#Why Midwest Earthquakes
28-Jan-95 20:31:02
Sb: #164886-#Why Midwest Earthquakes
Fm: christopher . visc 75464,27
To: Leland A. Dolan 71271,1175
Leland-
The movement of the north american plate is not all released at the plate
boundary. There is stress throughout the plate and some can re released within
a plate. Another more interesting possibility is that there is actually a
plate boundary lurking around on the east coast. This idea is not all that
popular with the hard-core plate tectonic crowd. Try reading "In suspect
terrain' by George McPhee. He raises some interesting questions. Chris