[kj] (OT) Chile Quake & Paranoia

[folk devil]

Somewhat paranoid about dwelling in California currently, considering the closeness of relevant tectonic plates:
http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/infopage/tectonic.gif

"The Nazca Plate, named after the Nazca region of southern Peru, is an oceanic tectonic plate in the eastern Pacific Ocean basin off the west coast of South America. The ongoing subduction along the Peru-Chile Trench of the Nazca Plate under the South American Plate is largely responsible for the Andean orogeny. The Nazca Plate is bound to the west to the Pacific Plate and to the south with the Antarctic Plate through the East Pacific Rise and the Chile Rise respectively. The movement of the Nazca Plate over several hotspots has created some volcanic islands as well as east-west running seamount
chains that subduct under South America. Nazca is a relatively young
plate both in terms of age of rocks and existence as independent plate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazca_Plate"

The Chile quake also shifted the Earth's axis:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/03/100302-chile-earthquake-earth-axis-shortened-day/
Like the 2004 Sumatran quake..




 		 	   		  
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