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From: shatterbrain, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Is Sandy Andy about to BLOW ??
URL: California on alert as San Andreas fault hints at a quake
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The tiny town of Parkfield in California has something unusual about it. Scientists are always eagerly studying it, because it is right on top of the San Andreas fault, and has been called the ‘earthquake capital of the world’. The famous faultline running from north to south of the Golden State will soon be due for a tremor, and all eyes are on the town as the potential epicentre. Measurements there are behaving a bit oddly, though, according Luca Malagnini, the director of research at the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Italy. He told Live Science that he suspects there will be a quake in the area at some point this year – but not necessarily at Parkfield. |
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From: The Hierophant, [DNS_Address]
Subject: quite a few articles
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have been published in the past 2 days about just this.... |
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From: Redhart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: quite a few articles
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Yes, ye old Parkfield. We'll have to see. It was once thought this was one of the most regularly scheduled quakes coming every 22 yrs...until it didn't. The earth is dynamic, not static. It's possible that the variables that caused this reoccurrence have changed. We won't know until it happens (or doesn't). Last time, scientists competed to set up all kinds of experimental equipment expecting to catch an earthquake as it happened....then were left with none for so many years. Mother nature LOVES to make fun of scientists :) That being said, they do learn something ...even from failure to appear earthquakes. |
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