Are there any major quake faults under the great lakes area? - under the hospices
I say no, and my son said yes.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Under The Hospices Are There Any Major Quake Faults Under The Great Lakes Area?
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No, no, they are not. The North American borders the west end of the United States (outside of the continental shelf), South America, Canada, and extends thousands of miles from the center of the Atlantic.
The system of large earthquake area is the San Andreas Fault in California () transform boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American plate. Washington, Oregon, and the experience of the earthquake, although much smaller, but they also have volcanoes, all) in the area of the Cascadia subduction related (subduction of the Juan de Fuca plate - Going Under - the North American Plate.
Intracrustal earthquake (no limits) are very rare. There are certain areas, such as that of the New Madrid fault near St. Louis and the northern areas are more susceptible to these unusual tremor, but the Great Lakes region is very isolated from seismic activity. So much so that I am risking my experiences and say that there is almost no possibility that it would feel a seismic never be big enough - even you who are not acclimatizedfor them, like me and my family in San Diego. But they do not know (something like you and tornadoes, I think ...).
The most exciting thing happening in the survey of the Great Lakes region, glacial rebound as the earth grows very slowly, because the bees have been pushed down in the lithosphere (the area below the crust), because the weight of thousands of years, huge glaciers. Now that the glaciers are gone, the floor is "floating" back to the surface as if you had a weight of an object floating in the lake - it will float higher.
So ... Yes, I'm afraid your son is not in this case.
I think not.
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