Government Warns Eastern USA in serious NEW earthquakes danger! (NJ, NYC and VA in particular danger!)
MyDailyInformer.com
May 5, 2016
A new study using sonic mapping found sections of old rock beneath the US east coast disintegrating; this will cause catastrophic earthquakes. Many are in danger – especially in NJ/NYC and VA.
On Aug. 23, 2011, an earthquake shook several states in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Southeast, including our nation’s capital. It was an unexpected event, with the epicenter near Mineral, Virginia – well within the North American Plate. It was felt by a third of the U.S. population, as far north as Maine and Canada and as far south as Georgia.
Its epicenter was in an unusual location, more than 1,000 miles from the nearest edge of the North American Plate, but the USGS notes this as the most-felt quake in U.S. history.
Until now, the exact cause of the earthquake perplexed geologists. But a new study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research – Solid Earth has an explanation for this event and others in the region.
The magnitude 5.8 earthquake near Mineral, Virginia on August 23, 2011 was felt by so many people it broke a record for earthquakes in the U.S. (USGS)
“This region has not been active for a long time,” Berk Biryol, a seismologist at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and lead author of the new study, said in a press release. “We were intrigued by what was going on and how we can link these activities to structures in deeper parts of the Earth.”
Rather than originating from plate boundaries, as earthquakes in more active regions do, they key to these quakes is beneath the plates and in the Earth’s mantle, researchers found. Their theory is that pieces of the mantle are breaking off, weakening the plate above. And they found that the 2011 earthquake is one of many that are likely to come.
“Our idea supports the view that this seismicity will continue due to unbalanced stresses in the plate,” Biryol said. “The [seismic] zones that are active will continue to be active for some time.”
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