Coincidence is the only connection between Pacific earthquakes
October 2nd, 2009
Various : Two earthquakes caused devastation across the Pacific earlier this week. One, based off the coast of Samoa caused a tsunami, the other, near Sumatra, was so deep that no tsunami occurred, but the loss of life on the surrounding area may be greater. “The chances of there being a connection between these two earthquakes is extremely slim,” said University of Ulster geophysicist John McCloskey, told the London Times . The 10,000 km distance between the quakes and the orientation of
