two maps are very interesting. I had a geography book with similar maps, I love maps!
On the first map I see the Cascade range clearly marked in the subduction zone; we live on a cascadian mountain. We moved here after a big earthquake in Los Angeles (not the San Andreas fault, the Northridge quake) but knew were not moving out of an earthquake zone. Since we have lived here however we have only felt one earthquake. Everyone here acted like it was the most amazing thing, and to Hubby and it it was NOTHING. 4 point something. Those are no biggy. Almost fun.
Here they are real worried along the coast with that Juan de Fuca plate. Apparently it can create a tsunami like occurred in Japan. I would imagine it is conceivably possible many places along the ocean?
On the first map I see the Cascade range clearly marked in the subduction zone; we live on a cascadian mountain. We moved here after a big earthquake in Los Angeles (not the San Andreas fault, the Northridge quake) but knew were not moving out of an earthquake zone. Since we have lived here however we have only felt one earthquake. Everyone here acted like it was the most amazing thing, and to Hubby and it it was NOTHING. 4 point something. Those are no biggy. Almost fun.
Here they are real worried along the coast with that Juan de Fuca plate. Apparently it can create a tsunami like occurred in Japan. I would imagine it is conceivably possible many places along the ocean?
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Ok, so earthquakes still happen. Stan and Holly Deyo keep real good track of those things if you want to know and they are VERY credible and reliable folks.
So, why do these things keep happening? Do I know for certain? No but there are at least some good things to consider to explain some of the issues.
Let's start by remembering that our earth has been held in its relationship to the rest of the solar system and the cosmos for quite some time, RELIABLY SO if you ask me. What causes that?
Force. What kind of FORCE? Well now you need a physics degree to understand those forces, (which I do NOT have) but I do "get it" when we talk about this in a "general sense".
Our moon moves around us all month and all year. Whatever forces hold it in place are what we generally consider to be the causes of tides, etc. So, do these forces exert force on the continents and globe on which we reside? My answer is, of course they do. Nothing in the cosmos is static. It is all held together in a rather neat and orderly manner but tends toward disorder in order to continue. It would seem to me that this tendency toward disorder is partly responsible for the observations we make when the idea of earthquakes and other severe actions occur.
I have intentionally avoided any "philosophical" approach here and that is because I am not wanting to "go there" on this topic.
I will however relate a short story told by Stephen Hawking in his book "A Brief History of Time". He had completed his lecture to a group of folks in England and at the end an older woman stood up in the back of the room and declared "young man, everything you just said is a bunch of bunk. We all know that we are merely a speck in the eye of a great tortoise" to which Mr. Hawking replied, "This may be so madam, but can you please tell me on WHAT is that tortoise standing?". The discussion ended there.
Have a nice day. This one is a bit more fun.
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So, why do these things keep happening? Do I know for certain? No but there are at least some good things to consider to explain some of the issues.
Let's start by remembering that our earth has been held in its relationship to the rest of the solar system and the cosmos for quite some time, RELIABLY SO if you ask me. What causes that?
Force. What kind of FORCE? Well now you need a physics degree to understand those forces, (which I do NOT have) but I do "get it" when we talk about this in a "general sense".
Our moon moves around us all month and all year. Whatever forces hold it in place are what we generally consider to be the causes of tides, etc. So, do these forces exert force on the continents and globe on which we reside? My answer is, of course they do. Nothing in the cosmos is static. It is all held together in a rather neat and orderly manner but tends toward disorder in order to continue. It would seem to me that this tendency toward disorder is partly responsible for the observations we make when the idea of earthquakes and other severe actions occur.
I have intentionally avoided any "philosophical" approach here and that is because I am not wanting to "go there" on this topic.
I will however relate a short story told by Stephen Hawking in his book "A Brief History of Time". He had completed his lecture to a group of folks in England and at the end an older woman stood up in the back of the room and declared "young man, everything you just said is a bunch of bunk. We all know that we are merely a speck in the eye of a great tortoise" to which Mr. Hawking replied, "This may be so madam, but can you please tell me on WHAT is that tortoise standing?". The discussion ended there.
Have a nice day. This one is a bit more fun.
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