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12/14/2012 12:05 PM
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Report Copyright Violation | Catalina Island & So Cal Tsunami Threat . " With a strong enough jolt - a 7.6 -magnitude earthquake - the seafloor under Catalina Island could be violently thrust upward, causing a tsunami along the Southern California coast, according to researchers at the University of Southern California." [ link to www.spacedaily.com] " Sizable earthquake strikes off Pacific coast near Catalina Island " "... 163 miles south-southwest of Avalon in an area of shallow faulting where “the Pacific (tectonic) plate moves to the northwest with respect to the North America plate …” according to a USGS statement. [ link to www.swrnn.com] . |
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12/14/2012 12:08 PM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Catalina Island & So Cal Tsunami Threat A 7.6 ist roughly 60 times more powerful than a 6.4 like it happened today. That's quite a difference, heh? |
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12/14/2012 12:41 PM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Catalina Island & So Cal Tsunami Threat .
" Catalina Island itself exists due to earthquake-related uplift
on a geologic structure known as a restraining bend,"
" "Bends in the fault trace produce regions where earthquake stresses
cause the sea floor to pop up and generate a tsunami. "
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12/14/2012 12:43 PM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Catalina Island & So Cal Tsunami Threat
No tsnuami's will happen. I live in San Bernardino county...did not feel a thing cause it was off the coast. Just our area letting off a little pressure...no biggie...relax everyone..... |
