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Originally posted by tauristercus
In my opinion, this is mind-boggling news to digest as I've always thought of the individual continental plates as being relatively stable over millions of years........
Originally posted by tauristercus
Originally posted by CaptainBeno
reply to post by tauristercus
Anyway, I'm not looking forward to the "Movement" part.
I'm just wondering if the breakup would be a slow and gradual one, releasing stress and energy over a long period of time or whether it could reach a critical point whereby the break apart is more "instantaneous" i.e. over a much smaller time frame and releasing all the energy at once.
I would tend to think that "instantaneous" wouldn't be the best case scenario for the planet
Originally posted by LightAssassin
reply to post by loam
Expanding Earth theory?
Originally posted by DaesDaemar
This is very interesting indeed! If this free's up the eastern part of the plate, allowing it's movement speed to increase, would that then put more stress at the fracture point, allowing the it to fracture faster as the eastern plate moves away quicker and quicker?
Could this be an event that can happen quickly, any experts in here?
Originally posted by Agit8dChop
reply to post by winofiend
i dont think this is all related to pressure, i get the feeling there's forces underneath the plates pushing them in a direction, if the pressure builds up or not, these forces underneath seem to unleash in bursts.
Originally posted by pravdaseeker
The recent quakes, ( much smaller), in the state of Victoria were interesting to note.. hmm?
Originally posted by Kastogere
Yep, just from the way I understand it, the core of the earth is heating up....then you have extra energy being redistributed to the surface causing a amplified reaction in the way of volcanism and earthquakes. As far as the plates go, they always move anyway...they were never truly stable. With the increase of energy heaping up from the core you could expect some plate issues to take place such as the one OP is refering to.
Originally posted by St Udio
the other significant thing is most likely the convection currents in the Earth's mantle is causing this plate breakup...
recall that many formally dormant volcanos are suddenly active again, also think about the new ocean that's forming along the North African red-sea-coast, as the land rift splits apart in the area around Ethiopia and Eritera
there are thousands of new thermal vents and underwater 'smokers' all over the oceans of the planet
the Earth's core and mantle is in a time of disturbance which then affects the surface,
but mainstream science is being mum on the topicedit on 27-9-2012 by St Udio because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Saneeto
I'm no geologist, but does this pose a threat to us? I mean, I'm from India..
Originally posted by jaws1975
Continental plate cracking up, record glacial melting, sinkholes on every other block, arguably more volcanic and earthquake activity....yep nothing to see here, just a string of coincidences on just another year!
Originally posted by reeferman
reply to post by tauristercus
well..
the earth is growing..
Originally posted by Silcone Synapse
This has me wondering-maybe an event similar to this occured in the distant past and resulted in the "great flood"we read about in so many ancient cultures.
It would take something that massive to say,fill the medditerranean,which did happen approx 8-10 thousand years back.
The mess we seem to be making of our world almost makes me think we deserve a great flood.
I bet the snapping of an entire tectonic plate deep under the ocean could result in such a flood.
It would be ironic if it happened on dec 21st would it not?
Maybe time to build an ark...
Originally posted by Soloro
reply to post by tauristercus
This is the part of geologic activity that I think many people and academics have ignored. The dynamism of plate tectonics, and the effects.
Originally posted by violet
Thanks for posting this star and flag
If the earthquakes have increased since the event then it can't be good. It's rather concerning the Himilayas are impeding the plate moving. Will this push them upwards and cause catastrophic events?
Originally posted by Elienne
So if the Indian/Australian tectonic plate is splitting into two separate plates, how , or would, this affect the great ocean currents? Would the great ocean conveyor belts be affected? Just a thought.
Originally posted by DaesDaemar
reply to post by Dustytoad
I have no clue what this would actually do. Does it put extra pressure against the plate to the north and to the east? Also could it mean new islands or a new rift with new magma coming up?
This is very interesting indeed! If this free's up the eastern part of the plate, allowing it's movement speed to increase, would that then put more stress at the fracture point, allowing the it to fracture faster as the eastern plate moves away quicker and quicker?
Could this be an event that can happen quickly, any experts in here?
