Talk:Intraplate earthquake

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This is junk science. How do we get rid of it? The author has no idea what plate tectonics is. (I can't wait for the discussion of dinner plate tectonics vs. salad plate tectonics). The citation of intraplate earthquakes is just an incorrect mapping. Next this author will be discussing the Pacific "ring of fire." CITE YOUR SOURCES (other than the scholars of Bob Jones U.) Rich J 02:10 5 Jun 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Um, not to be too much of a nitpick...

...but how is it possible that an earthquake in Mardid in 1812 registered on the Richter scale? (Assuming that this is the measurement given on the page...)? The Richter scale wasn't even invented until 1935, at least, according to wikipedia.org.

Thanks!

- Sammy —Preceding unsigned comment added by SammyJames (talk • contribs) 02:57, 24 October 2006

The Richter scale bit was an after the fact estimate based on damage and effects.
I've added some external links (from a quick Google search) for use as references for a much needed rewrite of this somewhat rambling essay. Vsmith 11:22, 24 October 2006 (UTC)




--- Um, first of all MOST earthquakes that occur are at fault lines (which is the name giving to plate boundaries, and is completely contradicted in this article). Most earthquakes ARE NOT intraplate earthquakes - in fact, they are relatively few and far between. Someone who knows something about plate techtonics really needs to rewrite this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.253.138.90 (talk) 20:53, 3 November 2007 (UTC)