BREAKING: Another Quake In Maine. WTF? | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 22258555 United States 12/04/2012 08:59 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.wcsh6.com] Quoting: Veranidae NEAR WATERBORO, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- Tuesday morning got off to a shaky start in York County. An earthquake with a magnitude of 2.3 was detected by the U.S. Geological Survey at 6:11 a.m. It was centered about 6 kilometers south of Lake Arrowhead near the town of Waterboro at a depth of nearly 5 kilometers below the surface. Soon after it hit, email and social media messages began pouring into NEWS CENTER from people who felt the earthquake. Nearly two month earlier, another earthquake measuring 4.0 hit in almost the same area. USGS seems to have removed it hmmm...methane pressure building or effects from movement of the north american craton most likely. Or arseholes are fracking and further destabilizing the situation. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 22258555 United States 12/04/2012 11:15 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It's called glacial rebound. As more ice melts in northern Canada the quakes will increase until balance is achieved. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 12073690 Not quite sure on that one, the locations of the recent quakes in Maine are near the coast. Look at a glacial rebound map of North America, Maine is only low risk at the northern most border to Canada. |
aldpam User ID: 29036208 United States 12/04/2012 11:24 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It's called glacial rebound. As more ice melts in northern Canada the quakes will increase until balance is achieved. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 12073690 Not quite sure on that one, the locations of the recent quakes in Maine are near the coast. Look at a glacial rebound map of North America, Maine is only low risk at the northern most border to Canada. Actually I live in Lake Arrowhead where the last quake and the 4.0 in Oct was located, and I am no where near the coast. I'm about 30 miles inland, in a lakes region. In my area alone there are 4-5 lakes, Arrowhead, Little Ossipee, Sherbourne, and I'm not sure of the other names. These quakes make me wonder if there is something going on beneath the lakes? Maybe it was all one large lake before? |
Veranidae (OP) User ID: 26743899 United States 12/04/2012 12:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The USGS puts us in a reasonably low risk region. But then again, they list Iowa as a no-risk region; And it enjoyed the 1895 6.8. So I have no idea how to interpret these local events. The Sable Island gas fields aren't too far away, as the crow flies. I'd be curious to know what information is being shared internally by the geologists that monitor that project. |