Earth's Quake "Hot Zones"
The island of Hispaniola, which Haiti shares with the Dominican Republic, sits atop two clashing tectonic plates, the North American and the Caribbean, leaving it ripe for a deadly quake of Tuesday's magnitude.
But Hispaniola is by no means the only hotspot for killer quakes, as Columbia University seismologist Dr. Arthur Lerner-Lam explained on "The Early Show Saturday Edition."
The temblor that rocked Haiti is being called "the big one" for that particular area, and it may be out of the woods for awhile, Lerner-Lee says, noting that, once a fault segment ruptures, it kind of re-sets the cycle, meaning it's unlikely to rupture again anytime soon. But there could be other places in that fault system, other segments that didn't rupture this time but could rupture soon. A calculation has to be done, so seismologists will look at this very closely over the next few months."
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Among the places around the world generally thought to be considerable risk are the northern Caribbean, the west coast of Central and South America toward Chile, Greece through the Middle East into Central and Western China, and, of course, California:
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Copyright 2010 CBS. All rights reserved. But Hispaniola is by no means the only hotspot for killer quakes, as Columbia University seismologist Dr. Arthur Lerner-Lam explained on "The Early Show Saturday Edition."
The temblor that rocked Haiti is being called "the big one" for that particular area, and it may be out of the woods for awhile, Lerner-Lee says, noting that, once a fault segment ruptures, it kind of re-sets the cycle, meaning it's unlikely to rupture again anytime soon. But there could be other places in that fault system, other segments that didn't rupture this time but could rupture soon. A calculation has to be done, so seismologists will look at this very closely over the next few months."
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"Family Links" Web site for the Missing
Complete Coverage: Devastation in Haiti
Among the places around the world generally thought to be considerable risk are the northern Caribbean, the west coast of Central and South America toward Chile, Greece through the Middle East into Central and Western China, and, of course, California:
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Don't you wish that these people of (supposed) higher education would just admit that they "just don't know" and that what they are about to say is "just a guess".
It took just about 5 hours for my comment to show up.
by erasmus111 January 16, 2010 10:08 PM EST
"We have a major fault running through here in Vancouver too."
Be a nice girl and we might let you move to the lower 48... ;)
My other message still hasn't shown up, I see.
I would rather stay on the fault line.
Living down there, I would never know when my neighbour was going to shoot me. : )
I posted a comment to you in the "reply to this comment" but like usual it hasn't shown up yet.
Oh... and Bilderberg. Masons. Skull and Bones. Boogy Man. UFO's are real. 9/11 was an inside job.
And, what else..... oh, yeah: Elvis killed JFK then went to the moon to hide out.
That should cover it.
by erasmus111 January 16, 2010 10:08 PM EST
"We have a major fault running through here in Vancouver too."
Be a nice girl and we might let you move to the lower 48... ;)
Forget it. I'll take my chances living on the fault line. : P
With my luck I would step outside and get shot by my neighbour, if I lived down there.