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[CreekDog]

83. The simple fact is PamW said specifically that there aren't subduction zones off California --false

and all I have to do is paste her quote here and the only way you can attempt to make it true is to say that she meant something she didn't say.

PamW (1,199 posts)
72. Interject some science..

CreekDog,

If I may, I'd like to interject some science into this.

The faults in Japan at the western end of the Pacific tectonic plate, are different than the faults at the eastern end next to California.

Japan has subduction faults that slip vertically. That's the type of fault that gives you a lot of up/down motion in an earthquake, and that's the type of motion that causes tsunamis.

Contrarily, the California coastal faults slip horizontally in an earthquake, and generate side-to-side motions; so their tsunami generating potential is minimal.

PamW

don't say "nit picking" to me when you try to explain her three sentences away by saying in several paragraphs that what she really meant to do was talk about the Pacific plate boundary being strike slip and having less severe tsunami potential than subduction zones. you are saying she definitely was writing about the Pacific Plate boundary and NOT the Juan de Fuca plate boundary, the latter having a subduction zone and being TOTALLY IRRELEVANT to this conversation because it IS, on average, about 100 miles away from the Pacific Plate boundary. being 100 miles away, roughly, makes it totally irrelevant to a discussion of earthquakes and tsunamis in California.

what BS.

oh, and she didn't say that. you needed a page to make it seem credible that's what she meant.