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Ice shelf falls off, anybody check for Earthquakes
05/04/09 12:51 Filed in: Personal
BBC news is reporting the mysterious and worrying collapse of the Wilkins Ice Shelf bridge yesterday, 4th April.
It’s a climate change story... sorry, we are back to ‘global warming’ again.
I wandered over the USGS, that’s the United States Geological Survey website and sure enough there is a report of an earthquake in the magnitude of 5.4 in the region of the collapse on the given period it did so. Last Friday there was another earthquake of 5.2 in a similar spot.
OK, so they are not RIGHT ON TOP of the collapse. But as the ice was described as being brittle, I don’t think it would have taken much to cause the shift.
Kind of reminds me of the Mount Fuji photo on “The Inconvenient Truth”. Mount Fuji being a volcano and all... sometimes it does loose it’s snowy cover.
Funny how embedded science is these days.
It’s a climate change story... sorry, we are back to ‘global warming’ again.
I wandered over the USGS, that’s the United States Geological Survey website and sure enough there is a report of an earthquake in the magnitude of 5.4 in the region of the collapse on the given period it did so. Last Friday there was another earthquake of 5.2 in a similar spot.
OK, so they are not RIGHT ON TOP of the collapse. But as the ice was described as being brittle, I don’t think it would have taken much to cause the shift.
Kind of reminds me of the Mount Fuji photo on “The Inconvenient Truth”. Mount Fuji being a volcano and all... sometimes it does loose it’s snowy cover.
Funny how embedded science is these days.