https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbKSkGoCP1M&
This is a huge breakthrough discovery which confirms something which I’ve discussed for almost 2 years, which is the Lithosphere / Asthenosphere boundary layer causing tectonic movement to occur over large areas.
I was called “crazy” and even had more disparaging things said than that 🙂 … now it is confirmed via underground seismic measurements made by teams of professionals, who specifically tested (and determined) that the Asthenosphere seismic response indicates tectonic movement above.
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From the study:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/…
“Plate tectonics successfully describes the surface of Earth as a mosaic of moving lithospheric plates. But it is not clear what happens at the base of the plates, the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary (LAB). The LAB has been well imaged with converted teleseismic waves1, 2, whose 10-40-kilometre wavelength controls the structural resolution. Here we use explosion-generated seismic waves (of about 0.5-kilometre wavelength) to form a high-resolution image for the base of an oceanic plate that is subducting beneath North Island, New Zealand.”
Main stream media report:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02…
“Scientists have long known that the Earth’s crust consists of at least 15 tectonic plates-continent-sized slabs of rock on the surface of the Earth that shift about to create mountains, volcanoes, and earthquake zones. But the exact mechanism by which the plates move has remained a mystery.
Until now.
A new study suggests that the plates glide about on a six-mile-thick hidden channel of “soft” rock located between the base of the plates and the upper portion of the Earth’s mantle (the layer of molten rock above the planet’s core), Live Science reported.
“The idea that Earth’s surface consists of a mosaic of moving plates is a well-established scientific paradigm, but it had never been clear about what actually moves the plates around,” study co-author Dr. Tim Stern, a professor of geography, environment and earth sciences at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, said in a written statement. “To work this out requires an understanding of what happens at the bottom of a tectonic plate.”
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Link to the most recent earthquake update / forecast from February 19 2015 here:
[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnVJCVCj9XU[/url]