Um, I’m guessing not too many people were carrying EQ coverage in Haiti?
I didn’t even know this was a region for EQ potential. Does Florida have EQ exposure?
(sorry if that is a dumb question)
Another dumb question. Is there any correlation (or suspicion) that there was a 6.5 in California, and then a 7.0 in Haiti less than a week later? Is 2010 going to show increased EQ activity?
Al, does it have anything to do with global warming?
There have been some Haitians posting photos on twitter; very sad, the damage looks to be extensive.
I think there’s a general perception that eq-prone regions are overdue for some activity. A few years back when I handled Utah we were seeing a lot more requests for the coverage than we used to. Similarly in Missouri.
The Midwest has a large fault as well; we only hear about California. Michigan agents should be selling EQ; we had a small tremor last year which should be a wake up call to at least offer the coverage to prevent an E&O.
This fault does not run up the east coast thankfully – here’s an excerpt from a Mimai article explaining about the Caribbean plate…
The actual quake appears to have occurred along the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden Fault, a virtually immovable rock that runs from Montego Bay in Jamaica to the southern part of the island of Hispaniola, which Haiti shares with the Dominican Republic. That vertical fault is pushed by the Caribbean Plate, a unsettled land mass that moves about 20 millimeters east each year.
According to Paul Mann, a research scientist at the University of Texas in Austin, the plates have been pushing against the fault since a major quake in 1760. On Tuesday, the plates got the fault to move.
What the plate did to the fault is akin to a human trying to move a grand piano across a floor, Draper said. The person will push and push with no effect — then, the piano will suddenly slip forward.
Such movement is relatively small compared with plates moving underground in California, Draper said. The effect would be less-frequent earthquakes, but relatively large ones when they do occur.
The slip Tuesday appears to have occurred around six miles below the earth, Draper said, resulting in the large earthquake. The closer the slip is to the surface, the bigger the quake.
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Um, I’m guessing not too many people were carrying EQ coverage in Haiti?
I didn’t even know this was a region for EQ potential. Does Florida have EQ exposure?
(sorry if that is a dumb question)
Another dumb question. Is there any correlation (or suspicion) that there was a 6.5 in California, and then a 7.0 in Haiti less than a week later? Is 2010 going to show increased EQ activity?
Al, does it have anything to do with global warming?
There have been some Haitians posting photos on twitter; very sad, the damage looks to be extensive.
I think there’s a general perception that eq-prone regions are overdue for some activity. A few years back when I handled Utah we were seeing a lot more requests for the coverage than we used to. Similarly in Missouri.
The Midwest has a large fault as well; we only hear about California. Michigan agents should be selling EQ; we had a small tremor last year which should be a wake up call to at least offer the coverage to prevent an E&O.
Um,Ah,ahem had a very good question. This is the largest earthquake I’ve ever heard of this far east. Does this fault extend up the east coast?????
This fault does not run up the east coast thankfully – here’s an excerpt from a Mimai article explaining about the Caribbean plate…
The actual quake appears to have occurred along the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden Fault, a virtually immovable rock that runs from Montego Bay in Jamaica to the southern part of the island of Hispaniola, which Haiti shares with the Dominican Republic. That vertical fault is pushed by the Caribbean Plate, a unsettled land mass that moves about 20 millimeters east each year.
According to Paul Mann, a research scientist at the University of Texas in Austin, the plates have been pushing against the fault since a major quake in 1760. On Tuesday, the plates got the fault to move.
What the plate did to the fault is akin to a human trying to move a grand piano across a floor, Draper said. The person will push and push with no effect — then, the piano will suddenly slip forward.
Such movement is relatively small compared with plates moving underground in California, Draper said. The effect would be less-frequent earthquakes, but relatively large ones when they do occur.
The slip Tuesday appears to have occurred around six miles below the earth, Draper said, resulting in the large earthquake. The closer the slip is to the surface, the bigger the quake.