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peterbj7
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« on: March 25, 2011, 09:10:46 AM »
New Zealand, Japan, and now Burma.  If I lived on the Pacific rim I'd be getting nervous.  Where's next?
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« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2011, 09:19:56 AM »
Burma's not in the ring of fire Wink 
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« Reply #2 on: March 25, 2011, 09:55:09 AM »
It's all leading up to December 2012. 
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« Reply #3 on: March 25, 2011, 10:06:09 AM »
Quote from: clover on March 25, 2011, 09:19:56 AM
Burma's not in the ring of fire Wink 

It's not far off it, maybe (I haven't checked) just one plate away.  As tectonic pressures are released there is a knock-on effect on the next plate.
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« Reply #4 on: March 25, 2011, 10:15:15 AM »
Amazing....so we can that expect that earthquake in Burma to transfer to where?Huh Iran? Israel?  Or does it go north?  Keep me filled in...I'm ready to book another vacation.


http://scienceray.com/earth-sciences/geology/san-andreas-fault-mega-thrust-earthquake-2010/
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« Reply #5 on: March 25, 2011, 10:30:13 AM »
I'm (obviously) no expert on this stuff, but I do know that tectonic stresses do sometimes transfer long distances, and that when there is a cataclysmic release of tension/pressure in one place (usually an earthquake) the tension/pressure transfers to other places and makes an event there more likely than it had been.  Specifically I've read that the likelihood of more earthquakes in the vicinity of Japan is now greater than before, though just where the "vicinity" is I don't know.
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« Reply #6 on: March 27, 2011, 07:42:08 AM »
It's all voodoo Peter Wink

http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2011/03/does-japan-quake-made-us-quake-more-likely
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« Reply #7 on: March 29, 2011, 07:09:54 AM »
cataclysmic release of tension/pressure in one place

hmph, havent had one of those in a while!!!! Grin
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