Comments on: about earthquakes http://www.ashdodsurf.com/earthquakes-20/ Be Prepared with Earthquake Kits and Emergency Preparedness Kits Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:45:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: mcconnell http://www.ashdodsurf.com/earthquakes-20/comment-page-1/#comment-3836 mcconnell Sun, 09 Jan 2011 03:03:30 +0000 http://www.ashdodsurf.com/about-earthquakes-3/#comment-3836 Kim, nature has way of breaking down oil that seeps to the top of the ocean's salty surface. Well, most of the epicenters occur beneath Washington rather than out in the waters. Map showing the seismicity history in Washington As for earthquakes in your area and Seattle which are mostly caused by known faults rather than the Juan de Fuca plate doing its thing. Although we do have the Cascadia subduction zone (Juan de Fuca) to account for potential deep earthquakes such as the 2001 Nisqually earthquake that caused damage near Seattle and Olympia, Go here and you find info on the 3 major faults that go under near Seattle from an east to west direction. (page 104); (17 mB!) No, a tsunami will NOT affect a rig out in the Pacific ocean. All it is is wave energy that speed along about 500 mph from the disturbance source (earthquake, underground landslide, etc). A boat out in the distance on open water wouldn't even notice it since the wave would be so small until the depth of the water gets shallower will the wave inversely gets higher and higher as it approaches inland. Just like any other waves you see crashing in as it gets close inland. A matter of energy conservation, as waves slow down energy must be conserved and so the waves height get higher instead. Putting an oil rig out in the Pacific ocean off of Washington won't be a problem if you have questions about earthquakes or sediment. Believe me, not an issue nor a problem. Especially when we had hurricane Katrina that destroyed/damaged 113 offshore oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. As for Washington, they won't be putting rigs Strait of Juan de Fuca, a major shipping lane. Kim, I know about earthquakes, volcanoes, liquidfaction, faults, etc. I spent two years in a master program on geophysics and then switched over to geology for 3 years to get my M.S. degree out of Univ. of Idaho. Check out some of the work I helped in creating a fault map for Idaho. Do a search and type in "McConnell" and you'll find my name. :) I am in support of drilling and mining for more oil so that we can be more dependent on our own natural resources and not from foreign sources to get our oil. Also, Kim, the only natural fuel source I'd be fully in support would be the algae. Not palm oil. Coconut. Corn or any of the foodstuff converted into biodiesel. Simply a bad idea. http://www.autobloggreen.com/tag/algae+biodiesel/ Kim, nature has way of breaking down oil that seeps to the top of the ocean's salty surface.
Well, most of the epicenters occur beneath Washington rather than out in the waters.

Map showing the seismicity history in Washington

As for earthquakes in your area and Seattle which are mostly caused by known faults rather than the Juan de Fuca plate doing its thing. Although we do have the Cascadia subduction zone (Juan de Fuca) to account for potential deep earthquakes such as the 2001 Nisqually earthquake that caused damage near Seattle and Olympia,

Go here and you find info on the 3 major faults that go under near Seattle from an east to west direction.
(page 104);
(17 mB!)

No, a tsunami will NOT affect a rig out in the Pacific ocean. All it is is wave energy that speed along about 500 mph from the disturbance source (earthquake, underground landslide, etc). A boat out in the distance on open water wouldn't even notice it since the wave would be so small until the depth of the water gets shallower will the wave inversely gets higher and higher as it approaches inland. Just like any other waves you see crashing in as it gets close inland. A matter of energy conservation, as waves slow down energy must be conserved and so the waves height get higher instead.

Putting an oil rig out in the Pacific ocean off of Washington won't be a problem if you have questions about earthquakes or sediment. Believe me, not an issue nor a problem.

Especially when we had hurricane Katrina that destroyed/damaged 113 offshore oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. As for Washington, they won't be putting rigs Strait of Juan de Fuca, a major shipping lane.
Kim, I know about earthquakes, volcanoes, liquidfaction, faults, etc. I spent two years in a master program on geophysics and then switched over to geology for 3 years to get my M.S. degree out of Univ. of Idaho. Check out some of the work I helped in creating a fault map for Idaho.

Do a search and type in “McConnell” and you'll find my name.
:)

I am in support of drilling and mining for more oil so that we can be more dependent on our own natural resources and not from foreign sources to get our oil.

Also, Kim, the only natural fuel source I'd be fully in support would be the algae. Not palm oil. Coconut. Corn or any of the foodstuff converted into biodiesel. Simply a bad idea.
http://www.autobloggreen.com/tag/algae+biodiesel/

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