Dead_Moe_Green
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With the increased earthquake activity, do you think Guam is
likely to get a big jolt anytime soon? How stable do you think the Mariana subduction zone is? Guam is protected by a reef system that encircles most of the island, so I would think that it would have a tendency to reduce the chances of an Indonesian/Thailand -style disaster. What do you think?
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Re: With the increased earthquake activity, do you think Guam is
| Quoting Dead_Moe_Green - posted on 12/2/2005 at 22:45 |
likely to get a big jolt anytime soon? How stable do you think the Mariana subduction zone is? Guam is protected by a reef system that encircles most of the island, so I would think that it would have a tendency to reduce the chances of an Indonesian/Thailand -style disaster. What do you think?
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Hello and welcome to the forum.
I would think its stable because of the two types of plates that make up that zone. One is denser then the other, the less dense one being on top. |
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Glad to hear it
They get a considerable amount of earthquake activity, but I think for the most part the problem remains typhons. I know they had a super typhoon back in the 1970s with wind gusts over 200 mph....that was a big one.
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Magnitude 5.8
Date-Time Tuesday, January 3, 2006 at 12:27:58 (UTC)
= Coordinated Universal Time
Tuesday, January 3, 2006 at 10:27:58 PM
= local time at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location 13.921°N, 145.252°E
Depth 80.8 km (50.2 miles)
Region GUAM REGION
Distances
25 km (15 miles) SSE of Rota, Northern Mariana Islands
75 km (45 miles) NE of HAGATNA, Guam
150 km (95 miles) SSW of SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands |
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