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From: Benj on 14 Jan 2010 00:48
On Jan 13, 7:43 pm, Just Me <jpd...(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> Whoops. ". . . so far west" is what that should say. Maybe Sarah Palin
> and I should enroll together in a refresher geography course. Then
> after class, maybe she'll invite me over to look at Russia from her
> house.


You sound like one of those "educated" democrats who think that Russia
can't be seen from Alaska (Get the quote right. If you are going to
quote Palin then quote her and not SNL) I urge you first take a
freshman course in geography and then to go over to volunteer at the
NOW office as penance for your male chauvinist piggery.

And boy, gimme those liberal credentials too!



From: Benj on 14 Jan 2010 01:02
On Jan 13, 7:15 pm, Just Me <jpd...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Think they're not related?  It's only a coincidence?
>
> Both quakes occurred off the perimeters of the North American plate.
> See the North American plate . . .
>
> http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/images/earth_plates_usgs....

Compare Plates and Quakes:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/


> The smaller Gorda plate off the north coast of California is sub-
> ducting in a northeastwardly direction under the North American plate,
> applying northward and eastward vectors of force to the entire plate.
>
> Haiti is located also on the North American plate over the southern
> subduction zone that extends in fault-lines between a number of the
> "microplates" forming the Caribbean tectonic group of plates, but in
> this case with Haiti, namely, the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault
> zone. It begins under Lake Enriquillo in the Dominican Republic and
> extends so far east as Jamaica.
>
> Clearly, the strike slip quake at Eureka brought sufficient pressure
> against the North American plate to produce another eastward going
> strike slip along the deformation at its southern perimeter.

Interesting theory.
From: Androcles on 14 Jan 2010 01:26

"Benj" <bjacoby(a)iwaynet.net> wrote in message
news:4a61dbb4-7b31-4250-995a-d6b2146e97c0(a)35g2000yqa.googlegroups.com...
On Jan 13, 7:15 pm, Just Me <jpd...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Think they're not related? It's only a coincidence?
>
> Both quakes occurred off the perimeters of the North American plate.
> See the North American plate . . .
>
> http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/images/earth_plates_usgs...

Compare Plates and Quakes:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/


> The smaller Gorda plate off the north coast of California is sub-
> ducting in a northeastwardly direction under the North American plate,
> applying northward and eastward vectors of force to the entire plate.
>
> Haiti is located also on the North American plate over the southern
> subduction zone that extends in fault-lines between a number of the
> "microplates" forming the Caribbean tectonic group of plates, but in
> this case with Haiti, namely, the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault
> zone. It begins under Lake Enriquillo in the Dominican Republic and
> extends so far east as Jamaica.
>
> Clearly, the strike slip quake at Eureka brought sufficient pressure
> against the North American plate to produce another eastward going
> strike slip along the deformation at its southern perimeter.

Interesting theory.

===================================================
Yeah, the next quake is Mexico City- again. I'll let you when later.






From: Mark on 15 Jan 2010 14:06
On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:15:38 -0800 (PST), Just Me wrote:

> Think they're not related? It's only a coincidence?
>
> Both quakes occurred off the perimeters of the North American plate.
> See the North American plate . . .
>
> http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/images/earth_plates_usgs_L_2_jpg_image.html
>
> The smaller Gorda plate off the north coast of California is sub-
> ducting in a northeastwardly direction under the North American plate,
> applying northward and eastward vectors of force to the entire plate.
>
> Haiti is located also on the North American plate over the southern
> subduction zone that extends in fault-lines between a number of the
> "microplates" forming the Caribbean tectonic group of plates, but in
> this case with Haiti, namely, the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault
> zone. It begins under Lake Enriquillo in the Dominican Republic and
> extends so far east as Jamaica.
>
> Clearly, the strike slip quake at Eureka brought sufficient pressure
> against the North American plate to produce another eastward going
> strike slip along the deformation at its southern perimeter.
>
> What else?

Well, just between me and you, I AM Mr. Wonderful, but the art of
declaring it takes timing and occasion
--
Mark inventor/artist/pilot/guitarist/scientist/philosopher/
scratch golfer/cat wrangler and observer of the mundane.
And much much more including wealthy beyond anything you can imagine.
My website http://www.hosanna1.com/
From: Mark on 15 Jan 2010 14:07
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:26:14 -0000, Androcles wrote:

> "Benj" <bjacoby(a)iwaynet.net> wrote in message
> news:4a61dbb4-7b31-4250-995a-d6b2146e97c0(a)35g2000yqa.googlegroups.com...
> On Jan 13, 7:15 pm, Just Me <jpd...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> Think they're not related? It's only a coincidence?
>>
>> Both quakes occurred off the perimeters of the North American plate.
>> See the North American plate . . .
>>
>> http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/images/earth_plates_usgs...
>
> Compare Plates and Quakes:
> http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/
>
>> The smaller Gorda plate off the north coast of California is sub-
>> ducting in a northeastwardly direction under the North American plate,
>> applying northward and eastward vectors of force to the entire plate.
>>
>> Haiti is located also on the North American plate over the southern
>> subduction zone that extends in fault-lines between a number of the
>> "microplates" forming the Caribbean tectonic group of plates, but in
>> this case with Haiti, namely, the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault
>> zone. It begins under Lake Enriquillo in the Dominican Republic and
>> extends so far east as Jamaica.
>>
>> Clearly, the strike slip quake at Eureka brought sufficient pressure
>> against the North American plate to produce another eastward going
>> strike slip along the deformation at its southern perimeter.
>
> Interesting theory.
>
> ===================================================
> Yeah, the next quake is Mexico City- again. I'll let you when later.

There's a reason Haiti is an impoverished and derelict
nation, and you don't know what it is.
--
Mark inventor/artist/pilot/guitarist/scientist/philosopher/
scratch golfer/cat wrangler and observer of the mundane.
And much much more including wealthy beyond anything you can imagine.
My website http://www.hosanna1.com/
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