Another interesting
post today...
July 11, 2009
Alaska Mystery
No, not Sarah Palin, though she is quite an enigma. This past week a section of beach along the Alaska coast rose 20 feet silently and smoothly overnight.
Scientists claim to be baffled since it would have taken a quake of at least 7.0 to thrust up land to that degree. No quakes were reported that day there.
In brilliant cover up style so typical of the USGS, it was announced that this was a result of a landslide that happened......12,000 years ago! Come on! They can do better than that! It is as bad as when they claimed the quakes in Massachusetts last year were aftershocks from a quake 300 years ago.
However, this sudden rise at the beach may have been caused by deep episodic tremors, like we have seen near Seattle and in California. The quakes are slow and very deep, not felt at the surface. They always indicate that deformation is occurring deep beneath the surface and eventually causes land changes on top. leading to major quakes. I suppose Alaskans will find out soon enough.