The town that drowned

[Marcus Bryant]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...misanriku.html

[Viva Las Espuelas]

"Force of quake shifts Japan 8ft to the East"

WW

[Wild Cobra]

Rather than it being the force of the quake, the quake was from the movement of plates. I would say it was normal tectonic activity. There has to be actual plate upper movement from time to time as the plates slide under one another.

[Yonivore]

Rather than it being the force of the quake, the quake was from the movement of plates. I would say it was normal tectonic activity. There has to be actual plate upper movement from time to time as the plates slide under one another.

Yeah, but usually it isn't 8 feet at a time.

[Wild Cobra]

Yeah, but usually it isn't 8 feet at a time.

Of course not. Normally millimeters or centimeters. But at some time the pressure builds up enough to do such things. Sure, such movement is rare, but not unexpected on the timescale the earth has been around. Like I say on occasion, facts make statistics, statistics don't make facts. Just because we have never samples such data before does not mean it is impossible. The degree on movement would be filtered out on a nominal 3 sigma data set. Probably take a 5 or 6 sigma data set to keep this one for statistical purposes.

[ChumpDumper]

Rather than it being the force of the quake, the quake was from the movement of plates. I would say it was normal tectonic activity. There has to be actual plate upper movement from time to time as the plates slide under one another.

So how is that different from saying "Force of quake shifts Japan 8ft to the East"?

[Nbadan]

REMARKABLE things happening in Chiba City Japan

[MaNuMaNiAc]

So how is that different from saying "Force of quake shifts Japan 8ft to the East"?

It isn't, WC often types just to hear the keystrokes

[boutons_deux]

About the same as the Gulf coast after Ike and Katrina:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/ja...eforeafter.htm

[Wild Cobra]

It isn't, WC often types just to hear the keystrokes

Technically, there is a difference. I won't bother explaining because it's probably above you guy's heads.