Yet another earthquake

Kor · **Reply #20 on:** March 11, 2010, 08:30:17 PM

It does seem so. I wonder if they are connected in some geological manner.

Mirumoto_Kenjiro · **Reply #21 on:** March 11, 2010, 10:29:32 PM

I heard the death toll in Turkey from the quake is 41. And I agree that some of the causes of death include most of the buildings made in those areas being sub-standard compared to other countries in terms of "quake-proof". And I would not be surprised if one earthquake could have started some sort of ripple effect with the tectonic land plates. If one plate shifted out of alignment, perhaps it caused some of the other plates to shift and spark earthquakes in other areas. That's just a theory of mine picturing the plates moving up and down a sea of magma. I almost got someone seasick explaining it...

Kor · **Reply #22 on:** March 11, 2010, 11:31:06 PM

That's how I understand it and could see the possibility of there maybe being some sort of connection between the earthquakes. Though I'm no geologist.

Chiletrek · **Reply #23 on:** March 12, 2010, 05:16:27 PM

Hello:
I am not a geologist either, but it may be just an increased activity on the Earth but without really making all earthquakes to be related.
Even though we must remember that what is making the plates to move as they are doing now is the huge separation that is making the Atlantic ocean bigger as they push everything else to their sides.