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2005-10-11 Afghanistan-Pak-India

GREAT HIMALAYAN QUAKE `YET TO COME'

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Posted by DanNY 2005-10-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Maybe the Himalayas just need a few more mult-bomb nuke tests like the Paks and Indians did a few years ago to loosen some sticking rocks. Maybe they could turn a few more mountains WHITE.

Posted by 3dc 2005-10-11 00:46|| 2005-10-11 00:46|| Front Page Top

the absence of any great earthquake in the region in the past century may have something to do with a period of dormancy

The quakes may be in a period of "dormancy" (read: plates stuck together at some point for a long time) but the movement of the plates sure as hell ain't.

Moving tectonic plates that are locked together at some point will eventually build up so much tension that the sticking point lets loose [see: Boxing Day Tsunami], and the plates spring back to the positions they would have been in had they not gotten hung up on each other. All at once.

I don't even want to speculate what an 8+ quake in that area would do, but I'm sure it would involve lots of bodies. :-(

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