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Re: 6.5 Earthquake in Nor. Cal. -still rumbling
Author: Carol L. Voss
Date: 01-10-2010 - 09:43

Castlebridge Wrote:
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> Ray Moen Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Thanks for the web site link, new quake popped
> up
> > as I watched. LOTS of quakes in that spot
> today
> > alone, is there an underwater volcano there?
>
> Ray, looking the earthquake map, it looked like
> there was a fault at right angles to the San
> Andreas, so I did this search
> [www.google.com]
> =opera&rls=en&hs=hwv&q=fault+crescent+city+offshor
> e&btnG=Search&aq=f&oq=&aqi=, which had
> [woodshole.er.usgs.gov]
> pub/html/mendocino.html as the top hit. It seems
> three tectonic plates meet in that area.

That's what the guy at the USGS described on the news last night. 3 plates rubbing together. If you want to read a great book about California geology written in layman's terms, get John McPhee's "Assembling California". It is terrific. One of my aquarium shift mates is a retired PhD USGS marine geologist and he thinks McPhee's work is the best directed to those of us who aren't geologists.
C.

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