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Abradolf1948 t1_j9mvyvb wrote

Reply to comment by 96puppylover in Magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes Tajikistan, near border with China by Papppi-56

Same but Tokyo 😬

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GlutenFree_Paper t1_j9n01l7 wrote

In Tokyo right now on vacation but live in San Francisco 😬😬

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Altruistic_Price7572 t1_j9n0rxw wrote

I think I read on you tube some awful scenario that the entire bloody thing could go from California all the way up to Alaska. Don’t think it can loop down to Japan, but 2020 and it’s not getting more gooder.

That would suck, a lot.

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riverrocks452 t1_j9p7n4d wrote

That would be literally unprecedented in what we know of geologic events. It would require a quarter of the circumference of the Pacific plate to rupture all at once, with the rest of the plate behaving nearly completely rigidly: simultaneously weirdly weak at the edge and stupid strong everywhere else. Considering that the plates aren't that different between the edges and centers (including intraplate faults and weak zones), this is profoundly unlikely.

I'm not saying it could never, ever happen- but it's far more likely that a Hollywood movie featuring the above disaster as a plot and a cast of D-list actors will sweep the Oscars. Don't lose sleep over this.

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G_Wash1776 t1_j9ojmxn wrote

The rim of fire loves to set shit off all at once.

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NoodlesrTuff1256 t1_j9ni3s3 wrote

Even the 'heartland' of the US is not immune to quakes. Here in St. Louis and also in our neighbor to the south, Memphis, we wonder what will happen if the New Madrid Seismic Zone reawakens and there's a rerun of what happened in the winter of 1811/1812. Not just one but three massive earthquakes shook our then sparsely populated region at the time. One of the quakes was estimated by scientists to have perhaps been as powerful as an '8' with the other two easily equaling the ones that just devastated parts of Turkey and Syria.

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nurglingshaman t1_j9nvswk wrote

I woke up from feeling the earthquake in Oklahoma a long while back, and I lived in Kansas City! It was scary.

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Gozillasbday t1_j9oh0rh wrote

Was that from fracking though? In actuality I assume those aren't really earthquakes? I have no idea.

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MrYellowFancyPants t1_j9oif3d wrote

If theyre talking about the 2016 one, its alleged that it was from fracking, but scientists also found a previously undiscovered fault line after it happened. IIRC it was also near a known fault line. So while fracking isn't great and can cause earthquakes, the big one in OK may not have been directly caused by it.

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nurglingshaman t1_j9p0z4g wrote

You know, I didn't even think about that! I'm not sure either.

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UncannyTarotSpread t1_j9ogpao wrote

I remember the little quake from the New Madrid fault in 2008, and that was enough to give me respect for it.

Keep sleeping, big fault.

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