Haiti Earthquake: Geophysicists stunned by “strange” earthquake (January 12, 2010)

Haiti Earthquake: Geophysicists stunned by “strange” earthquake (January 12, 2010)

“The magnitude 7 earthquake that struck Haiti yesterday is the strongest earthquake to hit the region in more than two centuries, geologists say. While earthquakes are not uncommon in the Caribbean island country, the recent Haiti earthquake's intensity surprised experts. "It's quite strange" from a historical perspective, said Julie Detton, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey. Haiti is part of the island of Hispaniola, which also hosts the Dominican Republic. The last major earthquake to strike Haiti's side of the island was in 1860. Yesterday's initial earthquake, which struck at about 5 p.m. local time yesterday, spawned dozens of aftershocks, about 15 of which were magnitude 5 or greater. Whether the earthquake could trigger other major quakes is not known. "It's not something that we can project is going to happen," Detton said. "But definitely if you're moving two plates in one area, you're building up stress and strain in another."

The Haiti earthquake was caused by the release of seismic stresses that had built up around two tectonic plates. The motions of these plates create what are known as strike-slip faults, where two sections of Earth's crust are grinding past each other in opposite directions. "The Caribbean plate is moving eastward with respect to the North American plate," Detton said. When the stresses along the fault lines reach a certain point, they can be released in bursts of energy that cause earthquakes, although it's unclear when the energy will be discharged as a series of small quakes or as one big temblor. Since Haiti is very close to the boundary where the Caribbean and North American plates meet, fault lines linked to the plates' movements run right through the country, Detton said.” -National Geographic

Not your typical earthquake?: Almost all churches in Haiti were destroyed

• “Hell came up, 500,000 feared dead” –Drudge Report Headline
• “The cathedral, the archbishop's office, all the big churches, the seminaries have been reduced to rubble," Archbishop Bernardito Auza, the apostolic envoy to Haiti, told the Vatican news agency FIDES.” –Breibart News, Associated Press

nope, sorry, don't buy it, national geographic...
you may have pretty photos and a slick layout,
but all that tectonic plate stuff is 4th grade science...
a suggestion: research weather modification (or
bio-engineering as it has been spun) as it pertains
to controlling the jet stream, scalar weaponry,
and "assisted" aspects of natural disasters, intensifying them...
put your results, with pretty pictures, in your slick layout
and tell the people the truth

Hippie

sadly
the people don't want to know...and that is why they aren't told

you get what you look for and they are looking for a nice rational explanation
so they can continue to sleep

did you ever know someone who continually hit the snooze button..?
that's where most of humanity is right now

more and more people question things like this as the slight sarcasm of the news articles show. People are looking at Japans earthquake, China's and adding up just what was damaged and the strange occurances around the earthquakes.


some people are frightened by what is going on, not everyone can face it -

Well I am glad I am awake and know what is going on. I am ready if someone comes to me with questions, I just hope they can accept some answers.