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Is the Orlando Sentinel mainstream newspaper a clone of the National Enquirer? Here's the outlandish claim I just saw about how the Japanese quake changed water levels in FLORIDA.
The devastating earthquake that shook Japan caused a temporary jolt in groundwater levels throughout much of Florida, officials said.
The South Florida Water Management District reports that a network of groundwater gauges registered a jump of up to three inches in the water table from Orlando to the Florida Keys about 34 minutes after the quake struck on March 11.
...Changes in groundwater levels were also seen in South Florida after the Haiti and Chile earthquakes. Wdowinski said a 20-foot rise was seen after a 9.2 earthquake in Alaska in 1964.
Is this for real? If so, why didn't what happened in Japan trigger the overdue (by ten years or so) Cascadian Subduction Zone earthquake on its way to Florida??? Or change any water levels in the Pacific Northwest?
I'm having a hard time believing this but, well, science wasn't my strong suit in school. Is this just supposition?
Yes, a strong quake in one location could have repercussions in other areas of the world. We live on plates that are constantly pushing, pulling, compressing, and slipping against each other.
That's alot to loose, especially for homeowners whom live on the coast. The same thing is happening here in MA on the Cape, it's just disappearing little by little, how sad...actually the whole coast going North is losing feet...when I buy my new house it certainly won't be near the coast, but close enough to drive to!
Well, Florida is basically just a big swampy sand bar with a high water table poking out into the ocean. Earthquake effects could be more pronounced there than rockier & higher elevations.
Several years ago, following a large Alaskan quake,
I was sitting outside smokin' a cigar on my back
deck overlooking the bayou and the canal I lived on.
All of a sudden waves started traveling down the
canal. At first I thought it was a boat wake from
the bayou, but there were no boats. The waves
got bigger and peaked at over two feet. Boats
were knocked around and several people had
boards knocked loose from their docks.
Nobody knew what it was and everyone was
quite startled. I found out that night that it
was a Seiche.
The energy traveled through the earth and came
up under South Louisiana. I saw on the news
peoples' pools were sloshing back and forth.
I'm glad I happened to be sitting there to see it.
Thanks, Speleo, for your explanation of a fascinating water movement phenomenon I had never heard of before! Thanks also for the other comments and ideas.
I wonder if the earth scientist community has ever done a study on whether seiche-like events can be triggers for quakes so many thousands of miles from the originating event.
The idea that the quake in Japan is affecting water movement in Florida makes me wonder what OTHER effects it might be causing.
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Or change any water levels in the Pacific Northwest?
