Lost Cause
It's a wrap!
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In advance of our slow doom, I'd would like to say it's been fun laughing, thinking, and fighting with you all.
Now I have to go out and tie down my motorcycle!
(03-26) 13:36 PST PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) --
A widespread earthquake is taking place beneath the Northwest, slowly unleashing energy that may be equivalent to the magnitude 6.7 Nisqually quake that rocked the region two years ago, experts say.
But the so-called "silent" or "slow" earthquake is releasing that energy over weeks rather than in the sharp, seconds-long jolts of a typical quake. No one can feel it.
The event started Feb. 26 and seems to be sputtering to a halt far beneath northwest Washington and southwest British Columbia. The quake originated beneath the Strait of Juan de Fuca near Friday Harbor, Wash., and Victoria, British Columbia.
Recently discovered silent quakes, which can only be detected with sensitive instruments, aren't as harmless as they may seem.
Scientists say they may be adding to the tremendous pressure in an area where the brittle rocks of two tectonic plates are locked offshore.
Evidence shows that every few hundred years, the jammed plates release that stress in huge magnitude 8 or 9 earthquakes that can rattle the entire Northwest coast and generate lethal tsunamis. The last such powerful subduction-zone quake occurred about 300 years ago.
http://www.ess.washington.edu/recenteqs/Quakes/quakes0.html
R.I.P. Lost Cause.
Now I have to go out and tie down my motorcycle!
(03-26) 13:36 PST PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) --
A widespread earthquake is taking place beneath the Northwest, slowly unleashing energy that may be equivalent to the magnitude 6.7 Nisqually quake that rocked the region two years ago, experts say.
But the so-called "silent" or "slow" earthquake is releasing that energy over weeks rather than in the sharp, seconds-long jolts of a typical quake. No one can feel it.
The event started Feb. 26 and seems to be sputtering to a halt far beneath northwest Washington and southwest British Columbia. The quake originated beneath the Strait of Juan de Fuca near Friday Harbor, Wash., and Victoria, British Columbia.
Recently discovered silent quakes, which can only be detected with sensitive instruments, aren't as harmless as they may seem.
Scientists say they may be adding to the tremendous pressure in an area where the brittle rocks of two tectonic plates are locked offshore.
Evidence shows that every few hundred years, the jammed plates release that stress in huge magnitude 8 or 9 earthquakes that can rattle the entire Northwest coast and generate lethal tsunamis. The last such powerful subduction-zone quake occurred about 300 years ago.
http://www.ess.washington.edu/recenteqs/Quakes/quakes0.html
R.I.P. Lost Cause.
