not sure about the date. this happened around the 20th? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTCRPxAco5Q there was also a big earthquake Poster of the South Georgia Island Region Earthquake of 19 August 2016 - Magnitude 7.4
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/poster/2016/20160819.php The August 19, 2016 M 7.4 earthquake east of South Georgia Island, in the South Atlantic Ocean, occurred as the result of shallow thrust faulting near the plate boundary between the South America and Scotia plates. In this region, the South America plate subducts to the west-southwest beneath the Scotia Plate and the South Sandwich Island Arc, mainly south and east of the epicenter of todays quake along the South Sandwich Trench. To the west of this event, near South Georgia Island, the Scotia-South America plate boundary is represented by the North Scotia Ridge, a left-lateral transform fault. At the location of this earthquake, the South America plate moves towards the west-southwest with respect to the Scotia plate at a rate of just 9 mm/yr. Rates of subduction along the South Sandwich Trench are in excess of 65 mm/yr, but slow in the region of the August 19th earthquake due to back-arc spreading along the East Scotia Ridge, just east of this event. The focal mechanism solution of this earthquake indicates southwest-oriented thrust faulting, consistent with occurring along the plate boundary interface between the South America and Scotia Sea (and South Sandwich micro-) plates.
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the dreamer..
yah might wanna stay off this page many of my dreams are nightmares been like this almost all my life.. Categories
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