I'm no expert but I do know what will happen. The Sunda plate is sinking. It's a separate entity from the Indo/Aust plate. When it goes down Australia moves north and the Indo/Aust plate tilts at India and Pakistan and Australia loses two thirds of it's land mass. Our government hates refugees so one wonders how our own 'refugees' will be treated.
Originally posted by LightAssassin
reply to post by loam
Expanding Earth theory?
:19 The great city split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. God remembered Babylon the Great and gave her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of his wrath.
Originally posted by bottleslingguy
I never understood how mountain ranges could grow to such heights if, as they say, they grow about the same rate as fingernails, yet wind and rain erosion should counter that resulting in a zero gain, right? Also notice the ubrupt changes in the geologic strata; gives a whole new meaning to catastrophism.
Originally posted by lonewolf19792000
reply to post by Dbriefed
:19 The great city split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. God remembered Babylon the Great and gave her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of his wrath.
This is talking about Jerusalem. Jerusalem is sitting on 3 faults, one of which runs all the way down through the middle of Ethiopia and Ethiopia is splitting apart too.
The thing about prophesy, is it's not always literal. Sometimes it's allegorical. Sometimes in prophetical language earthquakes refers to civil and social upheaval, which we are seeing all over the M.E. right now but in particular Israel as there are 3 camps. Zionists, nonzionist religious jews and muslim. Social upheavels tearing the city into 3 camps.
Originally posted by Dbriefed
Originally posted by lonewolf19792000
reply to post by Dbriefed
:19 The great city split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. God remembered Babylon the Great and gave her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of his wrath.
This is talking about Jerusalem. Jerusalem is sitting on 3 faults, one of which runs all the way down through the middle of Ethiopia and Ethiopia is splitting apart too.
The thing about prophesy, is it's not always literal. Sometimes it's allegorical. Sometimes in prophetical language earthquakes refers to civil and social upheaval, which we are seeing all over the M.E. right now but in particular Israel as there are 3 camps. Zionists, nonzionist religious jews and muslim. Social upheavels tearing the city into 3 camps.
That is interesting, I didn't know Jerusalem is on 3 faults. We do now know that one quake can trigger a quake in a remote part of the world.
I think it's interesting to see how visions are described, since they often reference technology that ancient man had no way of describing in human terms of the day, and visions seem to be fuzzy metaphors. One vision in Revelations describes military helicopters in animal terms; bodies like scorpions, hair like women, faces like men, spitting fire.
Originally posted by XPLodER
Sumatra quake was part of crustal plate breakup: Study shows huge jolt measured 8.7, ripped at least 4 faults
Read more at: phys.org...
Seismologists have known for years that the Indo-Australian plate of Earth's crust is slowly breaking apart, but they saw it in action last April when at least four faults broke in a magnitude-8.7 earthquake that may be the largest of its type ever recorded. The great Indian Ocean quake of April 11, 2012 previously was reported as 8.6 magnitude, and the new estimate means the quake was 40 percent larger than had been believed, scientists from the University of Utah and University of California, Santa Cruz, report in the Sept. 27 issue of the journal Nature.
Read more at: phys.org...
phys.org...
while the plate may be cracking,
i dont think it happens in a short time span
The new study concludes that the magnitude-8.7 quake and an 8.2 quake two hours later were part of the breakup of the Indian and Australian subplates along a yet-unclear boundary beneath the Indian Ocean west of Sumatra and southeast of India – a process that started roughly 50 million years ago and that will continue for millions more.
Read more at: phys.org...
xploderedit on 27-9-2012 by XPLodER because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Melbourne_Militia
Couple things I find interesting here -
1) The Indo_Australian plate moving enmasse in the same northeasterly direction. But because of the Eurasian landmass the indian section is slowing down while the Australan portion is speeding up. Who would have thought it would have broken this way? You'd think that a plate would "tear" and move in different directions.
2) Been told Australia moves north at the rate of 1 metre per year......by releasing the "anchor" holding it back surely it must mean Australia will now move faster northwards?
3) This in turn would mean Papua New Gunea rising up higher as it gets pushed against the Philliping and Pacific Plates. I beleive longer term this would cause Australia and New Guinea to join up once again as the northern part of Australia rises up out of the sea due to the collision of plates in this area.
4) Might it cause the Western part of Australia to dip lower? i.e. down under the sea? Pretty sure Edgar Cace mentioned this?