Coming soon ?? Violent Earthquake in the North Atlantic Ocean?? (Pictures and many Links)

Many of us are watching the EQ´s at the Northern Mid Atlantic Ridge, some are worried, some aren´t.

But look at this Picture with 4 Earthquakes as an example, first in this angle:

(Upwards-> Azores Plateau-> Hayes Fracture Zone-> Kane Fracture Zone-> Vema Fracture Zone
[link to imageshack.us]

And now for a more obvious picture:
[link to imageshack.us]

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Volcano-tectonic variability along segments of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between Azores platform and Hayes Fracture Zone: evidence from submersible and high-resolution sidescan sonar data - Out of the Publication Modern Ocean Floor Processes and the Geological Record !GOOGLE BOOK! [link to books.google.de]

Faulting and magmatism at mid-ocean ridges !GOOGLE BOOK! [link to books.google.de]

Fracture Zones in the North Atlantic From Combined Geosat and Seasat Data [link to www.earthbyte.org]
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Azores Plateau:
The isostatic compensation of the Azores Plateau: A 3D admittance and coherence [link to w3.ualg.pt]

Tectonic setting of the Azores Plateau deduced from a OBS survey [link to w3.ualg.pt]

Morpho-tectonic analysis of the Azores Volcanic Plateau from a new bathymetric compilation of the area [link to w3.ualg.pt]

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Hayes Fracture Zone:
See first Google Book and this one Plates, Plumes and planetary Processes [link to books.google.de]
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Cruise Meteor 20 (ME20) 1992
Vessel: Meteor

West Africa

The METEOR cruise M20/3 had two scientific objectives: One research topic was to study the variability of the Mesozoic oceanic crust along two flow-line profiles located north of the Kane and Hayes Fracture Zones. The other research topic was the investigation of the weak magnetic anomalies in the Jurassic magnetic quiet zone north of the Canary Islands. Seismic data with a coverage of 2 400 % were acquired together with magnetic, gravimetric and hydroacoustic data along the two flow-line profiles with a total length of 1 595 km. Magnetic, gravimetric and hydroacoustic measurements were carried out on 31 profiles with a total length of 6 069 km in the Jurassic quiet zone north of the Canary Islands. On 10 of these lines multichannel seismic reflection data (2 138 km) have been acquired.

Although Cenozoic volcanism - equivalents of the Madeira Islands and Cape Verde Islands volcanism - has strongly affected the region of the Mesozoic oceanic crust surveyed by the two flow-line profiles, an at least 74 km wide oceanic crustal structure characterized by a divergent pattern of reflectors having ubiquitous seaward dip was observed. This remarkable structure was found beneath the Madeira-Torre Rise north of the Hayes Fracture Zone...... [50%] [link to www.bgr.bund.de] Located around the middle of the page
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Kane Fracture Zone:
[link to adsabs.harvard.edu]
[link to www.whoi.edu]
[link to media.marine-geo.org]

Depth to Basement and Geoid Expression of the Kane Fracture Zone : A Comparison [link to www.luau.ucsd.edu]

The Crustal Structure of the Kane Fracture Zone From Seismic Refraction Studies [link to www.agu.org]
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Vema Fracture Zone: (Central Atlantic)

Tectonic and Magmatic Evolution of the Median Ridge and the Eastern Ridge-Transform Intersection Domain [link to www.agu.org]

Major structural elements of the Vema fracture zone
[link to ricerca.ismar.cnr.it]

Horizontal Extent of anomalously thin crust near the Vema Fracture Zone from the Three-Dimensional Analysis of Gravity Anomalies [link to www.agu.org]

It would not be GLP without a little weirdness
Madame Blavatsky, The Mid-Atlantic Ridge and Atlantis
So what does 20th century science say? It totally confirms her claimed knowledge about the continuation of the mid-atlantic ridge.... [link to www.blavatsky.net] (And no, I dont want to promote that site, only wanted to add it because of it´s content)
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Recent uplift of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge south of the Vema fracture zone (Article from 1969)
Abstract
The flat depositional floors of three inactive fracture valleys south of the Vema fracture zone are tilted markedly to the west. Core evidence strongly suggests that the sediments filling these valleys were deposited during the Pleistocene in a near-horizontal position by turbidity currents. Uplift of the currently active crest of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is responsible for the tilting; a total uplift of 500-2000 meters is indicated by the data. [link to adsabs.harvard.edu]
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5.9 Quake July 2011 Thread: *** 5.9 Quake - Vema Fracture Zone - Mid-Atlantic Ridge (of course already deleted back then by our USGS Friends *cough*)
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So much for the Information I found you can combine, building a picture, there might be massive Plate Movement in the near future and my personal estimation is a Indonesia like Strength Earthquake will strike very very soon.

I hope this thread does not disappear that fast, because it took me some time to write and format for a good flow of reading, so enjoy.

Edit:

PS: I´m sorry I was not able to compress all the information from the links into one big summary, it´s simply too much, and there are much more better Articles available that would reinforce this picture you can build with the recent Seismic Activity in/on the Northern Mid Atlantic Ridge, but you have to pay for them.

Thank you for Reading.....

Last Edited by Trickster on 01/29/2012 08:49 PM