Thursday, March 6, 2008

Slow earthquake rumbles NW US and Vancouver

For some time now, there has been a slow, deep delamination that propagates from the south to the north, out in the Vancouver area. Nobody feels it, but the seismometers record a lot of rumbling. Now, there are more real-time GPS instruments to catch 'the wave'. As usual, there is the constant wondering if this means anything, but nevertheless, it is fascinating natural phenomenon.

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