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Earthquakes Work Their Way to Wichita, Kansas
Source info:
| Author: | Harold Asmis |
|---|---|
| Date: | 2014-09-08 16:49:00 |
| Blog: | Ontario-geofish  |
| URL: | http://ontario-geofish.blogspot.com/2014/09/earthquakes-work-their-way-to-wichita.html |
Summary:
Poor Kansas, like a deer in the headlights. They are just experiencing the stress disturbance zone, of the OK Mechanism #2. Since nobody in the US knows what is happening geologically in the next state, they are at a loss. Nobody in the world has such severe Geological Balkanization. This was an M3.9, and since they have no seismometers there, we have no focal solution. Most likely aContent analysis:
Geographic context:
| Location | Country | Latitude | Longitude |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas | US | 38.4981 | -98.3202 |
| Wichita | US | 37.691 | -97.3406 |
| Earthquakes | NZ | -44.8777 | 170.619 |
Keywords:
deer, Earthquakes, focal solution, headlights, Kansas Poor Kansas, loss, OK Mechanism, seismometers, severe Geological Balkanization, state, stress disturbance zone, Way, Wichita, world
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