Re: SSD is wrong ?!!

[Chairman Gonzalo <hobbs@lclark.edu>]

On Tue, 11 Apr 1995, Maddog wrote:

> > 
>    The reason that this is not a problem is that earthquakes (and 
> volcanoes) only happen along the fault lines between tectonic plates.  
> SSD says that the cannisters would be placed in the center of the abyssal 
> plains which are in the center of the tectonic plates under the ocean.  
> These areas have been geologically stable for 65 million years.
> 

Sorry Steve, but that's not true.  Major earthquakes do concentrate along 
tectonic fault lines, but there are other fault lines that geologists 
still haven't figured out why they're there.  Probably the strongest 
earthquake in the USA (ever) was the New Madrid quake in Missouri.  
Remember-- the one that made the Mississippi run backwards and church 
bells ring in Massachusetts?  Geological justifications for SSD don't 
comfort me.  Mother Nature tends toward chaos more often than not.

(PS: Ocean plates are even more unstable than land plates, due to their 
decreased thickness.  Undersea vents pop up all over the place regardless 
of fault lines.)

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