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A 3 page paper on the geology of the northeastern United States and the extremely serious -- although unlikely -- earthquake that could occur with respect to Cameron's Line (Bronx area), the prevalence red brownstone and red sandstone in the Palisades, and NYC's location a long a major tectonic plate. Specific locations for the possible earthquake and its resulting damage are described in considerable detail. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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3 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_Quakesnj.doc
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reportedly feels the ground shift across half a billion years to produce a future earthquake. And indeed, here a most frightening fact is reported : New York City is located
right in the middle of a tectonic plate. This is different from Californias placement as that earthquake-prone state is only on a "continental rift" said to have been formed
by the separation of the American and the European and African continents. According to experts, about 400 million years ago, Africa collided with North America, and engulfed a former ocean
called the Iapetus Ocean, in what the New Yorker article says geologists named "subduction." As this process drew to its completion, it left behind a suturelike geological formation known as
Camerons Line, which reportedly runs right through the Bronx, down the East River, past Gracie Mansion, beneath the Queensboro Bridge, through Staten Island, and all the way down nearly one
thousand miles to Charleston, South Carolina. According to what I learned, red brownstone and red sandstone which can be found in the Palisades is the same
as that of a very large known set of rift valleys in Central Africa. Here in the Greater New York City Metropolitan area, we have similar rifts of within
our rock. And these rifts share another frightening trait: a strong inclination to produce earthquakes of magnitude 7 or 7.5. A 7.2 earthquake -2- in Grand
Banks, Newfoundland, quake was on this rift. (Occurred in 1929) And so was a previous 7.3 quake Charleston, South Carolina during the year 1886. As geologic history
tells us, as the glaciers retreated after the Ice Age, they left behind small valleys in the fault zones. These are valleys that New Yorkers can still see today.
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