Talk:Iben Browning

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[edit] Astounding?

Why is it "astounding" that a large earthquake can occur so far inland? Earthquakes are caused by the shift of geological plates and have nothing to do with proximity to the shoreline... right?

Yes, it should not be that it is inland, but distant from a tectonic boundary. The fact that the New Madrid Earthquakes occured inland had little to do with their astounding qualities (think of inland earthquakes in India), however, because the area where the earthquake occured had older, colder bedrock than coastal California, the Earthquake was able to propogate much farther than an equivalent EQ on the San Andreas Fault. JKillah 14:33, 15 February 2006 (UTC)